Newsweek International articles from October 2006

Newsweek International archives from October 2006

Mail Call.(Letter to the editor)
October 2, 2006... Readers of our July 31 cover story took President Bush to task for his "failed policies and arrogant attitudes." Another said, "The 'Weight of the World' is on the citizens of Lebanon, Israel and Iraq who have been killed, maimed and blasted...

Open the Doors; The European Union will soon admit Bulgaria and Romania. Will that be the end of enlargement? Not at all. Hello, Albania!
October 2, 2006... Byline: Andrew Moravcsik (Moravcsik directs the European Union Program at Princeton University.) Riots in Hungary? Rising anti-Europe sentiment across Eastern Europe? A resounding "no" to a new constitution in France and the Netherlands,...

Eastern Europe: Backsliding? An arc of crisis is developing in the East.
October 2, 2006... Byline: William Underhill Shades of 1956. It began with a mass rally. Then a stone-throwing mob of right-wingers and hoodlums broke into the offices of MTV, Hungary's national TV station, demanding the government's resignation. "It is...

A Generation In Waiting; As Britain's Labour Party gathers to consider its future, the biggest challenge is to hold together.
October 2, 2006... Byline: Stryker McGuire The papers have long portrayed them as spear carriers in enemy camps. David Miliband serves one master, Prime Minister Tony Blair. Douglas Alexander serves another, Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown. Yet...

Insiders Looking Out; Young Asian-American artists show that they are firmly in touch with all of their many cultural roots.
October 2, 2006... Byline: Vibhuti Patel The 17 young artists represented in a dazzling new show at New York's Asia Society all have roots in Asia. But all grew up in the United States and display little nostalgia for any abandoned homeland or lost way of...

The Human Face of War; Henry Moore captures the anguish on the home front.
October 2, 2006... Byline: Ginanne Brownell Throughout the centuries war-related art has juxtaposed beauty and grace with destruction and grief; the images compel and repel at the same time. Francisco Goya's painting "The Third of May" captures the serene...

The Quiet Coup; The Army's power grab was bloodless, but that doesn't mean that democracy hasn't suffered a blow.(Thaksin Shinawatra)
October 2, 2006... Byline: George Wehrfritz (With Sonia Kolesnikov-Jessop in Singapore and Joe Cochrane in Jakarta) The image is steeped in irony. As tanks rolled into Bangkok to overthrow his six-year-old government on the night of Sept. 19, Thai Prime...

Unlovely Landslide; Scandal-scarred Lula is heading for victory, but his honeymoon could be short.
October 2, 2006... Byline: Mac Margolis As scandals go, this one had a little of everything. There was the shadowy backwoods businessman flogging a purportedly explosive secret "dossier." Standing by were two bagmen holed up in a cheap hotel room with bricks...

Interview: 'I Know the Problem'; The beleaguered Afghan president takes aim at his critics.(Hamid Karzai)(Interview)
October 2, 2006... Byline: Fareed Zakaria Afghan President Hamid Karzai spoke with NEWSWEEK's Fareed Zakaria at a meeting of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York last week. Excerpts: ZAKARIA: Why is the Taliban making a comeback? KARZAI:...

Gambling: Land of the Racing Son; Deep Impact has the frenzied hopes of Japan, and its horse-racing industry, riding on his back in Paris.
October 2, 2006... Byline: Emily Flynn Vencat It is difficult to imagine a more classically European event than the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe. Since 1920, Europe's elite have gathered around Paris's Longchamps Racetrack to drink champagne and gamble at the...

What We Must Do Now; Success is possible. But make no mistake. We are not winning.
October 2, 2006... Byline: Wesley K. Clark (General Clark, former Supreme Commander of NATO and a 2004 U.S. presidential candidate, teaches at the Burkle Center for International Relations at UCLA.) In the immediate aftermath of 9/11, U.S. forces achieved a...

The Real Thing: Coca; Andean entrepreneurs are pushing coca beyond cola, in new teas, toothpaste, shampoo, liquor and more.
October 2, 2006... Byline: Jimmy Langman Bolivian president Evo Morales implored the United Nations last week to give the coca leaf a new life. A former coca farmer himself, Morales asked the General Assembly to focus on coca's possible future as the raw...

Our Cellphone Future; Japan's handsets are already the world's most advanced. Now they're about to get even better.
October 2, 2006... Byline: Brad Stone and Akiko Kashiwagi A great majority of the world's 2 billion mobile-phone users would probably blink in jealous awe at an advanced Japanese mobile phone like Sharp's recent hit, the 905SH. The handset, made for wireless...

The 'Reel' Story; A rash of biographical films promise to reveal the lives of the infamous and the obscure, the loved and the loathed.
October 2, 2006... Byline: Ginanne Brownell Think of the Bronte sisters and what comes to mind? Images of desolate moors and drafty evenings spent, quill in hand, at a desk before flickering candles. And what about Jane Austen, the original doyenne of chick...

Little Help in Sight.(peacekeeping forces efforts in Sudan)
October 2, 2006

Winning Hearts and Minds; The new war in Lebanon is a propaganda battle--and Hizbullah is coming out on top. Some tips from a master.
October 2, 2006... Byline: Kevin Peraino It's a cliche to say that Islamists are skilled at winning Mideast hearts and minds. But even some Israeli officials acknowledge that they're being outmaneuvered by Hizbullah in the ongoing battle for international...

'Defending Our Honor'.(Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at U.N. General Assembly)(Interview)
October 2, 2006... Byline: Lally Weymouth Like a few other state leaders at last week's U.N. General Assembly in New York, Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is on poor terms with the United States. Ahmadinejad remains intransigent in his refusal to halt...

Going in for The Big Kill; There's much to be learned from the hunting habits of the big cats. For one, the king of the jungle knows how to conserve energy.
October 2, 2006... Byline: Ruchir Sharma (Sharma is head of Global Emerging Markets at Morgan Stanley Investment Management.) There's an old folk tale about a king who prepares his son for the throne by sending him into the jungle, repeatedly. At first, the...

The Good Life; Our weekly guide to the best in travel, fashion, food, design, technology and more.
October 2, 2006... Byline: Emily Flynn Vencat (Rebecca Hall Sonia Kolesnikov-Jessop George Hackett) Travel: Finding Fall's Best Foliage By Rebecca Hall Everyone knows there's no place like New England, blessed with abundant sugar-maple trees and...

Perspectives.
October 2, 2006... Byline: Quotation sources: New York Times, Reuters, CBS, AP, Independent, AP "The Devil came here yesterday." Venezuelan President Hugo ChAvez, referring to U.S. President George W. Bush while making the sign of the cross, at the U.N....

Periscope.(Russian oil companies)(investigation in Hewlett Packard)(United States. Central Intelligence Agency officials and contractors could face legal charges in Germany)
October 2, 2006... Byline: Owen Matthews and Anna Nemtsova (- Nisid Hajari, Managing Editor Brad Stone Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball Michael Hastings Tony Dokoupil Niki Gostin Niki Gostin) Russia: Grasping Hands Could Russia, for years perceived as...

Taking Hostages.
October 2, 2006... Byline: Allan Madrid Imagine a virus that invades your computer and seizes your files, not releasing them until you send money to an anonymous online account. The hackers could be anywhere in the world, and all the police can do is file a...

Graceful Injuries.(possibility of pelvic repetitive injuries to ballet dancers can be predicted by using magnetic-resonance imaging)(Brief article)
October 2, 2006... Byline: - Benjamin Sutherland Fouette, saute, jete, hospital stay? Ballet movements lead to injuries in almost half of professional dancers over 40, according to the University Hospital of Geneva in Switzerland. Most are pelvic repetitive...

Mail Call.(Letter to the editor)
October 9, 2006... Beyond the War Readers saw deeper implications in the recently concluded Lebanon conflict. One declared the fighting a proxy war between America and Iran. Another agreed: "Israel may yet have to extend the war to Iran and Syria, if only to...

Sunny, Modern, Morocco; Don't look now, but a bit of Europe has come to the Maghreb. What next--full-fledged EU membership?
October 9, 2006... Byline: Emily Flynn Vencat Leila Ahlaloum, 25, is the very image of a modern European career woman. She works as a manager in a chic hotel, goes clubbing most weekends and, like many singletons, is on the prowl for Mr. Right. With her...

Big Big Problem; Despite billions in profits, the majors are full of gloom, warning of steadily rising costs and lower prices.(Cover story)
October 9, 2006... Byline: Rana Faroohar Under the 11-year leadership of Lord John Browne, BP cultivated a reputation as a different kind of oil company, kinder and gentler on everything from the environment to the issue of women in its work force. Browne...

That Falling Feeling; As the myth of endless Chinese demand is exposed and heavy investment boosts supply, prices at the pump could plummet further.
October 9, 2006... Byline: Leonardo Maugeri (Maugeri is senior vice president of strategies and development at Eni SpA and author of the book "The Age of Oil: The Mythology, History, and Future of the World's Most Controversial Resource.") Understanding the...

Hong Kong: Roll Over, Adam Smith; The city's leader isn't changing, but his philosophy may be.
October 9, 2006... Byline: George Wehrfritz In 1995, Hong Kong's then financial chief Donald Tsang defended the city's laissez-faire philosophy with a reference to Greek mythology. He cast the government as Odysseus, hero of the Trojan War, who defied the...

Reconstruction: An American University; A bastion of U.S.-style higher learning arises in Kurdistan. The hope is that it will be fully Iraqi.
October 9, 2006... Byline: Malak Hamwi Iraqi higher education has been on a downward trajectory for decades due to war, dictatorship and isolation. But now the American University of Iraq, soon to rise in the Kurdish city of Sulaymaniyah, hopes to reverse...

Beijing Battle; The ouster of Shanghai's powerful party chief may be the first salvo in the battle for supremacy among the next generation of chinese leaders.
October 9, 2006... Byline: Jonathan Ansfield (With Melinda Liu in Beijing) The ouster of Shanghai Communist Party chief Chen Liangyu last week could have come straight out of a Hollywood mafia flick. The frictions between the bumptious Chen and President Hu...

The Allure of the Taboo; Artifacts from Polynesia recall ancient spirituality.
October 9, 2006... Byline: Tara Pepper When Christian missionaries arrived in Polynesia in 1797, their monotheistic faith spread rapidly among the islanders, displacing ancient and colorful indigenous beliefs. Until then, Polynesian gods governed every...

Profiting in Pieces; Thriving after the bust-up, surviving units of Daewoo spark a rethink of what went wrong at Korea Inc.
October 9, 2006... Byline: B. J. LEE In late 1999, in the aftermath of the Asian financial crisis, Daewoo Group was considered all but dead by the international financial community. More than $30 billion in debt, South Korea's second largest conglomerate...

The Premiere of Rome; Hollywood on the Tiber finally gets its own film festival. And Venice is not at all happy about it.
October 9, 2006... Byline: Barbie Nadeau In one of the most captivating scenes from the 1953 Oscar-winning movie "Roman Holiday," a young Audrey Hepburn hops on a Vespa and weaves through the ancient cobblestone streets of Rome. With Gregory Peck hanging on...

The Mystery Prime Minister; Abe's challenge is to convince the Japanese of the idea that he is cerebral and strategic, whereas Koizumi acted mostly on instinct.
October 9, 2006... Byline: Gerry Curtis (Curtis is a professor of political science at Columbia University.) The Japanese don't quite know what to make of their new prime minister, Shinzo Abe--and with good reason. There isn't much in his background to...

Fed Up With Kim? Everybody is exasperated with North Korea's capricious leader--including his allies in Beijing.
October 9, 2006... Byline: Christian Caryl and B. J. Lee (With Sarah Schafter in Beijin and Akiko Kashiwagi in Tokyo) Nobody likes dealing with Kim Jong Il anymore, including those countries closestto Pyongyang. South Korea, which has for years tried to...

Corruption Probes: Life ... At Club Fed; Beset by cadres on the take, party leaders are building plush accomodations for top suspects.
October 9, 2006... Byline: Melinda Liu (With Duncan Hewitt in Shanghai) In the countryside outside Beijing, what looks like a luxury guesthouse is rising amid fruit orchards, replete with a fitness center and individual villas. Of course, the construction...

Blacksnake's Lair; From deep in the hills, Kurdish rebels are stirring up Turkey and Iran, and threatening the one calm part of Iraq.(Murat Karayilan)
October 9, 2006... Byline: Michael Hastings (With Owen Matthews and Sami Kohen in Istanbul and Michael Hirsh in Washington) Murat Karayilan prefers to travel in darkness. Under cover of a starry night, the Kurdish guerrilla chief's white Nissan Pathfinder...

World View: A World of Liberty and Law; Our own founders focused on the 'combined blessings of order and liberty'. Elections cannot be the only tool in our toolbox to promote democracy.
October 9, 2006... Byline: G. John Ikenberry and Anne-Marie Slaughter (G. John Ikenberry Anne-Marie Slaughter are codirectors of the Princeton Project on National Security, which brought together almost 400 national-security experts over the past two and a half...

Germany Finds the Net; As the Internet swept the globe, Germany was on the outside looking in. Now, a belated move to deploy it.
October 9, 2006... Byline: Stephen Roach; Roach is the chief economist at Morgan Stanley Four years ago, there were whispers of revival in Japan. They came mainly from the business sector, where a massive restructuring was gathering momentum. They turned out...

Fashion: Scottish Style.
October 9, 2006... Byline: Rebecca Hall; Ginanne Brownnell; Nina Scott; Tara Weingarten Just because you lack a 'Mac' in front of your name doesn't mean you can't have a little of the Scottish Highlands this season. Plaid and cable-knit sweaters are...

Perspectives.
October 9, 2006... [Iraq] has become the 'cause celebre' for jihadists. An excerpt from a U.S. government intelligence report, some of which was declassified by President George W. Bush after parts of it leaked to the press "We're shooting ourselves in...

Periscope.
October 9, 2006... Byline: Owen Matthews; Jacopo Barigazzi; George Wehrfritz; Joseph Contreras Georgia: Russian Rumble Could Russia and Georgia soon be at war? After Georgian authorities arrested four Rus-sian military officers last week and charged them...

The Internet: Podcast Dissidents.
October 9, 2006... Byline: Steve Friess China has tried hard to keep Han Dongfang from communicating with the Chinese people. The democracy activist was jailed for 22 months and then forced to leave the mainland for organizing protests associated with the...

Arcades: Phoney Games.(Brief article)
October 9, 2006... Byline: B. J. LEE It's no accident that South Korea's videogame culture is unmatched--the government has promoted the industry vigorously. An unfortunate byproduct is now mushrooming: gambling casinos that masquerade as game arcades. About...

Technology: Artificial Hearts.(Dr. O. H. Frazier's innovation of artificial heart)(Brief article)
October 9, 2006... Byline: Karla Bruning Imagine life without a pulse. That's the future of cardiology, if Dr. O. H. Frazier has his way. The chief of cardiovascular transplantation and director of surgical research at the Texas Heart Institute has designed...

The Green Revolution.(Letter to the editor)
October 16, 2006... Thanks for your cover story "Going Green" (Aug. 14). But you shouldn't assume companies that switch from oil to a lower-cost alternative and investors who happen to invest in those companies necessarily do so to "do good" for the environment....

Why the Frogs Are Dying; Climate change is no longer merely a matter of numbers from a computer model. With startling swiftness, it is reordering the natural world.(Cover story)
October 16, 2006... Byline: Mac Margolis (With Lindsay Whipp in Monteverde, Karla Bruning in New York and Fernando De Freitas in Darwin, Australia) Draped like a verdant shawl over Costa Rica's TilarAn Mountains, the Monteverde cloud forest has long been a...

The Relics Return; In an understated yet triumphant display, Italy shows off some of the stolen artifacts recently won back from the Getty.(J. Paul Getty Museum)
October 16, 2006... Byline: Barbie Nadeau The dusty Via Garibaldi is about as trendy as it gets in the northwestern Sicilian village of Trapani, known mostly for its salt mines and ferry terminal. The narrow pedestrian street is the site of the daily...

The Chinese Are Coming; Expanding Chinese companies have finally discovered the Old World.
October 16, 2006... Byline: William Underhill (With Jessica Au in London, Jacopo Barigazzi and Barbie Nadeau in Rome, Mike Elkin in Madrid, Peter Green in Budapest and Stefan Theil in Berlin) The battlements are authentically medieval, the food distinctively...

War in the Caucasus? The dispute between Georgia and Russia has all the makings of a tragic conflict.
October 16, 2006... Byline: Anatol Lieven (Lieven is a senior fellow at the New America Foundation and author with John Hulsman of "Ethical Realism: A Vision for America's Role in the World.") Bad relations between Washington and Moscow are nothing new. But...

The Cold Peace; The 1979 Egyptian-Israeli treaty endures, 25 years after Sadat. But can it last much longer?
October 16, 2006... Byline: Christopher Dickey and Zvika Krieger The anniversary went almost unnoticed. There were no major commemorative events. Only a few perfunctory articles appeared in the Egyptian, Israeli and American press. A quarter century after the...

Oceans: Last Chance for Fish; New U.N. rules could be too little, too late.(Cover story)
October 16, 2006... Byline: Ginanne Brownell (With Jessica Au in London) Salt-codfish cakes with tapenade and fried oregano may be one of the healthier items on the lunch menu at the United Nations delegates' dining room in New York. But it's also one of the...

Conservation: Coming Back From the Brink; Environmentalists look to restore as well as preserve.(Cover story)
October 16, 2006... Byline: Stefan Theil A decade ago, the open-strip lignite pits of East Germany were an environmental disaster zone: hundreds of square kilometers of degraded land, toxic residues and acid lakes. Since then, a [euro][euro]7.8 billion...

Reefs: Coral's Faltering Partnership; The 'rainforests of the seas' may need to be saved, too.(Cover story)
October 16, 2006... Byline: Mac Margolis (With Fernando De Freitas in Darwin and Karla Bruning in New York) With their rainbow hues and the splendid variety of species they cater to, coral reefs are often called the rainforests of the seas. They might also be...

Interview: 'I Am Frustrated'; Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter looks back on the Camp David accords, and a quarter century of broken promises.(Interview)
October 16, 2006... Byline: Christopher Dickey The Camp David accords that U.S. President Jimmy Carter negotiated in 1978 between Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin were supposed to be the beginning of the end of the...

Art and a Cup of Joe; Cafes served as both studio and subject matter for an influential group of European artists.(More Than Coffee Was Served: Cafe Culture in Fin-de-Siecle Vienna and Weimar Germany)
October 16, 2006... Byline: Jennie Yabroff Starbucks may have popularized the notion of cafe-as-living-room, but students, artists and self-styled bohemians have been lingering over cooling cups of joe in public spaces for centuries. A delightful new exhibit...

Nests With No Birds; A starkly vivid memoir of life in Mao's China.(Feather in the Storm)(Book review)
October 16, 2006... Byline: Susan Szeliga Emily Wu grew up in Maoist China, a place where lives were steered by the political winds. But in her vivid new memoir, "Feather in the Storm" (336 pages. Pantheon Books), she gives those forces names and faces,...

North Korea: A Nuclear Threat; Is Kim Jong Il ready to provoke a regional crisis? An exclusive account of what Pyongyang really wants.
October 16, 2006... Byline: Selig S. Harrison (Selig S. Harrison, who just returned from his 10th visit to North Korea, is director of the Asia Program at the Center for International Policy in Washington.) On Sept. 19, 2005, North Korea signed a widely...

Growth or Happiness? Thailand's coup could derail a tiger economy.
October 16, 2006... Byline: George Wehrfritz When tanks rolled into Thailand's sprawling capital on Sept. 19, countless Bangkok dwellers celebrated the ouster of a leader many urbanites had come to despise. But what they perhaps didn't realize is that the...

Companies: Cultural Confusion; What goes around, comes around. It's China's turn.
October 16, 2006... Byline: Stefan Theil When they first entered China, many Western companies made costly mistakes. Not knowing the ropes, they underestimated the complexity of operating in such a huge domestic market, were blissfully unaware of the nuances...

Cowboys and Indians; For many artists, painting America's Wild West did not require actually seeing the place with their own eyes.(I like America - Fictions of the Wild West)
October 16, 2006... Byline: Stefan Theil The American West has always been a great canvas for the imagination--not just America's own but much of the world's. White Americans, naturally, still see themselves in the settler or cowboy, national icons for...

A True Diplomat.(South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki Moon)(Interview)
October 16, 2006... Byline: B. J. Lee South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki Moon, 62, is almost certain to replace Kofi Annan as the next secretary-general of the United Nations. He should be formally approved by the 15-member Security Council this week and...

The Good Life.(Product/service evaluation)(Brief article)
October 16, 2006... Byline: Jenny Hontz (Charlie Ferro Joe Cochrane Jessica Au Florence Villeminot Megan Cokely) TRAVEL:Room For Two By Jenny Hontz The weather may be cooling off, but there's nothing like a romantic getaway to heat things up again....

Perspectives.(Brief article)
October 16, 2006... Byline: QUOTATION SOURCES: AP, Reuters (2), AP, Financial Times We are not going to live with a nuclear North Korea. U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Chris Hill, after Pyongyang threatened to test a nuclear device soon "I knew what...

Periscope.
October 16, 2006... Byline: Maziar Bahari (Sudip Mazumdar William Underhill and Sean Smith Allan Sloan Nisid Hajari, Managing Editor David Gates) IRAN: Loaded Letter The three dots said it all. Former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani last week...

Call Centers: A Friendly Touch.
October 16, 2006... Byline: Emily Flynn Vencat Dismal customer relations has been the standard at call centers for decades. Callers get put on hold, only to be routed to representatives who have no expertise in the problem at hand. Businesses, however, are...

Space: Moon Mining.(TIC United Corp. Space Div.)(Brief article)
October 16, 2006... Byline: Owen Matthews Could a wonder fuel found on the surface of the moon be the answer to the Earth's dwindling energy resources? Known as helium 3, it's an isotope created by solar radiation and caught in crystals deposited on the moon...

Mail Call.(Letter to the editor)
October 23, 2006... Readers of our Aug. 21/Aug. 28 report on universities aired their views on education. A German professor said, "Policy mistakes have made untenable teaching conditions here." Another reader suggested English as the lingua franca for education....

Dead Man Walking; With Gaza degenerating into Somalia-like chaos, a Hamas security chief faces enemies close to home.(Cover story)
October 23, 2006... Byline: Kevin Peraino As Yussef Al-Zahar's gray Mitsubishi pickup truck wends its way through the crowded streets of Gaza City, there is no obvious sign of the men who want him dead. "Quiet day," he says, glancing out the window during his...

The New Feudalism; Forget corruption. In Putin's Russia, the nexus of payoffs and patronage is almost medieval, touching every aspect of life.
October 23, 2006... Byline: Owen Matthews and Anna Nemsova When armed police showed up last Wednesday night at Zurab Dzhaparidze's Moscow apartment, he knew immediately why they'd come. Dzhaparidze's crime, the policemen claimed, was that his apartment's...

Germany: Where Right Meets Left; Socialist? Conservative? In Berlin these days, such labels mean little. Everyone's singing the same tune.
October 23, 2006... Byline: Stefan Theil With a long history of government ownership and political meddling, it's small wonder that Airbus is in crisis. Yet now that a [euro]2 billion cost-cutting plan threatens some of the jet maker's 22,000 jobs in Hamburg...

Sweden: Rethinking the IKEA Syndrome; The country's new government puts forth a new mantra: it's the jobs, stupid.
October 23, 2006... Byline: Stryker McGuire (With Megan Cokely and James Savage) At the world's largest IKEA, in Kungens Kurva outside Stockholm, what you don't see is as important as what you do. Venture inside, and you'll find wide aisles, dream-home...

A Superjumbo Ego Problem? The new Airbus CEO faces a sales crisis with roots in a dysfunctional system that has put the wrong people at the top.
October 23, 2006... Byline: John Newhouse (Newhouse is a senior fellow at the World Security Institute and author of the upcoming book "Boeing Versus Airbus.") Readers watching the sudden implosion of Airbus may well be wondering what just happened. How could...

Dubai Remakes The World; The tiny emirate is exporting its development model, glam shopping, indoor skiing, loose rules and all.
October 23, 2006... Byline: Emily Flynn Vencat (With Jessica Au in London) It promises to be the epitome of Dubai glitz: a golf-course-cum-ski-resort rising from the desert sand, complete with towering glass-and-chrome conference buildings, exclusive shopping...

China's Internet Mess; Search-engine firms routinely use spyware to capture market share. Now they face allegations of click fraud.
October 23, 2006... Byline: Ben Robertson Zhou Rengen knows the value of online advertising. His Web site, yyzs.net, is one of the largest online shopping sites for pharmaceutical products in China. Zhou needed to be at the top of everyone's search list. In...

Edo Art Revealed; Works long stored in Boston reach Tokyo.(Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, Massachusetts))
October 23, 2006... Byline: Kay Itoi Though it happened a decade ago, Masato Naito vividly remembers the moment of discovery. He and fellow art scholars were studying old Japanese paintings in a research room at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts. Unfolding a piece...

'Desperate' Translation; Disney tailors a hit American show to Latino markets.(Desperate Housewives)
October 23, 2006... Byline: Brian Byrnes Araceli GonzAlez saunters across the set in pale pink pumps and a matching silk robe, chatting amiably with her assistant and garnering gawks from the grips. With her long legs, ivory skin and prominent cleavage, she...

Voices of The Young; Carrying on in the tradition of Anne Frank.(Zlata Filipovic works)
October 23, 2006... Byline: Florence Villeminot Zlata Filipovic remembers when her childhood was stolen from her. She was 12 years old, and war had crept into her happy life in Sarajevo. "I recall being aware that suddenly I didn't have it anymore," she says....

Rising Up From the Ashes; A dazzling novel finds humanity in the Biafran war.(Half of the Yellow Sun)(Book review)
October 23, 2006... Byline: Amber Haq Growing up in the Nigerian university town of Nsukka, Chimamanda Adichie was always aware of her country's brutal history of bloodshed. Though too young to have lived through the Biafran war, Adichie, 29, lost both her...

The Last Word: Orhan Pamuk; 'I Wanted to Be a Painter'.(Interview)
October 23, 2006... Byline: Malcolm Jones The three most important things to remember about the new Nobel laureate in literature, Orhan Pamuk, are location, location, location. No author better explores the divisions between East and West, in precise yet...

The Other Oil Threat; In 2006, OPEC's trade surpluses will match those of developing Asia, at a time when the U.S. is vulnerable to financial machinations.
October 23, 2006... Byline: Jeffrey E. Garten (Garten is the Juan Trippe Professor of International Trade and Finance at the Yale School of Management.) As oil prices continue their steady slide, and as OPEC ministers move to cut production in an effort to...

The Good Life.(Advertisement)
October 23, 2006... Byline: Jessica Au; Karen Springen; Michelle Jana Chan; Michelle Jana Chan; Karla Bruning Style: The Gatsby Glitz By Jessica Au; Karen Springen; Michelle Jana Chan; Michelle Jana Chan; Karla Bruning You don't have to live in West...

Perspectives.(Kim Yong Nam on United Nations sanctions)(Brief article)
October 23, 2006... Byline: Quotation sources: New York Times, Guardian Unlimited, Reuters, Associated Press We will regard it as a declaration of war. North Korean official Kim Yong Nam , responding to the push for U.N. sanctions against Pyongyang after...

Periscope.(on Iraq war death toll)(natural disasters death toll and economic loss)(Google acquires YouTube)
October 23, 2006... Byline: Dan Ephron; Barbie Nadeau; Steven Levy; Jonathan Mummolo; Nisid Hajari Iraq: Playing the Numbers Game Iraqi doctors who helped compile the latest survey on civilian fatalities since 2003 came close to becoming statistics...