Newsweek International articles from September 2002

Newsweek International archives from September 2002

Living With Lumumba.(Patrice Lumumba)(Brief Article)
September 2, 2002... Artistically speaking, at least, Congo's time has come. The last couple of years have seen a steady stream of books and movies relating to the country's independence movement and the ensuing upheaval. There Was Barbara Kingsolver's best-selling...

The Lure of Tourism.(Letter to the Editor)
September 2, 2002... Most readers of our July 22/29 double issue on travel and tourism offered lavish praise. One letter writer enthused, "Thanks for a geojournalistic survey that's well done, tasteful and an important contribution to the global village." A few...

Sleeping With the Enemy.(Russian foreign policy)
September 2, 2002... It wasn't exactly your ordinary business trip. The first thing the Russian executive saw as he walked off the plane in Baghdad last month was a slogan emblazoned on the floor of the jetway: DOWN WITH THE U.S.! Later, when Yevgeny and his...

Following the Floods.(Brief Article)
September 2, 2002... The only things flowing inside Nils Jebens's two Prague restaurants should have been champagne and beer. Instead, the floods that have wreaked havoc across central Europe cascaded in, washing away his life's work in a matter of hours. Not...

Oxford's Business Blues.(Brief Article)
September 2, 2002... Oxford University mooted the idea of establishing a business school six years ago, prompting 500 black-gowned dons to storm into the 17th- century Sheldonian Theatre in protest. Harvard's business school dates from 1908. Cambridge succumbed in...

Treasures in the Tombs.(antiquities smuggling in Afghanistan)
September 2, 2002... The headlights shone on a mud-brick compound as Bismallah Khan, head of the Afghan National Guard, stepped out of his car. Khan was taking a few steps toward the compound when Mustafa Faizi, 39, emerged from the structure. After exchanging a...

A Junk Heap to Cherish.(recycling industry, European Union)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
September 2, 2002... Rogier de Bode is in the business of crushing discarded refrigerators. And these days, business is good. Four or five trucks a day dump their wares at his plant on the outskirts of Dordrecht in the Netherlands, and there's plenty more out...

Barter Binge.(Brief Article)
September 2, 2002... Things are slow at the Ateneo barter club on the impoverished fringes of Buenos Aires. About 50 people listlessly swap cleaning products for bags of flour or pots of homemade jam. Carmen Barrientos, a part-time nurse at the local hospital,...

Put Out the Dung Fires.(Earth Summit, Johannesburg, South Africa)(Statistical Data Included)
September 2, 2002... Forty years ago Rachel Carson published "Silent Spring," an environmentalist's view of industrial society and the havoc it was wreaking on the natural world. The thrust of the book was, to many people at the time, novel, and the tale it told...

A Sea Of Misery.(Aral Sea water receding)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
September 2, 2002... Once upon a time, the town of Muynak was a bustling port along the Aral Sea. City workers still paint the street signs with images of seagulls and ocean waves, and here and there the masts of ships poke up between the buildings. The coast,...

Africa's Lost Fish.(overfishing in West Africa)(Brief Article)
September 2, 2002... On a breezy afternoon in the seaside city of Kayar in Senegal, El Hadj Abdoulaye Ndoye sits with a group of other retired fishermen waiting for the boats to come in. The sea is calm, but Ndoye, 80, isn't optimistic. With fish increasingly...

Seeds Of Strife.(introducing transgenic cotton to India)(Brief Article)
September 2, 2002... When cotton farmer Venkataih Gajelli set off one evening last March to sleep in the fields, his wife and three children thought he was just taking pains to guard his crop. The next morning, neighbors found him dead. Only then did his family...

Saving the Amazon.(using global positioning systems and satellites to monitor the environment)(Brief Article)
September 2, 2002... The people of the Amazon basin live by a cruel calendar. Each year starting in January, farmers, ranchers and loggers topple a swath of forest the size of Hawaii. In July, when the rains stop, they set the remaining debris on fire. But this...

The Dot-Com Fix.(developing nations and computers)(Brief Article)
September 2, 2002... In the 10 years since the last earth summit, worthy notions about making life better for the poorest among us without destroying the planet in the process have had little practical impact. This week the leaders in Johannesburg hope to remedy...

Revisiting a Ruin.(Parthenon)(Brief Article)
September 2, 2002... In 1687 an invading Venetian Army bombarded the Parthenon with more than 700 cannonballs. The attack ignited stored ammunition and set off a massive explosion that shattered the Parthenon's columns, blew apart its internal rooms and left a...

How to Build a Creative City.
September 2, 2002... As the 19th century drew to a close, there was little reason to believe that a muddy metropolis on the banks of the Hudson River would ever rival the great European cultural capitals of London and Paris. But New York City in the 1890s was on...

The World's New Culture Meccas.(cities on the upswing)
September 2, 2002... Austin, USA: Southern Sound Factory Hank Stringer has no doubt who butters his bread. Two years ago he moved his recruitment company, Hire.com, to the old Austin Opry House. He kept the stage intact and named all the conference rooms after...

The Bamboo Option.(building materials)(Brief Article)
September 2, 2002... Jules Janssen will never forget the earthquake that rocked Costa Rica back in 1991. More than 40 people died and 2,000 buildings were flattened. For Janssen, the disaster had a silver lining. Two years earlier the Dutch civil engineer had...

Call of the Not-So-Wild.(controlling big-game hunting in South Africa)
September 2, 2002... Baixinha means "pretty one." And for many living near the South African farming town of Brits, an hour's drive from Johannesburg, this East African black rhino is indeed a beauty. Though well into her golden years at 26, she remains an adored...

Sadruddin Aga Khan.(Brief Article)(Interview)
September 2, 2002... Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan doesn't look much like a fire-breathing ecowarrior. With an Iranian passport, an American education, a Geneva address and a long career as a U.N. diplomat, he's not the sort of man one expects to rage about man's...

The Neo-Neolithic.(Brief Article)
September 2, 2002... What with climate changes that would topple a triceratops and the Dow mired in a tar pit, we seem to be working our way back to the dawn of time. If I'm doomed to devolve, I've decided, best to go whole hog. Which has brought me to Green...

Perspectives.(Brief Article)
September 2, 2002... "God is in control. I believe he will vindicate me." Amina Lawal Kurami, the northern Nigerian woman sentenced by an Islamic court to die by stoning for giving birth outside her marriage "If he gets rid of the doves... he's battening down...

Periscope.(Statistical Data Included)
September 2, 2002... U.S.-SAUDI ARABIA Marriage Crisis The United States and Saudi Arabia could be headed for a monumentally ugly divorce. The marriage was always one of convenience. But the issue today isn't personal. It's business--trillions of dollars,...

When Smaller Is Better.(Brief Article)
September 2, 2002... When Margie Hollely decided to surprise her husband, John, with a cruise for his 60th birthday this past May, she was sure of one thing: it wouldn't be on a typical floating behemoth. "Two thousand people crammed on a boat just isn't my scene,"...

Corporate Greed.(Letter to the Editor)(Statistical Data Included)
September 9, 2002... Our Aug. 5 report on shady CEOs prompted many readers to vent their spleen at the shameless greed of corporate executives worldwide. Lamented one, "I've followed the recent shenanigans of America's CEOs and their cronies with distaste,...

Losing By Winning.
September 9, 2002... Candidate Yasuo Tanaka is a study in perpetual motion. He hugs babies at train stations, delivers poignant sound bites along the banks of gurgling rivers and barnstorms through sweltering mountain villages clad in his trademark Versace...

Right? Left? Center!(Brief Article)
September 9, 2002... As summer fades, a new era in European politics is emerging, a world of zero tolerance for extremism--or, indeed, of any significant deviation from the center. This fact explains the meteoric rise of France's "Monsieur Tolerance Zero," the...

Wanting More Of The Pie.(Brief Article)
September 9, 2002... Activists called it "The Week of the Landless." But proponents of land reform in southern Africa occupied center stage only briefly at the start of the World Summit on Sustainable Development. Their protest campaign began when 2,000 people...

Why Hate America?(Column)
September 9, 2002... As we near the first anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks, NEWSWEEK spoke with global leaders about the anti-American sentiment that has grown around the world. Their thoughtful--and often angry-- responses address everything from...

A Blow to Global Trade.(Brief Article)
September 9, 2002... One year on from 9-11, it's clear that the terrorist attacks that rocked America have also shaken the world economy. But exactly what has been the global economic effect of the disaster? We know its most obvious costs--physical losses of more...

Beyond the 'A' Word.
September 9, 2002... Zakes Mda won't talk about apartheid. The word appears neither in his acclaimed new novel, "The Heart of Redness," nor in his 1995 debut work, "Ways of Dying." Mda, who has won every major literary prize in South Africa--most recently, the...

Oasis of Normalcy.
September 9, 2002... Victor Brombert grew up in a wealthy Jewish family that fled Russia to seek refuge in Germany, only to have to pack up again to settle in France in the 1930s. But Brombert, a literary critic at Yale and then Princeton, hasn't produced another...

Seeing the Evil In Front of Us.(Column)
September 9, 2002... The moment of confrontation had come. President Bush warned Saddam Hussein that if he continued to interfere with United Nations weapons inspectors and to shoot at American warplanes over Iraq, he would have to pay the consequences. So Islamic...

Get Outta My Way!(Column)(Product Announcement)
September 9, 2002... The view from the driver's seat of a GMC Yukon XL Denali is nothing short of commanding. From here, a driver feels omnipotent, like a swaggering despot looking down his nose on subjects scurrying like frightened ants. That was how I felt the...

Perspectives.
September 9, 2002... "They need a new PR consultant." Steve Push, who lost his wife in the September 11 terrorist attacks, on reports that Saudi Arabia wants to donate a million-dollar racehorse to the families of victims in hopes of improving relations with the...

Periscope.
September 9, 2002... U.S. POLICY Bush's Arm-Twister President George W. Bush has relaunched his drive to curb the powers of the International Criminal Court--by cutting separate deals with 180 countries. Washington has eased its threats to halt global...

Fall Fashion Forward.(Brief Article)
September 9, 2002... If you really felt like it this fall, you could dress up like a Tibetan herder--or one of the same Tibetan herder's flocks of sheep--and still look stylish. Labels from Dior to Helmut Lang have trotted out ankle- length shearlings with ragged...

Living The High-Roller Life.(Brief Article)
September 9, 2002... The rich are different from you and me. For one thing, they can afford to blow scads of money in Vegas on such a regular basis that the casinos often put them up free in one of their over-the-top luxury suites. Unless you brandished a $500,000...

Mail Call.
September 16, 2002... Invade Iraq? Fareed Zakaria's Aug. 12 column advising President Bush to build support for a war with Iraq drew loud protests. One reader called the counsel "a blueprint for disaster." Another advised, "Listen to the world." A third wrote,...

Does This Vote Matter?(Germany)
September 16, 2002... One of Germany's favorite Internet sites, these days, is the Kanzlergenerator. Start with a grinning image of Der Kanzler, Gerhard Schroder. With a few clicks, mix in a couple of facial features from his challenger in next week's national...

Birds & Trees, Poles & String.(London's eruv )(Brief Article)
September 16, 2002... Forget al Qaeda or Iraq. In the leafy and luxurious suburbs of North London, the big controversy involves a loop of nylon and some poles. Since 1992, residents of the borough of Barnet have debated whether to build an eruv, some 200 of which...

Radicals in Retreat.(Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan)
September 16, 2002... Sheraly Akbotoev received the summons in Kabul last November. An Uzbek religious instructor and avowed jihadist, Akbotoev was a member of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), a hard-line group with ties to Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden....

Hands Across The Sea.(North Korea's foreign policy)
September 16, 2002... For a few brief hours this summer, million of North Koreans sampled a rare treat. Pyongyang's state-run Korean Central Television unexpectedly interrupted its regularly scheduled propaganda to air excerpts of World Cup football...

The Art of Recession.(Argentina)(Brief Article)
September 16, 2002... On a recent Friday afternoon on the Buenos Aires subway, a shuffling salesman tries to interest passengers in toiletries from a shabby hold- all. Nobody pays much attention. With Argentina suffering its fourth year of a savage depression, the...

Fight Over Bullfights.(France)(Brief Article)
September 16, 2002... Beneath a hot noonday sun, Robert Marge watches six fighting bulls grazing among sparse trees. One by one they turn to face his car, snorting and showing off the 500 kilos of rage they'll bring to the ring. "Bulls are like nitroglycerin," says...

Dangerous Liaisons.(promiscuity among Japanese youth)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
September 16, 2002... Masami strides out the main gate at Tokyo University, her mobile phone in hand. The pretty 21-year-old economics major speed-dials a male student, and the two agree to meet at a nearby coffee shop. A study break? Hardly. "I'm meeting him to...

'The War Is Not Finished'.(Afghanistan)(Brief Article)
September 16, 2002... In a bid to legitimize his role as leader of the Taliban movement, Mullah Mohammed Omar made a pilgrimage in 1996. He went to the Kherqah Mubarak mosque in Kandahar, one of the holiest shrines in Afghanistan, and donned a cloak said to have...

Love Is a Game (Show).(in India arranged marriage is a game show)(Brief Article)
September 16, 2002... A young couple sits side by side on a romantic swing propped up by pink bolsters. Although they've just met, Vinod Deshpande, 28, and Meenakshi Wagh, 27, are hesitantly trying to figure out if they should spend the rest of their lives together....

The Funny Side of Faith.(Shazia Mirza, world's only Muslim woman comedian)(Brief Article)(Interview)
September 16, 2002... In the year since September 11, the profile of Islam has been raised in the West, to be sure--but also stereotyped, denigrated and demonized. All too often the religion's most extreme voices have spoken loudest, and the diversity of the faith...

Real People Don't Kick Back.(American attitudes about vacations)(Brief Article)
September 16, 2002... Long is a screenwriter in Los Angeles. Ask someone from Hollywood, "how was your summer?" and you're actually asking a complicated question. Out here, the elements of summer-- sunshine, bare feet, salt water, procrastination, laziness,...

Futurology.
September 16, 2002... He changed the future without ever winning a vote or commanding an army. All Albert Einstein did was have an idea. It's not a particularly easy one to grasp in all its ramifications, but the basic insight he expressed in his 1905 paper on...

The Power of Europe.(what the world will look like in 2012)(economic forecast)
September 16, 2002... Name this superpower: its "miracle economy" dominated the world for a decade, before the miracle was exposed as a mirage. Stocks tanked. A housing bubble threatened to burst. Billions in business investments that had looked so smart in the boom...

Capitalism Reconsidered.(what the world will look like in 2012)(globalization)(Brief Article)
September 16, 2002... Remember the triumph of Anglo-Saxon capitalism? Not many do. The nations that inspired the late-20th-century boom in global trade and profited most greatly from its advance no longer define its rules. What the radical individualists of the...

The Dole Loses Its Job.(what the world will look like in 2012)(the European welfare state)(Brief Article)
September 16, 2002... Dateline: Stockholm, 2012. The welfare state died last night at home in bed; it was 66 years old. Born in London after World War II, its aim in life was to keep peace in a society with too many workers and too few jobs. For decades its pension,...

War Zones Of 2012.(what the world will look like in 2012)
September 16, 2002... For decades, the list of the world's most dangerous conflicts was short and changed very little. All dated to World War II and its tangled aftermath of cold war and imperial retreat. There was the tense border between India and Pakistan, the...

Storm Clouds.(what the world will look like in 2012)(Middle East)(Brief Article)
September 16, 2002... When western diplomats in the Middle East talk among themselves, many compare the present moment to August 1914. Then, Europe was stumbling toward a cataclysm. So reckless was the rhetoric that a single terrorist act, an assassination in...

Peace Be Upon Us.(what the world will look like in 2012)(Islamic countries)(Brief Article)
September 16, 2002... Last winter, when Pakistan's Islamic extremist groups were whipping up anti-American frenzy against the war in Afghanistan, a firebrand sheik held a rally in Islamabad. He railed against the foreign media as imperialist lackeys. He lashed out...

Rebel Rich.(what the world will look like in 2012)(sovereignty for Hokkaido, Japan)
September 16, 2002... A rebellion is brewing on Japan's northern frontier. This one doesn't involve armed guerrillas, or even a last-gasp campaign by Hokkaido's few remaining indigenous people, the Ainu, demanding the return of lands occupied by displaced samurai in...

Crime Online.(what the world will look like in 2012)(Brief Article)
September 16, 2002... Hackers are everywhere. In a recent FBI survey, nine out of 10 businesses, schools and government agencies had detected computer- security breaches within the previous 12 months, with hundreds of millions of dollars in losses. The online crime...

What's in after greed?(what the world will look like in 2012)(the rise of community)(Brief Article)
September 16, 2002... KARABELL is the author of several books and is senior economic analyst and futurist at Fred Alger Management American culture at the end of 2002 is adrift. As quickly as the New Economy rose, it fell, leaving America rudderless once again....

Life in the Grid.(what the world will look like in 2012)(communications)
September 16, 2002... Tokyo at rush hour, circa 2012: your automated car whisks you off to Narita airport, steering itself through traffic. You're free to work. Push a button on your watch, and an image of your firm's mining operation in Indonesia springs to life in...

Death of the Male.
September 16, 2002... This is not another voice in a whiny chorus of disgruntled males, who after millenniums of ruling the world find themselves having to compete with the other half of humanity. No, the whining won't wash. Almost everywhere men dominate the elite...

Future Imperfect.(Brief Article)
September 16, 2002... It's half past 10 on a Monday morning, and the audience in the Loews Regency Ballroom B is hanging on the words of a lanky man with a bushy white beard and a floral print tie. "Racism will be a quaint bit of history," the speaker, Joseph...

Putting the City in Motion.(Brief Article)
September 16, 2002... Aristotle wrote that men come together in cities to live, but stay in them to live the good life. In Europe that worked brilliantly for the first 2,500 years or so. It was the Greeks who invented the idea of the city, and urbanity continues as...

Mad Science.
September 16, 2002... The performer known as Lifto has a problem. A longtime member of the Jim Rose Circus, he can already lift incredible amounts of weight with his penis. But he wants to take his act to the next level: bungee jumping with a cord tied to his, uh,...

Me-Too Medicine.(Brief Article)
September 16, 2002... The diet drug cocktail fen-phen was supposed to be safe, but it became a nightmare for AnnMarie Mannino. After shedding more than 90 pounds in just six months, she was diagnosed in 1997 with severe damage to her heart valves. She survived, but...

The Real Star Wars.
September 16, 2002... O'Hanlon, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, is writing a book on the future military uses of outer space. The future of space warfare doesn't seem that far off. Already the U.S. Air Force calls itself an "integrated aerospace...

Goodbye, Cousin.(orangutan)(Brief Article)
September 16, 2002... Inspired by an August 2002 report from the U.S.-based Nature Conservancy. The last wild orangutan had no-where to hide. For thousands of years the red ape--humankind's third closest living relative--flourished in lush tropical forests. The...

The Next Ice Age.(Brief Article)
September 16, 2002... Adapted from a July report by Japan's Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications outlining how I.T. will change daily life by 2010. When did it start, really? Suddenly the world was flooded with digital...

The Green Airport.(Brief Article)
September 16, 2002... Adapted from engineer Jim Starry's design, featured in "Airports and Cities: Can They Coexist?" From July/August 2001 issue of World Watch Magazine It's Monday morning and you've got to catch an 8 o'clock flight. No problem: you live next...

Land of the Future.(Brief Article)
September 16, 2002... In his classic novel "The Pioneers," James Fenimore Cooper has his hero, a land developer, take his cousin on a tour of the city he is building. He describes the broad streets, rows of houses, a teeming metropolis. But his cousin looks around...

Young at Heart.(what the world will look like in 2012)(marketing to an aging population)
September 16, 2002... Kihabara shopping district, Tokyo, 2012: in a street once dominated by electronics dealers and toy stores, a new business is opening its doors. Signs in extra-bold lettering are advertising "authentic" whalebone walking canes, along with the...

Perspectives.
September 16, 2002... "It will open the gates of hell in the Middle East." Arab League secretary-general Amr Moussa, warning against military action in Iraq "I have now heard you." Secretary of State Colin Powell, to hecklers at the Johannesburg earth summit,...

Periscope.
September 16, 2002... EXCLUSIVE Asleep With the Enemy At first, FBI Director Bob Mueller insisted there was nothing the bureau could have done to penetrate the 9-11 plot. That account has been modified over time--and now may change again. NEWSWEEK has...

Music / Free for All.(online services)(Brief Article)
September 16, 2002... A Sept. 3 ruling by a U.S. court officially put Napster, the once- revolutionary music-swapping service, out of business. But you can still find all the copyrighted material you want online. Look for this next generation of apps at download.com...

Wired Greetings.(video messaging machines)(Brief Article)
September 16, 2002... Next time you're catching a flight at Copenhagen Airport, check out its new v-mail (or video-mail) machine. You can send a video clip, compressed so it doesn't fill much computer space, to friends back home. The operation is simple. A...

O Canada!(Quebec restaurants)(Brief Article)
September 16, 2002... See BudgetTravel.MSNBC.com. Looking for fabulous French food you can afford? Head to Montreal and Quebec City, where, thanks to a weak Canadian dollar, you can easily find three-course feasts for under US$10. Au Bistro Gourmet 2 ...

It's the Image, Stupid.(letters)
September 30, 2002... Readers--and fans--of our back page took umbrage at the Aug. 19 Last Word, in which filmmaker Barry Levinson discussed a PR campaign to improve the U.S. image abroad. "You must be joking!" cried one; another said, "The perception is caused by...

Drowning in the Oil Sea.(Mexico's national oil industry)(Brief Article)
September 30, 2002... The water-borne city appears through the helicopter window, dozens of oil platforms scattered across the shimmering blue Gulf of Mexico, smokestacks spitting fire. It was here, 50 miles from shore, that in 1976 a local fisherman named...

Heading to Battle.
September 30, 2002... The Bush hard-liners were in an "I told you so" mood. As the White House was pulled into the multilateral machinery of the United Nations- -and Iraq threw a monkey wrench in the works by abruptly agreeing to U.N.inspections--the hawks of the...

The Fear Factor.(state elections in Jammu and Kashmir)
September 30, 2002... Nobody has voted, so we've got an order to collect them," the Indian soldier explains. Nearby, seven Kashmiri men, eyes hard with what could be anger or fear, are squatting by the side of a narrow road that winds up a ridge in Indian-ruled...

The German Problem.
September 30, 2002... "We don't know what Germany stands for anymore." --Senior British diplomat "We Germans still aren't sure of our place in the world, or where we'll end up." --Editor Georg Gafron of the Berlin tabloid BZ Remember the German question,...

Learning From the East.(East Germany offers more business friendly opportunities)(Brief Article)
September 30, 2002... When the German automaker BMW decided to build a new assembly plant for its 3 Series sedan, executives scouted 250 locations around the world. They considered sites in France and the Czech Republic, where lower wages and a friendly regulatory...

Breach of Faith.(Japanese nuclear power plants fail to report safety breaches)
September 30, 2002... When Junichiro Koizumi visited Pyongyang last week, he was hoping in part to lessen the threat of nuclear weapons targeted at Japan. Yet after sealing landmark agreements that halted North Korea's missile tests and could open its secret-weapons...