Newsweek articles from August 2003

Newsweek archives from August 2003

Back to Basics: During the gung-ho '90s, CEOs strayed into some strange businesses to boost revenue. Now, common sense is back in vogue--and the new path to profit.
August 4, 2003... Publisher correction: 19 July, 2003 In our Aug. 4 article "Back to Basics," we incorrectly stated that Mickey Drexler founded the Gap clothing store. In fact, Donald and Doris Fisher started the company in 1969. Drexler became CEO in 1983....

Big Media's Big Headache: An unlikely coalition pulls off a rare victory against deregulation.
August 4, 2003... Byline: Johnnie L. Roberts It's hard to imagine a more motley crew: the National Rifle Association, the National Organization of Women, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and dozens of other groups of all stripes and political...

Reform? Don't Celebrate Yet. It's been a year since the Sarbanes-Oxley Act was signed. There is evidence of progress. Analysts issue more 'sell' recommendations.
August 4, 2003... Byline: Allan Sloan They're having a ceremony in Washington Wednesday to mark a year since the Sarbanes-Oxley Corporate Reform Act became the law of the land. The event, at Securities and Exchange Commission headquarters, will have...

Conventional Wisdom: BROTHERS GRIM EDITION.(Brief Article)
August 4, 2003... With American troops about to land in another faraway hot zone, Liberia will become more than disturbing pictures. And what's our mission? C.W. Bush = Good news: Whacked Uday and Qusay, but don't declare victory...

Mail Call.(Letter to the Editor)
August 4, 2003... Death Be Not Proud Many readers of our cover story on the legacy of Saddam Hussein were plainly moved by the pages of photos of U.S. and British casualties. "I really tried to focus on the articles, but I give up. The photos just keep...

The Greening Of Chicago: The City Beautiful movement is flourishing where it was born in 1893. In Chicago, Mayor Daley says, 'Flowers calm people down.'.
August 4, 2003... Byline: George F. Will Chicago-- Thirty-five summers ago, in the angriest year of a boiling era, the forces of peace, love and understanding--they fancied themselves "flower power"--clashed violently at the Democratic Convention with the...

Crying Out For America: The moral imperative in Liberia could not be clearer: step in and stop the killing. Bush may do so, but in his own time.
August 4, 2003... Byline: Tom Masland, Michael Hirsh and Tamara Lipper A plaque at the low-slung Newport Junior High School in Monrovia announces that the building was "constructed with funds provided by the United States of America." These days nearly 5,000...

'We Want Our Own State': In Washington to talk peace with Bush, Abbas speaks plainly about Palestinian aspirations and Sharon, 'red lines' and the Roadmap--and sharing power with Arafat.(Interview)
August 4, 2003... Byline: Lally Weymouth Palestinian prime minister Mahmoud Abbas came to Washington last week. Shortly before he met with President George W. Bush, Abbas, also known as Abu Mazen, spoke to NEWSWEEK's Lally Weymouth about the prospects for...

The Keys To the Prison: He's either a terrorist or the best hope for peace in the Middle East. Or both.
August 4, 2003... Byline: Dan Ephron After 14 months of pleading, Fadwa Barghouti dared to hope she had won. First the media reported that Israel might free her husband, Marwan Barghouti, in a top-level prisoner swap. Then Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat...

A New Storm of Trouble in Manila.(Brief Article)
August 4, 2003... From the start, they insisted their uprising was no coup. "We are not attempting to grab power," said Lt. (s.g.) Antonio Trillanes. "We are just trying to express our grievances." Early Sunday morning, he and roughly 50 heavily armed members of...

The Editor's Desk.(Editorial)
August 4, 2003... Byline: Mark Whitaker After months of resistance from the Bush administration, a joint congressional commission issued its report last week on the intelligence failures that preceded September 11. The findings were devastating, but many...

Rap to the Rescue: Will the ailing concert industry embrace hip-hop?
August 4, 2003... Byline: Jennifer Ordonez It's an unusually saucy Wednesday night in suburban Salt Lake City. There is talk of ho's and weed and jail and bling. There are well-endowed women in skimpy clothes and men dripping with their best jewelry. And...

Caution: Wizard at Work: Behind the Magic: The Harry Potter movie franchise has a new director and a new Dumbledore. Things are getting Sirius. An exclusive visit to 2004's 'Prisoner of Azkaban.'.
August 4, 2003... Byline: Carla Power and Devin Gordon Between takes at the shrieking shack--a ghoulish, precariously quaking house on the fringes of the wizard village Hogsmeade--actor Daniel Radcliffe fiddles with his magic wand. Today's scene is a doozy:...

Open the Windows And Let Summer In: If you're like me, you can go for days without ever breaking a sweat or even taking a breath of fresh air.
August 4, 2003... Byline: Jamey Smith Each year, as spring rolls into summer, I close every open window and crank up the air conditioner. Even if it's not yet hot outside, I want that AC humming. This year my tussle with the miniblinds was interrupted by a...

See How They Ran: They hoarded money. And they huddled in fear. Inside the flight path of Saddam's sons. The raid that grounded them--and the hunt for the Ace of Spades.
August 4, 2003... Byline: Evan Thomas and Rod Nordland In his famous short story "The Things They Carried," writer Tim O'Brien shows that you can learn a great deal about men by what they take into battle. In the case of the platoon he described slogging...

Condi in the Hot Seat: She's enjoyed great press--until now. The national-security adviser gets singed by two flames from the terror front.
August 4, 2003... Byline: Evan Thomas and Tamara Lipper First to take the fall was CIA Director George Tenet. He apologized for not stopping President Bush from declaring, in the State of the Union, that the Iraqis were trying to buy yellowcake uranium in...

Failure to Communicate: The congressional probe of 9/11 suggests the attacks could have been prevented. Who's to blame? And what did the Saudis know? More than the Bushies will admit.
August 4, 2003... Byline: Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman In January 2000, FBI agents tailing a suspected Qaeda operative in San Diego thought they'd gotten a break. Their target was spotted chatting with the manager of Sam's Star Mart, a local Texaco...

9/11's Hidden Toll: Muslim-American women are quietly coping with a tragic side effect of the attacks--a surge in domestic violence.
August 4, 2003... Byline: Sarah Childress His temper flared even before the wedding. But Lila's husband was usually sweet and attentive, a devout African-American Muslim who even traveled to her native country in the Middle East to meet--and charm--her...

Newsmakers: Spills and Thrills for Armstrong.
August 4, 2003... Byline: Mark Starr It was a tale of two falls: the first was Lance Armstrong's, on Monday, as he was starting the day's final mountain ascent in the Pyrenees. The second was Jan Ullrich's, on Saturday during a critical time trial on...

Perspectives.
August 4, 2003... Byline: Quotation sources from top to bottom: The Washington Post, New York Times, Reuters (2), Associated Press, BBC, The Washington Post, CNN, The Washington Post, Associated Press, The Times (London), New York Post, Philadelphia Inquirer ...

Terrorism: Al Qaeda's Men in Iran.
August 4, 2003... Byline: Mark Hosenball and Babak Dehghanpisheh As U.S. troops try to fend off "guerrilla" attacks in Iraq, American spies and diplomats are increasingly preoccupied with a scary group of Qaeda operatives in neighboring Iran. Last week Ali...

Police: Atlas Takes Action.(Brief Article)
August 4, 2003... Byline: Suzanne Smalley and Peter Bailey The news came in on e-mail and cell phones: gunfire in New York's city hall and at least one councilman dead. Many Americans learned about last Wednesday's incident and braced for a new kind of...

Celebrity: In Kobe's Spotlight.(Brief Article)
August 4, 2003... Byline: Paul Tolme With as many as 400 members of the media descending on tiny Eagle, Colo. (population: 3,000), the scene of the alleged Kobe Bryant attack, the town's teens have become media darlings. Acquaintances of Bryant's accuser...

Tabloids: Start the Presses.(Brief Article)
August 4, 2003... Byline: Karen Breslau Arnold Schwarzenegger could be the most formidable gubernatorial candidate California Dems will face. He's got name recognition, he's independently wealthy and, come on, he's the Terminator. So are they working...

School: The Web Ate My Homework.(Brief Article)
August 4, 2003... Byline: Catharine Skipp and Arian Campo-Flores Schoolkids, beware: the "I don't have any homework" line might not fly anymore. Increasingly, parents are turning to school Web portals to monitor their kids' assignments, attendance and...

Radio: Telling American Tales.(Brief Article)
August 4, 2003... Byline: Meredith Sadin Joe Caracciolo didn't think he was making history when he delivered a baby on a subway car. Neither did Reggie Jones when he stuck with his lifeguard job at New York's Jones Beach for 60 years. Now, thanks to...

Singapore: Now Chew On This.
August 4, 2003... Byline: Joe Cochrane Just weeks after signing a free-trade agreement with the United States, Singaporean Trade Minister George Yeo was in a sticky situation. Wrigley, the U.S. gum maker, was insisting that it be allowed to sell its wares...

Harry Potter: Mum Shall Stay Mum.(Brief Article)
August 4, 2003... Byline: Elise Christenson Notice how British "Harry Potter" has seemed lately? If you're reading the Scholastic-published edition of the most recent installment, it's not just in your head. The series, which is "translated" from British...

Toys: Flavas of the Week.(Brief Article)
August 4, 2003... Byline: Elise Christenson Not all was well in Barbie dreamland. The buxom-but-wholesome blonde's worldwide sales were down 8 percent, and last year's tween-geared spinoff, My Scene, didn't do the trick. Mattel needed something to woo girls...

Transition.(Brief Article)(Obituary)
August 4, 2003... Byline: David Ansen At a ceremony last year paying tribute to the career of British movie director John Schlesinger--an event he was too ill to attend--Dustin Hoffman said of the man who made the Oscar-winning "Midnight Cowboy," "He loved...

Love Canal's Long shadow 25 Years Later: Twenty-five years later, another New York town turns toxic.
August 4, 2003... Byline: Debra Rosenberg When Jennifer and Patrick Blake moved into their house in the Hickory Woods neighborhood of Buffalo, N.Y., 10 years ago, they planted flowers in the garden and dreamed of filling the three bedrooms with children....

Bridget Jones Grows Up: 'Mommy lit' takes a wry, irreverent look at motherhood.
August 4, 2003... Byline: Peg Tyre When novelist Jane Green began writing her latest book, she realized it was time for something new. After turning out three successful girl-dates-boy stories in four years--"Straight Talking," "Jemima J" and "Mr....

A Campus Head Start: Minority programs boost graduation rates; some critics say they're unfair.
August 4, 2003... Byline: Peter Bailey With his Rocawear jersey and tattoos, 18-year-old Vonzelle Johnson stands out on Colgate University's bucolic upstate New York campus. But that doesn't bother the incoming freshman from Daytona Beach, Fla. He's toiling...

State Schools Lure Alumni Bucks.(Brief Article)
August 4, 2003... Byline: Arthur Kimball-Stanley This spring, officials at the University of Massachusetts Amherst decided their mascot could use a makeover. The Minuteman seemed so 1775, and that whole white-man-with-a-gun thing was perhaps not quite...

Families Ask Why: Relatives of GIs in Iraq are speaking out about mounting casualties and long deployments.
August 4, 2003... Byline: Jerry Adler The women--wives of officers with the Third Infantry Division on duty in Baghdad--listened impatiently to the speeches at a "redeployment meeting" at the base. They all had the same question--when is my husband coming...

The Best of Friends: They were teammates, roommates, almost as close as brothers. Suddenly one goes missing and the other is charged with murder.
August 4, 2003... Byline: Mark Miller and Dirk Johnson Big dudes on campus, Patrick Dennehy and Carlton Dotson didn't hang much with the other basketball players at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. Usually, it was just the two of them. "They were always...

Pirates of The Internet: The bill says if you share a single tune with your pals online--as millions do every day--you are a felon. Penalty: up to five years in jail.
August 4, 2003... Byline: Steven Levy Last month I attended a hearing of the senate judiciary Committee with an intriguing title: "The dark side of a bright idea: Could personal and national-security risks compromise the potential of peer-to-peer...

Money: Beware The Fund Traps.
August 4, 2003... Byline: Linda Stern Mutual funds are like cars. If they keep moving in the right direction, we don't care how they work. But three years of Wall Street scandals and shrinking portfolios have put investors in a tire-kicking mood. Almost one...

Cheat Sheet: Boat Buying.(Brief Article)(Buyers Guide)
August 4, 2003... Byline: Elisa Williams About to splurge on a boat? They say the two happiest days in your life will be the day you buy it and the day you sell it. Some hints for making both go smoothly: 1 Know what you want to do on the water. Are you a...

Road Test: Civic EX: A small package.(Brief Article)(Product/Service Evaluation)
August 4, 2003... Byline: Tara Weingarten It's got zero snob appeal. But who cares? The new Civic EX has all the character you need to scoot around town. It's small--but not scary small--so parking in tight spaces and making quick lane changes in rush-hour...

Ask Tip Sheet.(Brief Article)
August 4, 2003... Byline: Maria Beaudoin Why do American flag patches on U.S. soldiers' arms appear to be backward? I've also noticed this on the sides of airplanes. --Philip G. Romeo, Wollaston, Mass. It's not a mistake or a political statement....

Health: Ice Cream Weighs In.(Brief Article)
August 4, 2003... Byline: Maria Beaudoin If you order a scoop of Chunky Monkey in a chocolate-dipped waffle cone, you're probably not on Atkins. But you might not realize that the Ben & Jerry's treat packs as many calories (820) and as much saturated fat...

Services: Online Grocers.(Brief Article)
August 4, 2003... Byline: Isolde Raftery For years, companies have promised that we'd be able to order groceries online and have them delivered to our homes in a flash. Few of the early Web groceries lived up to their promises; many folded during the...

Spirits: Cocktail, Anyone?(Brief Article)
August 4, 2003... Byline: Tara Weingarten If you still haven't had that backyard bash you've been promising your friends, don't worry, it's not too late. But you'll want to do it up right--plain old gin and tonic just won't cut it. Tip Sheet's Tara...

Getaways: Pied-A-Terrific.(Brief Article)
August 4, 2003... Byline: Brian Braiker Picture yourself poolside at an 18th- century farmhouse in Provence--next week. Anti-French sentiment and a weak dollar have left many postcard-perfect summer rentals, or gites, vacant. The ones in Provence may be the...

Family: Going Buggy.(Brief Article)
August 4, 2003... Byline: Karen Springen Bugs are a fact of summer. So are the slew of bug sprays marketers roll out each year. You should use something: the mosquito-borne West Nile virus killed 284 Americans last year. But what, exactly? Look for products...

Travel: Cheap Thrills.(Brief Article)
August 4, 2003... Byline: Nayelli Gonzalez For the past year, there's been a theme to the theme parks: they're tanking. But that's good news for us! To draw day-trippers, Universal Studios Hollywood's Endless Summer Pass ($47 adult, $37 child; call...

Technology: A Better Assistant.(Brief Article)(Product/Service Evaluation)
August 4, 2003... Byline: N'Gai Croal Forgive us if we geek out for a moment, but you'll understand why shortly. Ever since Sony introduced its Clie line of handhelds, the company has injected a little pizzazz into the previously staid PDA market. The two...

Finances: To-Do List For Grads.(Brief Article)
August 4, 2003... Byline: Linda Stern You're done with dorms, you're back from Europe. Make these moves fast: Consolidate your government loans within six months of graduating to grab a 2.82 percent rate. Go to loanconsolidation.ed.gov, salliemae.com...

Snap Judgement.(Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life)(Camp)(Dirty Pretty Things)(Movie Review)
August 4, 2003... Byline: DAVID ANSEN Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life Directed by Jan de Bont Nobody would claim that the first "Tomb Raider" was a tough act to follow, and this action-crammed sequel is a definite step up. The tale has the silly/...

Outside the Bright Lines: To have learned to think 'you're you, no matter what' about those we love has alleviated an enormous amount of unnecessary pain.(She's Not There)(Book Review)
August 11, 2003... Byline: Anna Quindlen The most dispiriting moment in Jenny Boylan's book is when she realizes that talking like a girl means sounding uncertain about your own name, like this: "Hello? I'm Jenny Boylan?" The funniest moment is when her...

Secondhand Prose: Used books are a bleak bookselling scene's bright spot.
August 11, 2003... Byline: Malcolm Jones Some people check stock quotations to see how their investments are doing. I look at used-book prices online. I've never been a collector, but over the years a few novels that I've hung on to simply because I liked...

Men at Overwork: The good news is we're more productive. The bad news? They don't need as many of us.
August 11, 2003... Byline: Brad Stone IBM's year-old, $2.5 billion computer-chip plant in East Fishkill, N.Y., is a manufacturing marvel. Three hundred robotic tools, six miles of networking cable and more computing power than NASA uses to launch the space...

The Secret Law Of Refinancing: Step right up for a tour of Refi World, a puzzling place where something as basic as the law of supply and demand doesn't apply.(mortgage refinancing)
August 11, 2003... Byline: Allan Sloan Isn't refinancing your mortgage fun? No wonder it became one of America's favorite indoor activities. When rates were falling, which they did for years, people kept calling their mortgage brokers to get a lower rate....

Conventional Wisdom: SPECIAL UNREDACTED EDITION.(Brief Article)
August 11, 2003... Some economic indicators are up, but more people are losing their jobs. Unlike the prez, they're having unworking vacations. C.W. Bush = Goes both ways on gays and finally admits his own Iraq words were his. ...

Mail Call and Corrections.(Letter to the Editor)(Correction Notice)
August 11, 2003... A Gray Time for the Golden State Our July 28 cover story on California's budget crisis prompted readers to speculate on the reasons for the state's financial and political maelstrom. Many pointed to California's continuing influx of...

Terror, Iraq and 'Full Security': Fresh from meeting President Bush at the White House, Ariel Sharon talks about settlements, weapons of mass destruction and what it will take to make peace.(Interview)
August 11, 2003... Byline: Lally Weymouth Israel's prime minister Ariel Sharon came to Washington last week for his eighth White House visit with President Bush. Bush is anxious to promote the so-called Roadmap to peace in the Middle East, which so far has...

Beware the Puppet Masters: All those groups and leaders who lived through Saddam Hussein's reign cannot be pleased to see the exiles being foisted atop the country.
August 11, 2003... Byline: Fareed Zakaria "For an Iraqi family, no other choice," read the Washington Post's front-page headline last Friday. The story is of an Iraqi father whose village forced him to kill his son. The son had allegedly helped the American...

School Days With a Qaeda Suspect: Long ago, NEWSWEEK correspondent Richard Wolffe went to school with Moazzam Begg. Now he's gone back to find out where Begg went bad.(Biography)
August 11, 2003... Byline: Richard Wolffe He stood out from the rest of our class for being so small and frail. Sure, he could run like the wind, which kept him out of trouble. And he won friends with his bright, wide smile. Yet he was also awkward, easily...

Oiling the Relationship: The bottom line: the Bushies and Saudis need each other.
August 11, 2003... Byline: Christopher Dickey "Hogwash!" Prince Saud al-Faisal erupted. Saudi Arabia's U.S.-educated foreign minister was flying home from a tough trip to Washington. He had endured congressional accusations of direct links between Saudi...

The Editor's Desk.
August 11, 2003... Byline: Mark Whitaker If anyone knows democrats, it's Jonathan Alter. As a kid growing up in Chicago, he studied the Daley machine, and his mother was the first woman elected to county office in Cook County. He was an usher at the 1976...

Shredding the Envelope: 'American Splendor' is the anti summer movie: a bent biopic that trashes every Hollywood convention--and then some.(Movie Review)
August 11, 2003... Byline: David Ansen Arriving not a moment too soon, "American Splendor" is a glorious rebuke to all this summer's recycled, effects-ridden, laboriously "fun" Hollywood disappointments piled along the wayside like so many crashed cars. An...

Turkey Time: Bennifer Gets Basted: Finally, a movie everyone agrees on! Critics embrace 'Gigli'--and crush it to death.(Movie Review)
August 11, 2003... Byline: Jeff Giles For months, there was talk of trouble--a calamitous test screening, an altercation between a director and a studio exec, a chemistry worse than Cruise and Kidman's, a movie in search of an ending. In fact, reports about...

Beautiful Loser: In 'American Splendor,' Paul Giamatti finally gets his star moment playing an ordinary guy.(Interview)(Biography)
August 11, 2003... Byline: Devin Gordon Life is sweet when you're "that guy in that movie." The money is good. The hours are nothing. And you get all the best lines in the script. You can do an interview in dumpy jeans and an old T shirt because, really, who...

Saved by the Kindness Of a Virtual Stranger: My wife needed a kidney, but we didn't know how to ask friends for help. Turns out we didn't have to.
August 11, 2003... Byline: Mark S. Zelermyer I grew up thinking that if miracles existed at all, they were larger than life, spectacular acts that suspended the laws of nature (think Cecil B. DeMille's "The Ten Commandments"). Even as an adult, whenever I...

The Kissinger Files: He was the master diplomat of his time. Now he's got his eye on history's verdict.("Crisis")(Book Review)
August 11, 2003... Byline: Michael Beschloss When John Updike published his ironic 1992 novel, "Memories of the Ford Administration," he could not know that he was writing about the future. This past spring, as George W. Bush fought Iraq, the president was...

Anatomy of a Crisis: Listen in as Kissinger and Nixon navigate the delicate shoals of the 1973 Yom Kippur War.(Excerpt)
August 11, 2003... Byline: From "Crisis" by Henry A. Kissinger. To be published by Simon & Schuster, Inc. Early on Saturday morning, Oct. 6, 1973, as Israelis celebrate their holiest day of Yom Kippur, Kissinger is awakened in a New York hotel room. He is...

The Left's Mr. Right? IN YOUR FACE: His willingness to go after Bush on Iraq thrilled long-suffering liberals. And his unexpected success at fund-raising gave him crucial momentum. But is Howard Dean the Democrats' path back to power--or a recipe for another 49-state defeat?
August 11, 2003... Byline: Jonathan Alter Consider two voters motivated to contribute to Howard Dean's presidential campaign: one is a supporter; the other is a... "supporter." Kevin O'Connor, a 53-year-old investment banker, went to Denver's first gathering...

The Doctor in His Life: For a possible future First Lady, Dr. Judith Steinberg has a novel approach to politics. She simply won't be bothered.
August 11, 2003... Byline: Eleanor Clift The first surprise about Dr. Judith Steinberg is how she answers the phone: Judy Dean, she says brightly. Judy Dean? Is this the candidate's wife who has staked out an independent life, declining the traditional role...

'They'll Say Anything': Dean whacks the Bush White House, scolds his Democratic opponents and talks bluntly about deficits, taxes and gays.(Howard Dean)(Interview)
August 11, 2003... He may be the left's hero, but Howard Dean doesn't fit neatly into the political pegboard. He spoke out--on the Democrats' weaknesses, the thorny issue of gay marriage and his own now legendary temperament--in conversations with NEWSWEEK last...

Springing Eternal: He was a joker, a patriot, a master entertainer, an icon. Remembering Bob Hope, 1903-2003.(Obituary)
August 11, 2003... Byline: NEWSWEEK's Jack Kroll wrote this tribute to Bob Hope before his own death in 2000. Bob Hope probably rattled off a gag for every minute in the 20th century. Speed was his comic essence--he was once clocked at seven jokes a...

Perspectives.(quotations on current events)
August 11, 2003... Byline: Quotation sources from top to bottom: Newsday, New York Post, The Hill, BBC, New York Post (2), New York Times, CNN, Reuters, New York Post, Associated Press (2), Chicago Sun-Times "I believe a marriage is between a man and a...

Exclusive: Behind Al Qaeda's New Hijacking Strategy.
August 11, 2003... Byline: Mark Hosenball One unpublicized reason the Bush administration issued last week's warning about new Qaeda hijacking threats is that U.S. intelligence acquired evidence from terrorist hideouts showing how Osama bin Laden's...

Predicting Terror: Foolish Bet.(FutureMAP project)(Brief Article)
August 11, 2003... Byline: Steven Levy The way news broke last week of retired Adm. John Poindexter's pending resignation from the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) is emblematic of his troubled tenure as head of the Terrorist Information...

Political Ads: More Harm Than Good?(Brief Article)
August 11, 2003... Byline: Tamara Lipper and Holly Bailey William Pryor, the pro-life Roman Catholic attorney general from Alabama, is a high-profile example of the increasing ugliness of the battle over President George W. Bush's judicial nominations. Hoping...

The Army Cleans House.(Army leaders told to retire)(Brief Article)
August 11, 2003... Byline: John Barry In a move widely seen within the Pentagon as a purge, a dozen or more Army generals are being ushered into retirement as the Army's new chief of staff, Gen. Peter Schoomaker, takes over. In advance of Schoomaker's...

Technology: Dial With Caution.(inappropriate use of camera phones and cell phones)(Brief Article)
August 11, 2003... Byline: Meredith Sadin Capturing that special moment on film isn't easy. And if that image is a celebrity sweating on the treadmill next to you at the gym, it's just gotten a lot harder. Gyms are banning increasingly popular camera phones...

Lives: Africa.(journalist Aidan Hartley)(Brief Article)(Biography)
August 11, 2003... Byline: Joshua Hammer As a Reuters correspondent based in Nairobi in the early 1990s, Aidan Hartley was a member of a small clique of nomads who risked their lives reporting from some of the world's most hellish places. He trekked with...

It's a Bird, It's a Plane.(BirdMan suits for skydiving)(Brief Article)
August 11, 2003... Byline: BARNEY GIMBEL When the two stars of the new "Lara Croft" movie leap off the top of a skyscraper, spread their arms and glide through downtown Hong Kong, it looks like something cooked up in a special-effects studio. But it's real,...

Movies: A Real-Life Horror.("The Magdalene Sisters")(Movie Review)
August 11, 2003... Byline: Cathleen McGuigan A teen girl is raped and her family has her locked up in a prison. This sounds like life in a developing country ruled by religious extremists, but such events took place in modern-day Ireland. The harrowing new...

Transition: Sam Phillips.(Obituary)
August 11, 2003... Byline: David Gates Sam Phillips must have known 50 years ago that every paper in the world would run his obituary, and that every headline would say WHO DISCOVERED ELVIS. He was intensely proud of that, but (as he always told people, in...

Books: Read It, Don't See It.("The Official Movie Plot Generator")(Book Review)
August 11, 2003... Byline: Elise Christenson A macho NFL quarterback discovers a hidden talent for dance in a rousing adaptation of the Broadway musical. It could be a pitch to a Hollywood screenwriter, but it's not. It's one of thousands of movie plots...

The Myth of 'Big Media': The explosion of choices means almost everyone is likely to be offended by something. A lot of this hostility has focused on the FCC ownership rules.
August 11, 2003... Byline: Robert J. Samuelson Our public debates often fly off into the wild blue yonder of fantasy. So it's been with the Federal Communications Commission's new media-ownership rules. We're told that, unless the FCC's decision is reversed,...

Hiking: Just Lighten Up.(lightweight hiking and camping gear)(Buyers Guide)
August 11, 2003... Byline: Paul Tolme You call this "roughing it"? Today's hiking and camping gear is much lighter and more luxurious than ever. With tents that have built-in air mattresses and backpacks that blast your favorite MP3s--no wonder a record...