Newsweek articles from August 2005

Newsweek archives from August 2005

Dear Osama Bin Laden... A brilliant epistolary novel--which arrived on a very dark day.("Incendiary" by Chris Cleaves)(Book Review)
August 1, 2005... Byline: By Malcolm Jones It is hard to imagine an uglier coincidence: Chris Cleave's stunning debut novel, "Incendiary," the story of what happens after a bomb kills more than 1,000 people in a London soccer stadium, was published in...

Keepin' it on the Download; At first it was just music. Now companies from Hollywood to major-league sports--to TV news--are racing to cash in. Inside the 'digitainment' gold rush.(downloadable and streamed media on the Internet)(Industry Overview)
August 1, 2005... Byline: Johnnie L. Roberts (With Nicole Joseph in New York Illustration by Dustin Amery Hostetler) When--or if--the Discovery blasts off this week, cyberspace will have all the angles covered. AOL--fresh from its highly acclaimed...

Entrepreneurs: Give Me MySpace, Dude! A homegrown Web site that turned music fandom into gold.(MySpace.com and its parent company Intermix)
August 1, 2005... Byline: Brad Stone Tom Anderson is living a slightly altered but wholly modern version of the rock-and-roll dream. His San Francisco indie band, Swank, lived and died in musical obscurity in the late 1990s. But while he failed as a...

Conventional Wisdom; R.I.P. SCOTTY EDITION.(political satire)
August 1, 2005... You could hear the "Jaws" theme in Washington as Democrats smelled blood in the water and Republicans blamed "a vast left-wing conspiracy." CW Bush = Shrewd Roberts choice, but still stonewalling on whether Rove's ...

Mail Call: Responding With Stoicism and Resolve.(Letter to the Editor)
August 1, 2005... As London reeled from yet another series of terrorist explosions, our cover story on the July 7 bombings elicited sympathy, anger and solidarity from readers. The father of a U.S. soldier soon to be deployed to Iraq saw in the eyes of the young...

It Can Happen Anywhere; The killers of the global jihad have only one way of showing they're alive and active: more carnage.
August 1, 2005... Byline: Michael Hirsh, Mark Hosenball and Kevin Peraino (With Stryker Mcguire, Emily Flynn and William Underhill in London, Christopher Dickey in Paris, Gameela Ismail in Sharm al-Sheikh, Zahid Hussain and Ron Moreau in Islamabad, Sami...

The Troubles of a Trial; Trying Saddam could help to exorcise the ghosts of Iraq's brutal past. Or it could stir up new demons.(former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein)(Column)
August 1, 2005... Byline: Melinda Liu He's as shameless as ever. The Arab news channel Al Arabiya aired a video clip of Saddam Hussein last week confidently asserting his rights before an Iraqi Special Tribunal judge. "Is this how the law works?" the jailed...

How to Stop The Contagion; This is battle, not an academic seminar. We in the West have to discredit, delegitimize and dismantle barbaric ideas.(Column)
August 1, 2005... Byline: Fareed Zakaria (Write the author at comments@fareedzakaria.com.) If you want to understand what motivates suicide bombers, watch the recent movie "Downfall." Based on eyewitness accounts, it chronicles the final days inside...

The Editor's Desk.(Judge John G. Roberts, Jr., nominee to U.S. Supreme Court)(Editorial)
August 1, 2005... Byline: Mark Whitaker When you cover the legal scene in Washington, you encounter a lot of arrogant young attorneys. So when our Washington bureau chief, Daniel Klaidman, first met John Roberts 14 years ago, he was struck by the opposite:...

Diamond in the Rough; At 64, Neil Diamond is a comeback kid, with a hot-ticket summer tour and a stripped-down new album.(Interview)(Biography)
August 1, 2005... Byline: Lorraine Ali At least half a dozen framed works of needlepoint cover the office and bathroom walls of Neil Diamond's Los Angeles studio. Some are portraits of the singer sewn by fans, others are their homespun renditions of album...

The Ups and Downs of Life With a Con Artist; My father engaged in gambling, scams and illegal activities. He also read me the Odyssey.
August 1, 2005... Byline: Diana Nyad (Nyad lives in Los Angeles.) One childhood friend of the family used to say that my father reminded her a lot of Omar Sharif in his prime--but better looking. He was born in Greece and raised in Egypt, spoke seven...

Judging Roberts; He's conservative, but apolitical; confident, not cocky. Inside a deliberate mind.(Judge John G. Roberts Jr., nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court)(Cover Story)(Biography)
August 1, 2005... Byline: Evan Thomas and Stuart Taylor Jr. (With Daniel Klaidman, Debra Rosenberg, T. Trent gegax, Arian Campo-Flores, Susannah Meadows, Pat Wingert and Jessica Silver-Greenberg Graphic by John Sparks) True believers on the left and the...

Threading the Needle; The Democrats' dilemma: Fight now, or save their fire for the next round?(John G. Roberts)(Cover Story)
August 1, 2005... ***** CORRECTION: In our Aug. 1 issue, a sidebar on lobbying groups ("A User's Guide to the Groups") incorrect identifies James Dobson as a reverend. He in fact has a Ph.D. in child psychology and goes by Dr. Dobson. NEWSWEEK regrets the...

San Diego's Pole Tax; A wave of scandals roils the city's leadership ranks.(San Diego, California)
August 1, 2005... Byline: Jamie Reno San Diegans like to call their seaside paradise "America's Finest City." What else to name a place where city councilmen accept illegal campaign contributions on behalf of a strip-club owner looking to make the town safe...

A Dying Mother's Final Prayer.(brain-dead pregnant woman being kept alive until baby's birth)
August 1, 2005... Byline: Martha Brant For the pro-life movement, the center of gravity these days isn't the Supreme Court, but the Virginia Hospital Center just across the Potomac River from the Capitol. That is where 26-year-old Susan Torres lies,...

Newsmakers.(rock musician Tommy Lee)(actor Jude Law)(director Roman Polanski)(Interview)
August 1, 2005... Byline: Nicki Gostin, Devin Gordon Tommy Lee One of the most famous bad boys of rock has hopped on the reality-show gravy train with "Tommy Lee Goes to College." Lee chatted with NEWSWEEK's Nicki Gostin. Wasn't this show an excuse...

Perspectives.
August 1, 2005... Byline: Quotation sources from top to bottom, left to right: New York Times, Newsday, New York Post, Spokesman-Review, Environment News Service, Wall Street Journal, ESPN.com, AP, New York Times, E! Online "We got through that and we will...

Deals: Don't Count 'Baby CNOOC' Out.(CNOOC Ltd., Chinese bidder for purchase of U.S. petroleum company Unocal Corp.)
August 1, 2005... Byline: Allan Sloan with Sarah Schafer Even when China seems to be playing the economic game by Western rules, it does so in its own way in matters from currency to takeovers. After years of complaints by the United States and other...

Leak Investigation: The Russert Deal--What It Reveals.(testimony from "Meet the Press" host Tim Russert)(investigation into media leak of U.S. spy Valerie Plame)
August 1, 2005... Byline: Michael Isikoff A deal that special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald cut last year for NBC "Meet the Press" host Tim Russert's testimony may shed light on the emerging White House defense in the Valerie Plame leak case. The agreement...

Transition: Westmoreland.(General William Westmoreland)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
August 1, 2005... Byline: David Gates Gen. William Westmoreland, 91 "What is the answer to insurgency?" he was once asked. Westmoreland had a one-word answer: "Firepower." As commander of U.S. forces in Vietnam from 1964 to 1968, Westmoreland oversaw...

Jam It! (Online.).(new Web site "eJamming" will allow musicians to play together over the Internet)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... Byline: Benjamin Sutherland The word "intercontinental" usually evokes thoughts of planes, not music. But eJamming, a Boca Raton, Fla., start-up, plans to change that with new software that allows musicians to jam together, live, on the...

Podcasting: Talking Dirty on Your iPod.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... Byline: Nick Summers Podcasting, that baby medium, is suddenly home to a lot of adult content. Introduced to a mainstream audience just last month, the technology--radio-like programming for your iPod--that was once the chaste province of...

Forensics: How Investigators Are Searching for Natalee.(Natalee Holloway, Aruba)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... Byline: Daren Briscoe The six-week search for Natalee Holloway in Aruba--especially for fans of tech-worshiping shows like "CSI"--has raised questions about why investigators haven't been able to use high-tech equipment to find her. In...

Movies: The Color of 'Charlie'.(Tim Burton comments on casting of movie 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory')(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... Byline: Jessica Silver-Greenberg Tim Burton's 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" translates Roald Dahl's 1964 novel into a 21st-century spectacular, with special-effects Oompa-Loompas and Mike Teavee's vice updated from television to...

Celeb T Shirts: Free This Trend!(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... Byline: Anna Kuchment If last summer's fad was the plain white T shirt, this year's is the instant-celebrity logo. Moments after watching Tom Cruise on "Oprah," West Hollywood artist Sheila Cameron designed one of the first FREE KATIE tees...

Country: Soldier On.(American soldier Luke Stricklin begins country music career)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... Byline: Elise Soukup Last December, Luke Stricklin, then 21, was a foot soldier in Iraq, far away from his new bride and his birthplace, Arkadelphia, Ark. He had every reason to sing the blues--but he wrote a country song instead. Using...

Miseducating Investors; The SEC won't touch anything that appears to help firms, including getting more people covered by 401(k)s. As Homer would say, 'Doh!'.(Securities and Exchange Commission use of funds meant for teaching people how to invest)(Column)
August 1, 2005... Byline: Jane Bryant Quinn (Reporter Associate: Temma Ehrenfeld) After the first of the wall street scandals, 10 bad-guy investment firms paid $1.4 billion in fines. They floated slow apologies. They were kinda sorry their lying analysts had...

Aging: Small is Beautiful; The newest thing in end-of-life care: residences that look--and feel--like the house you've lived in all your life.
August 1, 2005... Byline: Claudia Kalb and Vanessa Juarez (With Nomi Morris) Dorothy Green had always been an independent woman. A Cadillac-driving, mink-coat-wearing, Tiparillo-smoking woman. So it was especially hard on her family members when they...

Seek and You May Find; Eager for answers, adoptive parents hire 'searchers.'.
August 1, 2005... Byline: Peg Tyre In 2001, when Kimberly Wypychowski adopted her son, Ruslan, from Ukraine, he was 5 years old and she wanted to give him everything. She bought him fancy clothes, new toys, even a motorized tractor to drive around their...

Tough Times at the Times; Decoding the management change at L.A.'s daily paper.(Los Angeles Times)
August 1, 2005... Byline: Jonathan Darman When writing about their own bosses, career-minded media reporters tend to skip the backbiting details and let their competitors get the scoop. Yet last week, when Los Angeles Times editor John Carroll announced he...

Sleeping Pills: The Next Generation.
August 1, 2005... Byline: Jennifer Barrett For a decade, Ambien has been the answer to many an insomniac's prayer--but a new generation of sleep aids that are less addictive and less likely to cause a morning-after "hangover" are about to hit the market. In...

Sex, Secret Codes And Videogames.(controversy over sex scene in computer game "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas")(Column)
August 1, 2005... Byline: Steven Levy First of all, let me express my shock--total jaw-dropped, head-slapped, loss-for-words shock--upon learning that a hidden scene in the videogame Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas depicts a somewhat graphic sexual encounter....

BlogWatch; A weekly mainstream-media snapshot of what's hot (and what's not) in the world of web logs. For full links go to newsweek.com.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... If war is hell, what does that make the Manhattan real-estate market? propertygrunt.blogspot.com takes you into the trenches. An LAPD officer's wife exposes his on-duty affair, opening up his fellow cops and their spouses to ridicule....

BACK TO SCHOOL GUIDE.(ideas for dorm room decorating)(gadgets)
August 1, 2005... Byline: Current: The staff of Current, a student-run college magazine, helped prepare this special section. A student's dorm is his 11'x14' slice of heaven. To help undergrads make the most of it, we asked a student designer, a New York...

Germs Spread Faster Than Gossip.(health care tips for college students)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... Byline: Raina Kelley When you're away from home, being sick can be scary. We could tell you to eat right, exercise and get some sleep, but you won't, so here are some other tips for taking care of yourself: Before you leave for school,...

College Life According To Felicity.(solution to student problems as seen in television program compared to suggested real-life solutions)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... Byline: Ramin Setoodeh Keri Russell sure had a tough time in college. We polled school officials on how our fave undergrad should've solved these jams. PROBLEM As a frosh: Couldn't find the textbook. FELICITY'S SOLUTION Tells...

Getting More BRRING! For Your Buck.(saving on cellular telephone service costs)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... Byline: Alice Fishburn Sure, e-mailing drunken photos from your cell phone can be fun. But not when you're blowing your semester's budget on the bill. To save, follow these tips: ^ Go for a deal that lets you rack up daytime minutes,...

Keeping Your Laptop Out Of Trouble.(locks and tracking software to prevent computer theft)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2005... Byline: Ella Hoffman Accidentally deleting your term paper sounds pretty bad, but how about having your whole laptop stolen? Here are some tips for keeping your computer safe while at school. ^ Laptop cables, or "bike locks" for your...

Why Not Raven? She's young, rich and a star--but not a celebrity like Lindsay. It's time to get our priorities straight.(actress Raven Symone)
August 1, 2005... Byline: Allison Samuels Celebrities gripe about the press all the time, but Raven Symone's hard-luck story was a new one on us: the actress says that at her 19th-birthday party last year, only a single paparazzo showed up. "It was so sad,"...

Baking in the 'Burbs; Reefer madness, from the Little Network That Might.(Showtime Entertainment Co.'s new television comedy "Weeds")(Television Program Review)
August 1, 2005... Byline: Marc Peyser It's the morning of the Emmy nominations, and the folks on "Good Morning America" are recapping the chosen ones. They're just getting to best actor in a drama series. Diane Sawyer: "And Hank Azaria, of course, of...

Scrap Metal, Not Soldiers; Will the newest addition to city streets be a guy sitting in front of a Starbucks with a cup and a cardboard sign that says IRAQ WAR VET?
August 8, 2005... Byline: Anna Quindlen For my money one of the finest war movies ever made was the 1946 Oscar winner "The Best Years of Our Lives." There isn't a battlefield in it. Instead it's a story that begins as three soldiers head back to their...

Murdoch Family Values; Why did Lachlan resign? Inside the tortured history of a real-life dynasty that mixes family with business.
August 8, 2005... Byline: Johnnie L. Roberts (With Melissa Roberts in Sydney) By all public appearances, Lachlan Murdoch's eventual ascension to the throne of New York-based News Corp., the global media empire founded by his father, Keith Rupert Murdoch, was...

The New School of Rock; Promoters cut prices and add perks. 'Grass pass' anyone?
August 8, 2005... Byline: Jennifer Ordonez When '80s metal band Motley Crue announced late last year they were reuniting and ready to rock hard on the road, concert promoters, coming off one of their worst years ever, yawned. It didn't matter that Tommy Lee...

Conventional Wisdom; SUMMER PORK EDITION.
August 8, 2005... Congress ladles out pork in transportation, energy and misplaced homeland security. Good news: they're out for recess. With record summer temperatures and irrefutable scientific evidence, the whole world is confronting the global-warming...

Mail Call: Rove's New Challenge.(letters to the editor)(Letter to the Editor)
August 8, 2005... The majority of readers responding to our July 25 cover story on Karl Rove think the president's political strategist and right-hand man should be punished for leaking a CIA operative's identity to reporters. "Any government official who...

Bombers Next Door; Four dead and four others safely in custody, but British police worry this is only the beginning.
August 8, 2005... Byline: Mark Hosenball (With Rana Foroohar and Emily Flynn in Leeds and Christopher Dickey in Paris) The weird thing was how ordinary they all looked. Each new glimpse of the eight suspected foot soldiers of Al Qaeda last week only...

Drawing Down Iraq; Drastic troop cuts are in the Pentagon's secret plans.
August 8, 2005... Byline: Michael Hirsh and John Barry (With Joe Cochrane in Baghdad) Donald Rumsfeld doesn't like long-term occupations. He's always made that clear. After U.S. forces took Baghdad, the Defense secretary had plans to reduce the U.S. presence...

Talking With The Enemy; Part of what's bringing these people to the negotiating table is their fear that Iraq's insurgency is being taken over by jihadists.
August 8, 2005... Byline: Fareed Zakaria (Write the author at comments@fareedzakaria.com.) Gen. George Casey's remark last week that the United States might begin to draw down troops in Iraq reminds me of the words of another George almost 40 years ago. In...

The Editor's Desk.
August 8, 2005... Byline: Mark Whitaker The nation's latest drug epidemic first hit with a vengeance in California, so L.A. bureau chief David J. Jefferson has witnessed its toll firsthand. A fortysomething friend got fired from a Hollywood job because of...

Coming to a Theater Near You; Bad news at the box office has Hollywood thinking about tomorrow. What the best and brightest predict for 2015.
August 8, 2005... Byline: Sean Smith (With Devin Gordon) Hollywood's worried about you. For decades it's just assumed you were stopping by the multiplex every weekend, but lately you've been--let's face it--a little distant. Box-office grosses are down...

Eye of the Beholder; Indie visions from two masters and a newcomer.(Movie Review)
August 8, 2005... Byline: David Ansen Jim Jarmusch had it from the start. So did Gus Van Sant. So, it seems, does Miranda July. It's an original way of looking at the world. A sensibility unmistakably their own. A singular style. When Jarmusch's...

Snap Judgment.(In the Moood for Love)(Movie Review)
August 8, 2005... Byline: David Ansen 2046 Directed by Wong Kar Wai No one captures the ache of missed romantic connections like the director of "In the Mood for Love." In this gorgeously melancholic fresco of love affairs, Tony Leung Chiu Wai plays a...

A Season With the Good News Bears; The girls on my softball team played to win, but they also showed their sportsmanship with style.
August 8, 2005... Byline: Paul Gilbert (Gilbert lives in San Anselmo, Calif.) I rode a roller coaster non-stop for two months this year. No, I wasn't trying to get into the Guinness Book of World Records or aiming for status as some kind of amusement-park...

America's Most Dangerous Drug; It creates a potent, long-lasting high--until the user crashes and, too often, literally burns. How meth quietly marched across the country and up the socioeconomic ladder--and the wreckage it leaves in its wake. As law enforcement fights a losing battle on the ground, officials ask: are the Feds doing all they can to contain this epidemic?(Cover Story)
August 8, 2005... Byline: David J. Jefferson (With Hilary Shenfeld, Andrew Murr, Arian Campo-Flores, Sarah Childress, Catharine Skipp, Susannah Meadows, Dirk Johnson, Jessica Silver-Greenberg and Anne Underwood Graphic by Josh Ulick and Karl Gude) The leafy...

Support Groups: 'This Is My Last Chance'; Meth-ravaged mothers in Iowa are finding a new way to heal.(Cover Story)
August 8, 2005... Byline: Dirk Johnson It looked like a meeting of the PTA. But these young Iowa mothers were talking about being seduced, and then deeply scarred, by the dark magic of meth. Cory Mathahs, 37, a single mother of three, turned to the drug for...

The Fallout: 'I Felt My Face Just Melting'; Burn units struggle to cope with the flow of meth users straining their resources.(Cover Story)
August 8, 2005... Byline: Arian Campo-Flores (With Catharine Skipp) Wired on methamphetamine and craving more, Ricky Dale Houchens set out one night last November to cook a fresh batch of the drug. He met some buddies in rural Scottsville, Ky., at a trailer...

Roe's Army Reloads; They've been dreading this moment for decades. How the pro-choice movement is readying for Roberts--and navigating a critical political crossroads.
August 8, 2005... Byline: Debra Rosenberg The day before George W. Bush tapped John Roberts for the Supreme Court, a group of abortion-rights activists gathered around the conference table at NARAL Pro-Choice America. Panicked by the departure of Justice...

Back on the Bridge; It's been 40 years since the unrest in Selma. A lot has changed. But not enough.
August 8, 2005... Byline: Ellis Cose Bloody Sunday 1965 is Selma, Alabama's defining moment. It is the day America peered into the Old South's soul and saw a scene of such unimaginable ugliness that stunned disbelief was the natural response. Even those who...

The Nominee: Roberts at the Revolution; As interest groups sift his record in the Reagan White House, colleagues recall the mood at the dawn of a conservative era.
August 8, 2005... Byline: Evan Thomas and Daniel Klaidman (With Michael Isikoff) The memos were not exactly smoking guns, but they were sure to add fire to Judge John Roberts's confirmation hearings. When Roberts was nominated for the U.S. Supreme Court by...

Newsmakers.
August 8, 2005... Byline: Nicki Gostin, Marc Peyser Benjamin Bratt Benjamin Bratt is on a roll. He's got a new movie, "The Great Raid," out this month, a new television series called "E-Ring" and a new baby on the way. He spoke with NEWSWEEK's Nicki...

London: Why Shoot To Kill?
August 8, 2005... Byline: Mark Hosenball In the wake of 9/11, after examining how other countries handle confrontations with suicide bombers, British police recommended special procedures for police sharpshooters. The new policy was used disastrously when...

Exclusive: Secret Memo--Send to Be Tortured.
August 8, 2005... Byline: Michael Isikoff An FBI agent warned superiors in a memo three years ago that U.S. officials who discussed plans to ship terror suspects to foreign nations that practice torture could be prosecuted for conspiring to violate U.S....

Laura: Power Reading.(Brief Article)
August 8, 2005... Byline: Tamara Lipper When President Bush spends August in Texas, his West Wing aides insist on calling it a working vacation. But First Lady Laura Bush is looking forward to kicking back: hosting friends, family and only the occasional...

Soldiers: War on 'Milblogs'.(Brief Article)
August 8, 2005... Byline: Martha Brant In his weblog from Iraq, Spc. Leonard Clark of the Arizona Army National Guard spoke out against a war he thought a "travesty." According to his battalion commander, he also jeopardized operational security (OPSEC)....

Politics: Flap Over the Frist Flip.(Brief Article)
August 8, 2005... Byline: Richard Wolffe Sen. Bill Frist's decision to break with the president over stem-cell research annoyed Bush's aides. "He's changed his position on this before," said one senior Bush adviser, who declined to be identified so he could...

The Grave: The Ultimate House Call.(clinicopathological conference delves into people from the past)
August 8, 2005... Byline: Claudia Kalb It's not hogwarts and dragon pox. But a new paper out in last week's Lancet medical journal offers some great scientific wizardry. The subject: King George III--his red urine, his dusty old hair and his madness. ...

Study: Eye on the Storm.(Brief Article)
August 8, 2005... Byline: Mary Carmichael Since the days of Homer, sailors have theorized about the signals of a coming storm (the presence of dogs, cormorants or whistling sailors) and the signals of calm waters (black cats, swallows or, oddly enough,...

Database: Child Care.(iris scanning will help identify children)(Brief Article)
August 8, 2005... Byline: Lynn Waddell and Arian Campo-Flores Missing-children posters usually list age, weight, height and eye color. But the Children's Identification and Location Database (CHILD) Project is concerned with just one identifier: the iris....

NFL: Working Overtime.
August 8, 2005... Byline: Mark Starr Andy Benoit has written his NFL preview for nine seasons now--rather remarkable, since he's just 19 years old. This year the Boise, Idaho, teen scored big: a three-book deal with Ballantine. He talked "Andy Benoit's...

Products: Gosh! He's 'Dynamite.'.("Napoleon Dynamitee" makes its mark on marketing)(Brief Article)
August 8, 2005... Byline: Ramin Setoodeh Now you can watch "Napoleon Dynamite" and share your bed with him, too. Sheets based on last summer's sleeper are about to hit stores, along with lamps, energy drinks and a talking pen ("You guys are retarded ")....

The Big News That We Miss; Inflation is now running in the low single digits. We take this for granted and forget how much its steep drop has helped stabilize the economy.
August 8, 2005... Byline: Robert Samuelson We in the news business often miss big stories because they aren't announced by a corpse, scandal, invasion or controversy. One important story we're missing today is the absence of sharply higher inflation. Look...

How to Fix School Lunch; Celebrity chefs, politicians and concerned parents are joining forces to improve the meals kids eat every day.(Correction Notice)
August 8, 2005... ***** CORRECTION: In "How To Fix School Lunch" (Aug. 8), Susan Combs was misidentified as Texas Education commissioner. She is commissioner of the Texas Department of Agriculture. NEWSWEEK regrets the error. ***** Byline: Peg...

Blood Stains Miami's Herald; A politician commits suicide and a star reporter loses his job.(illegal taping)
August 8, 2005... Byline: Jonathan Darman (With Rebecca Wakefield in Miami) Art Teele sounded different to Jim DeFede--and not in a good way. A columnist for The Miami Herald, DeFede had talked to Teele, a former Miami commissioner, countless times in the...

The New Crystal Ball: It's the Internet; Giants of Web commerce like Yahoo offer gobs of up-to-the-second marketinginformation.
August 8, 2005... Byline: Steven Levy If you were selling a product to Generation Y--the age group between 10 and 27, which has yet to come up with a melodious moniker--who would be your ideal spokesperson? At one point in marketing history, answering that...

BlogWatch.(Brief Article)
August 8, 2005... A weekly mainstream-media snapshot of what's hot (and what's not) in the ever-widening world of web logs. The Hill recently compiled its list of Washington, D.C.'s 50 most beautiful people. dceiver.blogspot.com weighs in on the picks. ...

Shuttle Ups and Downs; Discovery succeeds, but NASA may have failed its mission.
August 8, 2005... Byline: Mary Carmichael (With Mark Hosenball) It is NASA's old reliable, the craft the agency depends on when it needs to prove something big. Discovery was the shuttle that delivered the Hubble telescope and 77-year-old John Glenn into...

Health: How to Quit the Cure.
August 8, 2005... Byline: Raina Kelley (With Karen Springen) Two years ago, Kimberly Koehlinger of Ft. Wayne, Ind., quit the Prozac she'd been taking for 15 years to treat anxiety and depression. She hated side effects like night sweats and insomnia. So...

The Checklist; Our top picks for the week ahead.(Brief Article)
August 8, 2005... BOOK tickets to the Grand Championship Sumo tournament at Las Vegas's Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino, Oct. 7 through 9 ($75 to $175; 877-632-7400). It's the sport's first trip to the Strip. BUY the Microplane Foot File Set. The folks who...

Road Test: Dodge Ram SRT10; Keep On Truckin'.(Brief Article)
August 8, 2005... Byline: Vanessa Juarez I roll up to a stoplight and the guy in the next lane is checking out my wheels. I think he's thinking, Not bad. Then, he shouts: "Is that your husband's truck?" The Dodge Ram SRT10 is a red-blooded ride with...

Technology: Razzle Zazzle 'Em.(Brief Article)
August 8, 2005... Byline: Brad Stone Wearing a T shirt that says I'M WITH STUPID is lame. But wearing the same shirt with your husband's name printed at the bottom is funny. "Customized e-commerce" is the new buzzword in Silicon Valley, thanks to a $16...

ASK TIP SHEET.(Brief Article)
August 8, 2005... Byline: Alice Fishburn Does the ketchup in the little packets from the drive-through stay good forever? When should I throw them away? --Jason Oswald, Fishers, Ind. Nothing lasts forever, and packets of ketchup are no exception....

Family: Ethics, Pass It On.(Brief Article)
August 8, 2005... Byline: Karen Springen It's always nice when Uncle Charlie leaves you a fat inheritance. But a growing number of people are handing down something extra: an ethical will. The document, which can be a simple one-page sheet or an elaborate...

Travel: Room For Extras.
August 8, 2005... Byline: Ramin Setoodeh Travel web sites can help you find great bargains on hotel rooms. But when using one, you'll want to take a few steps to make sure you're not getting shortchanged. Some sites, like hotels.com and expedia.com , have...

Pets: Dog Days of Summer.(Brief Article)
August 8, 2005... Byline: Alexandra Silver By now, most humans know to wear sunscreen. But what about pets? "Just the fact that animals have fur doesn't mean that the sun can't harm them," says the Humane Society's Nancy Peterson. In fact, light-colored...