Newsweek articles from August 2007

Newsweek archives from August 2007

How Much Jail Time?(punishment for women who take abortion)
August 6, 2007... Byline: Anna Quindlen Buried among prairie dogs and amateur animation shorts on YouTube is a curious little mini-documentary shot in front of an abortion clinic in Libertyville, Ill. The man behind the camera is asking demonstrators who...

Downloading Heaven; The audio-Bible craze poses a question: should Jesus and Madonna (the singing one) go on the same iPod?
August 6, 2007... Byline: Tony Dokoupil When people speak of hearing God, they usually don't mean they can adjust the volume. But a wave of new audio Bibles with Hollywood talent, chintzy sound effects and overwrought musical scores is bringing God into the...

The Boomer Files: Meaningful Pursuits; From heritage tours to farm-to-table dining, today's retirees (and soon-to-be-retirees) are reinventing the autumn years.
August 6, 2007... Byline: Jerry Adler (With Charlene Dy, Christina Gillham and Margot Edelman) It started with a honeymoon in 1979: Michele Gran and Bud Philbrook, two young baby boomers soaked in the idealism of their age, decided to forgo a romantic...

A Need for (Higher) Speed; Why some people over 60 like to drive way over 60.
August 6, 2007... Byline: Charlene Dy When Dick Lippert's wife, Cynthia, decided to become a minister, the former telecommunications CEO realized he needed a weekend hobby. In April 2000, Lippert, who calls himself a "car fanatic" and an "adrenaline...

Social Networking And Class Warfare.(MySpace.com Inc. and Facebook Inc. )
August 6, 2007... Byline: Steven Levy For young people, the burning question of our time is "Facebook or MySpace?" It's the contemporary equivalent to a previous generation's "Paul or John?" or "Betty or Veronica?" Though there's considerable overlap...

BlogWatch: What's Hot and What's Not; A mainstream-media snapshot of what's hot (and what's not) in the ever-widening world of weblogs.
August 6, 2007... The Jewish Daily Forward (forward.com) looks at the edgy Jewish humor of the predominantly Jewish staff at gawker.com. As the world of professional basketball continues to be rocked by ?the NBA referee scandal, truehoop.com gets a cross...

'I'm About to Lose You'; Cell users are griping, and Washington is listening.(telecommunications industry under siege by the United States House of Congress)
August 6, 2007... Byline: Eleazar David Melendez Hate your cell-phone company? If you answered yes (and chances are you did), just be thankful you're not one of the 175,000 customers of bankrupt Amp'd Mobile who were informed last week, by text message,...

Everyone Wants It, But Not Everyone Wants to Be First.(Apple Inc.'s iPhone)(Brief article)
August 6, 2007... Byline: Jennifer Ordonez Know how to spot an optimist? You might look for someone carrying an iPhone. Only a month has passed since Apple's launch of its first cell phone. But since then, the gadget--which costs $499 to $599 and includes a...

Mail Call: Going Where No Man's Gone Before.(Letter to the editor)
August 6, 2007... Readers hailed the new medical techniques, described in our July 23 cover story, that delay brain death and improve survival for victims of heart attacks and cardiac arrest. "My 74-year-old father was put under induced hypothermia last year...

The Editor's Desk.(animal slaughter in Congo's Virunga National Park)
August 6, 2007... Byline: Daniel Klaidman When NEWSWEEK's Africa bureau chief, Scott Johnson, went out with a patrol in Congo's Virunga National Park to investigate the killing of rare mountain gorillas, what he and photographer Brent Stirton found was far...

The Great Lyme Debate; Patients ache as doctors disagree about whether there is a chronic form of the tick-borne malady.(Lyme disease)
August 6, 2007... Byline: Mary Carmichael There's a debate raging over Lyme disease, although you'd never know it unless you've been paying close attention--because on the surface it sounds like the dullest argument imaginable. Last year, the Infectious...

A Cure for Oil Addicts; Energy's Future: Amory Lovins tells how we can leave the age of gas pumps profitably and painlessly.(Interview)
August 6, 2007... Byline: Fareed Zakaria Amory B. Lovins talks big. He proposes to wean America off oil by the 2040s, touts ultralight cars and tells some of the most powerful corporate executives in the world, like those at Wal-Mart and Texas Instruments,...

Gorilla Warfare; Even after 10 years of war, rangers are stunned by the mysterious killings of great apes in Africa's oldest park.(Virunga National Park, Congo)(Cover story)
August 6, 2007... Byline: Scott Johnson The men huddled under billowing green ponchos and shouldered their AK-47s nervously. Summer rains drenched the plains and canopied jungle of Virunga National Park, a vast preserve along the eastern border of the...

When the Skinheads Ruled England.(This Is England)(Movie review)(Brief article)
August 6, 2007... Byline: David Ansen Shane Meadows's raw, exuberant "This Is England" pops off the screen from the moment the opening credits roll--propelled by Toots & the Maytals--and never flags. The setting is the English Midlands in the summer of...

The Fast and The Curious; 'The Bourne Ultimatum' races to its flashy finish.(Movie review)
August 6, 2007... Byline: David Ansen How fast and furious is the third installment of the Bourne trilogy? Just in the first 15 minutes it charges from a chase in Moscow to CIA headquarters in Langley, Va.; to Turin, Italy; Paris, London and New York City,...

Let's Think Outside The Box of Bad Cliches; Sloppy writing leads to sloppy thinking, which is why I have a 'bone of contention' with trite phrases.
August 6, 2007... Byline: Gregory Pence (Pence lives in Birmingham, Ala.) As a professor of bioethics, I strive to teach my students that clear writing fosters clear thinking. But as I was grading a stack of blue books today, I discovered so many cliches...

Well, What Do You Know? The Clinton-Obama dustup wasn't just the usual campaign sparring. It raised key questions about what 'experience' means when it comes to being president.(Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton )
August 6, 2007... Byline: Richard Wolffe Does Barack Obama have have enough experience to be president? This is the question Hillary Clinton would like to spend the next seven months debating. Her slogan is that she's "ready to lead"; she cites her...

The Renegade Returns; McCain, now an underdog, likes where he finds himself.(John McCain)
August 6, 2007... Byline: Holly Bailey John McCain has been campaigning in New Hampshire for months, but when he took the stage last week at a town-hall meeting in Keene, it felt like a reunion tour. Journey's "Don't Stop Believin' " pumped on the sound...

What We Talk About When We Talk About Bonds; Booing masks a self-loathing for our own evasions of fair play.(Barry Bonds and other sports scandals)
August 6, 2007... Byline: David Gates (With Allison Samuels) Since the news broke that the Chicago white Sox had thrown the 1919 World Series, has the sports world had a nastier week? Or should we forget even that qualification? The Black Sox scandal...

Sticking to His Story; Republicans don't believe him. The FBI director contradicted him. How does Gonzales hang on?(Robert Mueller and Alberto Gonzales)
August 6, 2007... Byline: Michael Isikoff Late on the afternoon of March 10, 2004, eight congressional leaders filed into the White House Situation Room for an urgent briefing on one of the Bush administration's top secrets: a classified surveillance...

Newsmakers.(Catherine Zeta-Jones and Lindsay Lohan)(Interview)
August 6, 2007... Byline: Nicki Gostin Q & A: Catherine Zeta-Jones Zeta-Jones plays a chef in the movie "No Reservations." She spoke to Nicki Gostin. Is it true you couldn't boil water? I can, but I must admit I never got boiling an egg right....

Perspectives: Quotes in the News.(Quotation)(Brief article)
August 6, 2007... "I can't believe it's happening to us." NBA Commissioner David Stern, on allegations that referee Tim Donaghy bet on games he officiated "The last couple of days have not been friendly." Brian Sack, an economist at forecaster...

Conventional Wisdom: Tour De Farce Edition.
August 6, 2007... Whistle-blower tells Congress that Kuwait construction company "kidnapped" Filipinos to build U.S. Embassy in Baghdad. And no one notices... Bush (down) New documentary shows W so disengaged on Iraq that he wouldn't read a one-page memo....

An 'Intel Gap': What We're Missing.(National Security Agency)
August 6, 2007... Byline: Mark Hosenball Six years after 9/11 , U.S. intel officials are complaining about the emergence of a major "gap" in their ability to secretly eavesdrop on suspected terrorist plotters. In a series of increasingly anxious pleas to...

A Bad Buzz at NASA.(National Aeronautics and Space Administration's investigation on astronauts' intoxication )(Brief article)
August 6, 2007... Byline: Catharine Skipp and Arian Campo-Flores A few astronauts may have given new meaning to the term "flying high." Last week NASA disclosed that an independent review panel had "identified some episodes of heavy use of alcohol by...

Fast Chat: Getting Ready in Beijing.(Olympic event in 2008, Tu Mingde )(Interview)(Brief article)
August 6, 2007... Byline: Melinda Liu Tu Mingde first became involved in China's Olympic efforts in 1972. Now Tu is assistant to the president of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad (BOCOG), which is responsible for the...

BeliefWatch: Christ-like.(scrutiny of Harry Potter books by conservative Christian leaders)(Brief article)
August 6, 2007... Byline: Lisa Miller Have you finished reading? What do you think? Is Harry Potter a Christian story after all? Harry has made news, ever since his arrival on the scene in 1998, for provoking the ire of some right-wing Christians who...

'Leave the Guy Alone'.(San Francisco Giants' Barry Bonds)(Brief article)
August 6, 2007... Byline: Mark Hosenball Are the feds ever going to wrap up their criminal investigation of San Francisco Giants star Barry Bonds? Lawyers close to the investigation say there is little doubt the Bonds investigation, which has been underway...

A Life In Books: Natasha Trethewey.(Brief article)
August 6, 2007... Poet Natasha Trethewey won the Pulitzer Prize for "Native Guard," her latest book of prose inspired by historical events. These books shaped her personal history. My Five Most Important Books "The Diary of Anne Frank." I've loved...

The Color Of Sales.(green homes in demand)(Brief article)
August 6, 2007... Byline: Karen Springen The housing slump notwithstanding, sellers of ecofriendly homes are seeing green. "Our local real-estate market is in the tank, but we're hiring people left and right to try to keep up with demand," says David Stitt,...

A New Metric, for Now.(internet traffic)(Brief article)
August 6, 2007... Byline: Nick Summers In July, when Nielsen// NetRatings rejiggered its Internet traffic measurements to emphasize time spent at a given site, almost everyone cheered--even some of the sites that fell in the rankings. The old way rewarded...

When Silence Isn't Golden.(United States' support of the elderly people)
August 6, 2007... Byline: Robert J. Samuelson If you haven't noticed, the major presidential candidates--Republican and Democratic--are dodging one of the thorniest problems they'd face if elected: the huge budget costs of aging baby boomers. In last week's...

A Math Makeover; OMG! Actress and mathematician Danica McKellar wants girls to know that being good at numbers is cool.
August 6, 2007... Byline: Peg Tyre When you think about what young Hollywood actresses get up to in their spare time these days, you're likely to envision wild parties, rehab or jail. When Danica McKellar, Winnie on the '90s hit television show "The Wonder...

Cry of the Wild; Last week four gorillas were slaughtered in Congo. With hunting on the rise, our most majestic animals are facing a new extinction crisis.(Virunga National Park, Congo)
August 6, 2007... Byline: Sharon Begley (With Scott Johnson in Virunga Park and Julie Scelfo in New York) On the lush plains of Congo's Virunga National Park last week, the convoy of porters rounded the final hill and trooped into camp. They gently set down...

Be Good To Your Bones.(osteoporosis)
August 6, 2007... Byline: Karen Springen To judge by those ubiquitous ads, just about every adult woman in America should be worried about osteoporosis, a skeletal disorder characterized by thinning bones. And since the ads are paid for by pharmaceutical...

The Checklist; Our top picks for the week ahead.(List)
August 6, 2007... "Hot Fuzz." A sly sendup of the high-octane Hollywood action movie, this Brit comedy from the team behind "Shaun of the Dead" sends an overqualified London cop (Simon Pegg) to a quaint English village. myhound.com. List your favorite...

It's Smokin'.(grills)(Brief article)
August 6, 2007... Byline: Tara Weingarten For an alternative to flipping burgers on the grill this summer, take a cue from down-home Southern barbecue: try smoking. This technique differs from grilling in that meats are cooked at significantly lower...

Now, More Neighborly; Road Test / Subaru Tribeca.(Product/service evaluation)(Brief article)
August 6, 2007... Byline: Tara Weingarten When it was introduced four years ago, the Tribeca was bogged down with the confusing model designation B9 (the Subaru internal code name) and had such aggressive styling that most Americans ignored it. So with this...

A Hola, Buenos Aires!(Argentina)(Brief article)
August 6, 2007... Byline: Michelle Jana Chan Join Europeans making the most of a weak peso or Americans jetting in for photo shoots with sexy Argentine models against crumbling urban backdrops. Shop: Argentina is cheap even for those bearing U.S....

Getting Social.(websites for party planning)(Brief article)
August 6, 2007... Byline: Cathy Lu Planning a summer shindig? From firming up a date to sending out invites, these event-planning sites will help you get the party started. MyPunchbowl (mypunchbowl.com ). Before you dole out invites, send a Pick-a-Date...

Growing Pains; In most sequels, time has marched on. Not for Disney's 'High School Musical 2.'.
August 6, 2007... Byline: Ramin Setoodeh It's springtime in St. George, Utah, and the hills are alive with the sound of "High School Musical." The production has invaded this small desert town to film a sequel, much to the delight of the students at Coral...

Road Rules; The novel that launched the Beats, the hippies and designer jeans turns 50. But this legendary 'joyride' is actually the saddest book you'll ever read--even with God on every page. Time for another look.(Critical essay)
August 13, 2007... Byline: David Gates Jack Kerouac's "On The Road" gets the full 50th anniversary treatment next month, and both cheerleaders and hand-wringers acknowledge that it radically changed American culture--somehow or other. True, the National...

The Best of Flights, The Worst of Flights.(air travel)
August 13, 2007... Byline: Daniel Gross Flying today is a Dickensian affair. Flight diaries read like production notes for "Oliver": endless lines, screaming children, basic necessities confiscated, uncomfortable physical inspections, cramped conditions and...

Forward Into Battle; With The Wall Street Journal and a new business network, Rupert Murdoch and Fox News chief Roger Ailes plan their next move: all-out war.
August 13, 2007... Byline: Johnnie L. Roberts Rupert Murdoch, owner-in-waiting of The Wall Street Journal, is taking the high road. After a bitter three-month battle to win approval from enough bickering Bancrofts to buy their Dow Jones & Co., the mogul...

Mail Call: Staying True to Their Faith and Their Country.(Letter to the editor)
August 13, 2007... While readers of our cover story welcome Muslim Americans in their midst, some were unable to shake memories of 9/11. One said, "There is no doubt that Americans who happen to be Muslim are contributing a lot to our country. Look around--you...

The Editor's Desk.(Editorial)
August 13, 2007... Byline: Jon Meacham In the issue of NEWSWEEK dated April 28, 1975--the cover that week, about the pending fall of Saigon, was called "The Last Battle" --the magazine ran what is probably the most-cited single-page story in our history....

White-Haired Guy Gets Mad.(Chris Dodd)
August 13, 2007... Byline: George F. Will Chris Dodd's modest ambition is to get Democratic primary voters to say: "We want to give the white-haired guy a chance." The color of his hair is the most that most Democrats know about the five-term senator from...

Surge of Suicide Bombers; The Iraq war has turned into a veritable 'martyr' factory, unlike any seen in previous conflicts.
August 13, 2007... Byline: Rod Nordland and Babak Dehghanpisheh (With Larry Kaplow and Iraqi staff in Baghdad, and Christopher Dickey in Paris) In the video that serves as his last will and testament, the youthful, well-dressed Saudi, known only as "Fatima's...

To Get on the Same Page; A stint in an Israeli jail inspired a Palestinian educator to devise a different approach to teaching history.
August 13, 2007... Byline: Joanna Chen Sami Adwan is the very model of a soft-spoken professor. He measures his words, and listens carefully to what others have to say. Yet while pursuing an education Ph.D. at the University of San Francisco in the 1980s,...

Is It Too 'Hot' in Here? 'SNL' vet Andy Samberg's film career is off to a bumpy start. Then again, so were Sandler's and Farley's and ...
August 13, 2007... Byline: Devin Gordon According to "Saturday Night Live" wunderkind and comedy cinephile Andy Samberg, the ideal length for a funny movie is approximately 90 minutes. Samberg knows this because he's done the research. When he and his...

When They Were Kings; Ingmar Bergman, 89, and Michelangelo Antonioni, 94.(Obituary)
August 13, 2007... Byline: David Ansen On the same day, two giants of the cinema, gone. For anyone who grew up in the golden age of cinephilia--that remarkable period between the end of the 1950s and the mid-1970s when movies held pride of place at the...

The Streets Change, But Memories Endure; Though gentrification has made my childhood neighborhood unrecognizable, it's still home to me.
August 13, 2007... Byline: Kenji Jasper (Jasper lives in Brooklyn, N.Y.) I grew up in the 1980s and '90s in a Washington, D.C., housing development called Fairfax Village. Back then, it was a neighborhood where class lines blurred. Walking down the street,...

Not-So-Hidden Power; She wields tremendous influence over her husband's would-be presidential campaign. But who is Jeri Thompson--and why won't the campaign discuss her?
August 13, 2007... Byline: Holly Bailey Presidential candidates always make a big deal of the advice they get from their wives. Ronald Reagan told voters that Nancy was his closest adviser; Bill Clinton said Hillary was so crucial to his team that electing...

Show 'Em Whatcha Got; Conscious of their community's financial clout, gay activists want action on equality issues, not just talk.
August 13, 2007... Byline: Jonathan Darman (With Katie Connolly and Margot Edelman) Gay men and lesbians have always had a soft spot for Hillary Clinton. In the mid-'90s, when "homosexual" was still a dirty word in much of the country, Bill Clinton and his...

A Last Stand on the Last Frontier; Alaskans are starting to wonder if the era of 'Uncle Ted' is coming to an end.(Senator Ted Stevens)
August 13, 2007... Byline: Tony Hopfinger When federal agents raided the home of Ted Stevens in an Alaska ski town last week, looking for evidence in a bribery probe, they weren't just investigating the most senior member of the U.S. Senate. They were also...

A Red Play for The Golden State.( balloting process in Californiia)
August 13, 2007... Byline: Jonathan Alter Our way of electing presidents has always been fer-tile ground for mischief. But there's sensible mischief--toying with existing laws and the Constitution to reflect popular will--and then there's the other kind,...

Death on the Mississippi.
August 13, 2007... Byline: Margaret Nelson Brinkhaus, Eve Conant and Andrew Romano The moments before the disaster were unremarkable: rush-hour traffic; a car horn; drivers inching home from work. And then, in an instant, the world collapsed. "I felt some...

Newsmakers.(Interview)
August 13, 2007... Byline: Ramin Setoodeh, Nicki Gostin A New View From Star Jones At a recent breakfast, Star Jones orders a single scrambled egg with cheese. The waiter brings her two by mistake. "That's too much!" Star squeals, shoveling the extra egg...

Perspectives: Quotes in the News.
August 13, 2007... "I think it was something of a miracle." Minneapolis Fire Chief Jim Clack, on the low number of deaths as a result of the city's rush-hour bridge collapse "Regardless of how reforms might inconvenience us or impact our personal...

Conventional Wisdom: Foxy Dow Jones Edition; Will the Rupe ruin The Wall Street Journal? Eventually. But at least he hasn't screwed up "The Simpsons" yet.
August 13, 2007... Gonzo (down) Truth-challenged A.G. is hanging by a thread, and now impeachment is on the table. Will he soon be gone-zo? Hillary (up) Bona fide front runner isn't making mistakes, and polls are high. But it's a long way to Tipperary. ...

Looking For a Leaker.(suspect in disclosing warrantless eavesdropping program)
August 13, 2007... Byline: Michael Isikoff The controversy over President Bush's warrantless surveillance program took another surprise turn last week when a team of FBI agents, armed with a classified search warrant, raided the suburban Washington home of a...

Obama's Tough Talk.(Barack Obama)
August 13, 2007... Byline: Michael Hirsh In a new foreign-policy speech, Barack Obama retuned his message by calling not just for a withdrawal from Iraq, but for "taking the fight to the terrorists" in Afghanistan and Pakistan by sending more U.S. troops...

Crime: 'Four in the Backyard'.(dead fetuses)
August 13, 2007... Byline: Suzanne Smalley Christy Freeman seemed like any mom, juggling four teenagers and the taxi company she ran. But last week, in the Ocean City, Md., home Freeman shared with her kids and longtime boyfriend, authorities found the...

A Cool Summer.(season for good American films)(Brief article)
August 13, 2007... Byline: Sean Smith Summer has been blockbuster time for three decades now. But this season of "Pirates" and "Transformers" has also become a season of Oscar contenders. There are already three possible best-actress nominees from films...

A Life In Books: Jon Krakauer.(book preferences of Jon Krakauer)(Brief article)
August 13, 2007... It isn't libelous to say that Jon Krakauer likes to get high. Before he was anacclaimed journalist, he was a revered rock climber, having challenged peaks like Mount Everest. Here are the books he revisits most often when he's closer to sea...

An Unsecret Identity.(Thom Creed as gay superhero in "Hero")
August 13, 2007... Byline: Karen Springen In 1954, psychiatrist Fredric Wertham, citing the bare, parted legs of Batman's ward, Robin, said comic books promoted homosexuality. Since then there have been questions about other characters in tights. But no...

Monkey See, Monkey Sue (for Legal Custody).(rights of chimpanzees)
August 13, 2007... Byline: Sanhita Sen Are chimpanzees more like babies or bicycles? Put another way: are they beings with basic rights, or property to be returned to an owner? The answer may decide the fate of Emma and Jackson, two chimps at the center of a...

BeliefWatch: Banned?(prohibited books in prison)
August 13, 2007... Byline: Lisa Miller Moshe Milstein, a religious Jew who is incarcerated at the federal prison in Otisville, N.Y., wants his Maimonides back. Officials at the Otisville prison recently removed hundreds of books from the chapel library...

Movies: Snap Judgment; Our Critics Steer You Straight.(Stardust)(Becoming Jane)(Movie review)(Brief article)
August 13, 2007... Byline: David Ansen Stardust Directed by Matthew Vaughn A young Victorian lad named Tristan (Charlie Cox) crosses over from his village into the fantasy kingdom of Stormhold, where witches brew, pirate ships fly, unicorns prance and a...

Not Another Teen Movie; 'Rocket Science' has a big brain--and a bigger heart.(Movie review)
August 13, 2007... Byline: David Ansen Hal Hefner (Reece Daniel Thompson) is a stutterer. His problem is so severe that he has to practice ordering pizza as he stands in line at his high-school cafeteria--and has to settle for sloppy Joes because he can't...

The Truth About Denial.(Correction notice)
August 13, 2007... ***** CORRECTION: Clarification: In "The Truth About Denial" (Aug. 13), we said that Congressman John Dingell "adamantly oppose[s] greenhouse curbs that might hurt the auto and other industries." While Dingell has long opposed greenhouse...

Yummy Vs. Slummy; And the winner is ... who cares? We've become narcissist mommies, obsessed with our parenting choices and defensive when confronted with others'.
August 13, 2007... Byline: Kathleen Deveny (With Julie Scelfo) The mommy wars are killing me. Raise your children however you'd like. Just please--please--stop telling me about it. Do whatever you want: stay at home with your kids, wear gym clothes all day...

How to Stop Being a Drip.(wise use of water)
August 13, 2007... Byline: Charlene Dy Water use soars in the summertime, and drought-affected regions have been tightening their faucets in an effort to conserve water. While some towns have gone so far as to restrict lawn watering and public fountains,...

The Checklist; Our top picks for the week ahead.(Buyers guide)
August 13, 2007... Rent "Disturbia," out Tuesday on DVD. In this modern take on Alfred Hitchcock's "Rear Window," a teenager under house arrest (Shia LaBeouf) suspects his next-door neighbor of kidnapping and murder. Buy Graffeeti shoes (from $31.99 at...

Horsepower.(horseback riding)(Buyers guide)
August 13, 2007... Byline: Paul Tolme Horseback trail rides offer city slickers the opportunity to experience the West the cowboy way. With a horse doing all the work, tourists can access remote areas that would take hours to reach on foot. Look for moose...

Sleeper Reads.(books)(Brief article)(Book review)
August 13, 2007... Byline: Malcolm Jones and Anna Kuchment You've perused "The Secret," devoured "The Diana Chronicles" and fallen under the spell of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows." Looking for your next beach read? Here are five worthy hardbacks...

Uncorked / Sauvignon Blanc.(Buyers guide)(Brief article)
August 13, 2007... Sauvignon Blanc makes a lively summer sipper, balancing live-wire acidity with fruit, mineral, herb and grass flavors. The white grape is grown around the world, taking on many different characters. Here are five high-scoring Sauvignon Blancs...

Newcomers By Numbers.(immigrants employed in the United States)
August 20, 2007... Byline: Anna Quindlen Some people talk about immigration in terms of politics, some in terms of history. But the crux of the matter is numbers. The Labor Department says that immigrants make up about 15 percent of the work force. It's...

Seeing Is Believing? Is this a real Jackson Pollock? A mysterious trove of pictures rocks the art world.
August 20, 2007... Byline: Cathleen McGuigan When Jackson Pollock smashed his green Oldsmobile convertible into a tree in East Hampton, on New York's Long Island, 51 years ago this month, his violent death at the age of 44 only enhanced his mythic status as...

When Fools Rush In, The Joke's on Them.(an analysis of investment industry)
August 20, 2007... Byline: Daniel Gross An idea for a morality play: capture the madness of an era when investors, entranced by new technology, a novel set of economic assumptions and an all-powerful Federal Reserve, lost their heads, blew an exuberant...

Ah, to Be Sweet Seventeen; The teen magazine stays loyal to the good girls. Sorry, Lindsay.(Lindsay Lohan)(Seventeen magazine)
August 20, 2007... Byline: Johnnie L. Roberts and Aisha Eady You're a 17-year-old-girl, within weeks of entering your senior year at Hometown High. "Hot Hair." Check. "Sexy Shoes." Check. And you're armed with the one "Flirting Move" that "Guys Can't...

Facebook Grows Up; At 19, Mark Zuckerberg came up with a new way for college kids to connect--and started an online revolution. Now 23, he's trying to build out his business without losing its cool.(Cover story)
August 20, 2007... Byline: Steven Levy (With Karen Breslau in Palo Alto, Jennifer Ordoñez and Tara Weingarten in Los Angeles, Temma Ehrenfeld, Charlene Dy, Brian Braiker and Nick Summers in New York and Sam Stein in Washington, D.C.) On Tuesday, July...

Why I Love It ... Facebook has become the dry-erase tabula rasa of my life--and of my 1, 042 closest friends (and counting).(Cover story)
August 20, 2007... Byline: Kurt Soller I have three fond memories from my senior year of high school: the day I got my college acceptance letter, the day I graduated and the day I joined Facebook. The latter happened on a May afternoon before graduation,...

... And Why I Hate It; The site nurses my worst self-indulgent instincts. Does anyone really care that I love penguins?(thoughts on Facebook)(Cover story)
August 20, 2007... Byline: Sarah Kliff I have no idea how many hours of my life I've wasted on Facebook. When I wake up each morning, with my laptop sitting on the edge of my futon, I check it. Before I've thought about brushing my teeth, I have already seen...