Newsweek articles from December 2005

Newsweek archives from December 2005

The Blue-Collar CEO; Tom LaSorda is the first child of labor leaders to run a car company. He'll need more than his street cred with unions, though, to keep Chrysler firing on all cylinders.(Interview)(Biography)
December 5, 2005... Byline: Keith Naughton For a carmaker, choreographing an elaborate new model show for its dealers can be as routine as an oil change. But at a rehearsal last month for a Chrysler extravaganza inside an enormous Las Vegas arena, the...

Exit Interview: A Showman's Parting Shot; Dieter Zetsche quickly mastered Motown when he took over Chrysler in 2000. Now he wants out of the Big Three.(Interview)
December 5, 2005... Byline: Keith Naughton When Dieter Zetsche arrived at Chrysler five years ago, Detroit viewed him with deep suspicion. With Chrysler sinking fast after its messy merger with Daimler-Benz, the mustached former Mercedes exec was cast as a...

Boeing's New Tailwind; The jetmaker is cruising again after many losses to Airbus.
December 5, 2005... Byline: Andrew Romano On Dec. 7, 2003, Boeing executives arrived in Dubai for the city's biennial air show--and they were hoping for some good news. After all, the company's profits and stock price were slumping, and with 13 years since...

A Slippery Snowy Slope for Marketing.(product placement)(Brief Article)
December 5, 2005... Byline: Ramin Setoodeh In "First Descent," a new snowboarding documentary that opens in limited release this week, mountains are everywhere. You'll have to look a little harder to spot the Mountain Dew. But not too hard. Mountain Dew,...

Mail Call; Questioning U.S. Interrogation Techniques.(Letter to the Editor)
December 5, 2005... Most readers responding to our Nov. 21 cover story condemned the use of torture in fighting terrorism. "I find it both appalling and astonishing that we are even having a debate about torture in this country," said one. "Only the uncivilized...

Free Speech Under Siege; In California, 'progressive' thinking has progressed to the idea that because money in politics is bad, political competition is, too.(Column)
December 5, 2005... Byline: George F. Will Attacks on freedom of political speech are becoming more brazen. Because the attackers aim to enlarge government's control of the political campaigns that decide who controls government, the attacks advance...

Rebel With A Cause; Sharon was in command of Likud. So why did he bolt to form a new party?(Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon)
December 5, 2005... Byline: Dan Ephron Ariel Sharon tends to make his big political decisions alone. It's a vestige from his days as a willful Army general, when he led troops from hill to hill and occasionally defied his superiors by charging enemy ground....

The New Way Out; U.S. leaders finally have a coherent approach--but patience is wearing thin.(Iraq War)
December 5, 2005... Byline: Michael Hirsh, Scott Johnson and Kevin Peraino (With John Barry in Washington) Only a few months ago, the road from Baghdad International Airport to the Green Zone was a symbol of American futility in Iraq. When talking heads in...

Panic Is Not The Solution; Many Democrats are understandably enraged over Iraq. But in responding in equally partisan fashion, they could well precipitate a tragedy.(Column)
December 5, 2005... Byline: Fareed Zakaria (Write the author at comments@fareedzakaria.com.) The rising clamor in Washington to get out of Iraq may be right or may be wrong, but one thing is certain: its timing has little to do with events in that country....

Death in the Bush; Zimbabwe's animals are dying, which means its people are suffering, too.
December 5, 2005... Byline: Joshua Hammer The stench of decay rises from the bush just outside of Main Camp, the dilapidated, near-deserted head-quarters at Zimbabwe's Hwange National Park. Only a few months ago, the acacia groves, savanna grass and mopane...

Eggs, Lies, Stem Cells; A leading scientist quits, but remains a hero to many.(Hwang Woo-Suk)
December 5, 2005... Byline: Mary Carmichael (With B. J. Lee in Seoul and Ben Whitford in New York) Hwang Woo-Suk may be a scientist, but in South Korea, he's virtually a rock-and-roll star. The first researcher to extract stem cells from a cloned human...

Even China Can't Hide a Toxic River.
December 5, 2005... Byline: Sarah Schafer and Jonathan Ansfield Long before the disaster hit, Hu Fengbin was ready to sue. The Beijing lawyer had often suspected that a petrochemical plant, located upriver from his childhood home in Harbin, was one of the...

The Editor's Desk.(eating disorders)(Editorial)
December 5, 2005... Byline: Mark Whitaker At the Alexian Brothers Behavioral Health Hospital, one recovering anorexic told Karen Springen how she had restricted her daily diet to a couple of sticks of sugarless gum. "It brought back memories," Karen said....

To the Top of Half Dome and Beyond; Tired of sparring with my teenager, I decided to show him there's something bigger than all of us.(Column)
December 5, 2005... Byline: Wendy Watson (Watson lives in Davis, Calif.) My son is 15 now. I'm a slipknot from 57; his father, Mort, still older. The past year was difficult for all of us. While Eric's demands for independence were over the top, his sense of...

The Vet Strategy; The public is unhappy. The GOP is on the run. The Dems have a secret weapon: Iraq war vets, deployed on a new field of battle.(Correction Notice)
December 5, 2005... ***** CORRECTION: In the 'The Vet Strategy,' Patrick Murphy was referred to as a lieutenant commander with the 82nd Airborne. In fact, he was a captain with the 82nd Airborne. Newsweek regrets the error. ***** Byline: Richard...

A New Spice in the Gumbo; Will Latino day laborers locating in New Orleans change its complexion?(Louisiana)
December 5, 2005... Byline: Arian Campo-Flores (With T. Trent Gegax) Only one day after Hurricane Katrina tore through the Gulf Coast, Tranquilino Jimenez already had a job offer. An undocumented immigrant from Mexico, he set off from his home in Mobile, Ala.,...

Newsmakers.(Barbara Streisand)(Interview)
December 5, 2005... Byline: Nicki Gostin Q&A: BARBRA STREISAND Her old TV shows are now available in a five-DVD box, "Barbra Streisand: The Television Specials." She--and her publicist--spoke with NEWSWEEK's Nicki Gostin. Can you hear me? I hear you...

Perspectives.(quotations drawn from current events)
December 5, 2005... Byline: Quotation sources: New York Times (2), Chicago Tribune, Reuters, Los Angeles Times, Albuquerque Journal, AP, New York Times, Atlanta Journal-Constitution "From day one I've been saying, 'Indict my client'." Donna Newman, a...

HIRE A DISASTER EDITION.(humorous anecdotes drawn from current events)
December 5, 2005... Remember FEMA Brownie? He's starting a consulting firm to advise on disaster preparedness. Only in America. P.S.: Nice shirt. Bush - Three months after Katrina, and still no one in charge of cleanup and housing. An...

Bob Ney: Will Ethics Scandals Hurt GOP Bids in 2006?(Correction Notice)
December 5, 2005... ***** CORRECTION: In "Will Ethics Scandals Hurt GOP Bids in 2006?" (Periscope, Dec. 5), we reported that Republican activist Grover Norquist had suggested that if Rep. Bob Ney faced a serious legal problem, he "should step aside for the...

History: Dr. Mudd Revisited.(Dr. Samuel Mudd and the plot to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln)(Brief Article)
December 5, 2005... Byline: Nick Summers When Dr. Samuel Mudd set the broken leg of John Wilkes Booth on April 15, 1865, was he in on the conspiracy to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln, or just a country doc treating a mysterious visitor in the night?...

Alex Kerry: Capturing the Campaign.(Brief Article)
December 5, 2005... Byline: Susannah Meadows John Kerry may be looking ahead to the next election, but his daughter is still working on '04. Alex Kerry, who campaigned for her father in 33 states, has sold a memoir of the experience to Rodale Books, NEWSWEEK...

Transition.(Brief Article)(Obituary)
December 5, 2005... Byline: David Gates PAT MORITA, 73 Morita spent his early years hospitalized with spinal tuberculosis--then went to a wartime Japanese-American internment camp. "One day I was an invalid," he recalled. "The next, I was public enemy No....

IVF: The Silent Treatment.(in vitro fertilization)(Brief Article)
December 5, 2005... Byline: Jessica Silver-Greenberg While the number of infertile people in America has skyrocketed in recent years, growth of in vitro fertilization actually has slowed. In 2002, the last year for which figures are available, the Centers for...

Trees: What to Wear to Decorate It?(Oregon's "Noble Vintage" Christmas tree)(Brief Article)
December 5, 2005... Byline: Elise Soukup You have discriminating tastes. You tote a Louis Vuitton purse (with a Prada wallet inside) and you dress top to bottom in Versace. Clearly, you're not the kind to put just any old Christmas tree in your living room....

Gas: Beat the Bill, Opt To Chill.(Brief Article)
December 5, 2005... Byline: Karen Springen It'll be a cold winter at Northwestern University: school officials recently announced that they're setting school thermostats at 55 degrees during off hours. (Dorms will be 68 degrees 24/7.) "It may be a little...

Wildlife: Murder Rate.(Brief Article)
December 5, 2005... Byline: Paul Tolme Federal wildlife officers stumbled onto a murder mystery on Nov. 5 when they found the corpses of a Mexican gray wolf and bald eagle near each other in New Mexico's Gila National Forest. There's a spate of deliberate...

Grads: Helping Get That First Job.(Brief Article)
December 5, 2005... Byline: Daniel McGinn As marketing executives, D. A. Hayden and Michael Wilder routinely interviewed new college graduates--and they often came away appalled. "I wanted to tell them, 'If you'd only done this [differently], I would have...

Books: Seen, and Not Read.(Brief Article)
December 5, 2005... Byline: Nick Summers There are the books we read, the books we mean to read, and then there are the ones--c'mon, admit it--that mainly just look impressive on the shelf. Take "A Brief History of Time": the classic has sold more than 10...

College Papers Grow Up; They have the ads, the readers--and budgets to match.
December 5, 2005... Byline: Nick Summers David Burrick edits a daily newspaper in Philadelphia. When big news breaks he deploys a staff of 200 reporters and photographers, flying them across the country if necessary, keeping an eye toward his $1 million...

Mamma Mia! 'Infertility,' the Musical.(Brief Article)
December 5, 2005... Byline: Claudia Kalb Chris Neuner was doing his manly duty in the collection room at New York University's infertility clinic when the light bulb went on. The high-tech babymaking that he and his wife, Amy, were enduring--the sperm...

Fighting Anorexia: No One To Blame; The age of their youngest patients has slipped to 9 years old, and doctors have begun to research the roots of this disease. Anorexia is probably hard-wired, the new thinking goes, and the best treatment is a family affair.(Cover Story)
December 5, 2005... Byline: Peg Tyre (With Karen Springen, Ellise Pierce, Joan Raymond and Dirk Johnson) Emily Krudys can pinpoint the moment her life fell apart. It was a fall afternoon in the Virginia suburbs, and she was watching her daughter Katherine...

'We Want to Make Our Babies Better'; A father describes his daughter's journey from sickness to health--and how his family had to change.(Cover Story)
December 5, 2005... Byline: James S. Berrien (Berrien, president and publisher of Forbes Magazine Group, is now on the board of the National Eating Disorders Association.) Thirteen fathers stood in a circle holding hands. Each one of us had a different story...

For Gamers, X Marks the Spot.(Microsoft Xbox 360)(Product/Service Evaluation)
December 5, 2005... Byline: Steven Levy I had barely reclaimed my breath from an exhilarating Thanksgiving Day 100mph-plus race through the streets of lower New York City when the notice came. "Westerby" wanted to chat--and race me head-to-head. I hadn't even...

Blog Watch.(Brief Article)
December 5, 2005... A mainstream media look at web logs. Videogames aren't all sweetness and light. Joystiq.com looks at the dark side: brand-new consoles being stolen at gunpoint; infant twins drowning as their father plays on his PC. Crooked Washington...

Ask the Technologist.(upgrading a Wi-Fi router)(Brief Article)
December 5, 2005... Byline: Steven Levy (SUBMIT QUESTIONS AT ASKLEVY.NEWSWEEK.COM) I live in a split-level condominium, and I'm looking to upgrade my Wi-Fi router to the latest and greatest. What should I look for? --Tracy Yen, Oakland, Calif. Get a...

Analyze These! A new book profiles two forgotten math geniuses.(The Equation That Couldn't Be Solved by Mario Livio)(Book Review)
December 5, 2005... Byline: Mary Carmichael Considering how few people use higher math in their lives, or even remember much of it from high school, the popularity of books on chaos theory and number theory and higher-dimensional geometry is, well, a paradox....

Technology: Time To Get Plugged In.(video games aimed at children, teens, adults)
December 5, 2005... Byline: Ramin Setoodeh Hard-core gamers lined up around the block last week for the new $400 Xbox. But the toy industry is targeting the rest of us--children, tweens and adults--through a more primitive technology: plug and play. These...

The Checklist.(books, food, sound recordings and more)(Brief Article)
December 5, 2005... BUY: The 2005 Hess Truck. This year, it's an emergency truck with rescue vehicle. Kids will love the dual searchlights and sirens ($20; hesstoytruck.com for info). EAT: white truffles. It's peak season, and this year's crop is the most...

Road Test: F430 Spider; Naughty By Nature.(Brief Article)
December 5, 2005... Byline: Tara Weingarten It's 85 degrees outside--autumn in L.A., after all--and I should be melting. But I've got goose bumps behind the wheel of the new Ferrari F430 Spider. I press the START button and all hell breaks loose. (Plus , the...

Ask Tip Sheet.(turkey meat)(Brief Article)
December 5, 2005... Byline: Nicole Joseph What causes the color difference between a turkey's (or chicken's) white and dark meat? --Merlin Dorfman, San Jose, Calif. The browner color of "dark" meat comes from a deeply tinted, oxygen-storing protein called...

Uncorked: California Whites.(Brief Article)
December 5, 2005... Chardonnay still rules the roost, but California vintners are beginning to spread their wings. You can now find a wide range of tasty homegrown whites that offer distinctive flavors at affordable prices. (Who doesn't like that?) Here are a few...

Gadgets: Pocket Satellite.(satellite radio receivers from Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. and XM Satellite Radio Inc.)(Brief Article)
December 5, 2005... Byline: Brad Stone Sirius and XM, the nation's two satellite radio networks, are pitching portability for the holidays. XM offers three mobile models, including Pioneer's AirWare ($199 with home and car kit, plus $13 a month to subscribe;...

Travel: It Pays To Ski Early.(Brief Article)
December 5, 2005... Byline: Paul Tolme Wondering whether you can afford a ski vacation this year? Now is the time to start shopping. Many Colorado resorts have already been open for several weeks, but the slopes will remain relatively empty until Christmas....

Money: One-Click Investing.(Brief Article)
December 5, 2005... Byline: Linda Stern The big online brokers have been busy cutting commissions, beefing up customer service and buying each other. What does all that competition and consolidation mean to investors? Better service at better prices. "The...

Style: Get Mizrahi, Avoid Diller.(work of top fashion designers at discount prices)(Brief Article)
December 5, 2005... Byline: Susanna Schrobsdorff Attention bargain shoppers: you need no longer settle for pleated polyester pants. Big discounters like JCPenney and Wal-Mart have followed Target's lead, recruiting top fashion names or whipping up their own...

Shopping: A Greener Holiday.(Brief Article)
December 5, 2005... Byline: Nicole Joseph Looking for gifts for your environmentalist friends? Try an organic cotton denim jacket with lotus-flower embroidery ($84; underthecanopy.com ). Or buy colorful South African bracelets made from recycled telephone...

Health: Beating The Blues.(over the Christmas holiday season)(Brief Article)
December 5, 2005... Byline: Karen Springen Can't seem to get into the holiday spirit? Here are some tips for avoiding seasonal depression. Ignore Norman Rockwell. "Don't measure yourself or your holiday celebration against some impossible ideal," says...

Enough of the Waiting Game; It does not follow, however, that if the Republicans have lost the confidence of the country, the Democrats have won it.(political leadership)(Column)
December 12, 2005... Byline: Anna Quindlen The Iowa caucuses are currently scheduled for Jan. 21 a little more than two years from now, and the New Hampshire primary rolls around soon after. Who cares? The date of the next presidential election is...

A 'Good to Great' Second Act; Jim Collins's best seller is that rare business book that finds an audience beyond corporations. Now he's got a sequel for organizations not ruled by the bottom line.
December 12, 2005... Byline: Daniel McGinn (With Jessica Silver-Greenberg) In certain professions, there's a standard set of ambitions. Every TV star wants to be in movies. Every teeny-bopper starlet wants to record an album. And among business-book authors,...

BlackBerry Smackdown; Wrangling over patents is worrying users and investors.
December 12, 2005... Byline: Brad Stone Erik Lindquist and his BlackBerry are practically inseparable. Nevertheless, when the group director for software maker Siebel Systems heard the news last week that a Virginia district-court judge might black out the...

Want Some Buffett? Not This Way, Fans.(buying shares in Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc.)
December 12, 2005... Byline: Allan Sloan Low-priced merchandise isn't necessarily cheap. Consider, if you will, the "Strategic Asset Securities" that Wachovia Securities is touting as a low-priced way to buy a piece of legendary investor Warren Buffett. The...

Saving Face Edition.
December 12, 2005... The CW has a secret Plan for Victory: Plant up arrows in Iraqi edition and bill U.S. government for millions. Bush = Finally says something besides everything's going great, buys six months before election panics GOPs....

The Mystery of the Origin of the Species.(Letter to the Editor)
December 12, 2005... Reader response to our Nov. 28 cover story on Charles Darwin proved that more than a century after his death, the father of evolution still provokes controversy. A supporter of intelligent design said, "Evolution is a man-made attempt to...

Cutting Edge; Medical progress is measured in many ways. As robotic surgery comes of age, Katrina's victims struggle to find the most basic care. A look ahead.(using robotic surgery to treat prostate cancer)
December 12, 2005... Byline: Jennifer Barrett Stuart Forbes celebrated his 60th birthday on April 11. A week later, he was diagnosed with prostate cancer. "It was quite a month," says Forbes, a blunt Vietnam veteran who runs a consulting firm outside Boston....

Genomic Medicine: The Science Speeds Up.
December 12, 2005... Byline: Anthony L. Komaroff, M.D., and Joshua Labaer, M.D., PH.D. Two years ago, when the Human Genome Project completed the first directory of all human genes, the stage was set for two great advances in medicine. First, scientists would...

Immunity's Master Controller; Researchers are working to understand--and manipulate--the body's innate defenses.
December 12, 2005... Byline: Mary Carmichael Like many pharmaceutical researchers, Dr. Arthur Krieg is working on a cure for cancer. He also hopes to eradicate AIDS, lupus, hepatitis C, even allergies. And he hopes to do all this with a single kind of drug....

Addiction: How to Break the Chain.
December 12, 2005... Byline: Michael Craig Miller, M.D. (Miller is editor in chief of the Harvard Mental Health Letter. For more information, visit health.harvard.edu/newsweek) Remember "Just say no"? It was a slick motto, but a terrible remedy for drug and...

The Ultimate Transplant; Surgeons are ready to offer burn victims entire faces from donors, but there are risks.
December 12, 2005... Byline: Karen Springen For thousands of people whose faces have been disfigured by third-degree burns or other injury, life often becomes an endless series of painful operations. Surgery is performed to transfer skin to the face from the...

The Man Who Lost His Face; How a severely burned World War II pilot with a will to live helped launch the age of organ transplants.
December 12, 2005... Byline: Joseph E. Murray, M.D., with Anthony L. Komaroff, M.D. (Murray won the Nobel Prize in 1990 for organ transplantation and wrote the book "Surgery of the Soul." Komaroff is professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.) As doctors...

Beyond the Horizon; Is immortality achievable? Our Harvard doc responds.
December 12, 2005... Byline: Anthony L. Komaroff FARGO, N.D.: The quest for immortality has been a past and a current obsession. How will medical advances contribute to longer life spans? Is there a limit to how long we can live? DR. ANTHONY L. KOMAROFF:...

The Cost of the Katrina Effect; The wind and rain have died down. But the hurricane left behind a toxic health-care crisis.
December 12, 2005... Byline: Claudia Kalb and Andrew Murr (With Joan Raymond) Hurricane Katrina blew the roof off Ron Smith's New Orleans house. He hitchhiked out of town, spent a night in a darkened HoJo's lobby and, later, waded through fetid waters back...

Bracing for a Plague; The physician charged with preparing the world for a flu pandemic reflects on the threat.(Dr. David Nabarro)(Interview)
December 12, 2005... Byline: Geoffrey Cowley Dr. David Nabarro was going about his business on Sept. 12 when the head of the World Health Organization hit him with a three-Rolaid question. Would he mind moving from Geneva to New York--right away--to oversee...

Keys to Safer Hospitals; A set of simple precautions could prevent 100,000 needless deaths every year.
December 12, 2005... Byline: Donald M. Berwick, M.D. (Berwick is president and CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (ihi.org) and clinical professor of pediatrics and health-care policy at Harvard Medical School) Sometime soon, I will need a new...

Diagnosis: Not Enough Nurses; The national shortage is already acute--and your safety is at risk. How to fix the problem.
December 12, 2005... Byline: Anne Underwood When Liz Tattersall first considered nursing, it sounded like a great career. It was rewarding, remunerative and in high demand. But after six years as a triage nurse at a community clinic in New London, Conn.--with...

A Teen Health Gap; Adolescents have unique medical issues, and a growing specialty is aimed at addressing them.
December 12, 2005... Byline: Barbara Kantrowitz and Karen Springen Think about your pediatrician's office. Chances are that "Winnie-the-Pooh" or "Sesame Street" murals decorate the walls and restless toddlers pass the time before their appointments by playing...

Women of Al Qaeda; Jihad used to have a gender: male. The men who dominated the movement exploited traditional attitudes about sex and the sexes to build their ranks. They still do that, but with a difference: even Al Qaeda is using female killers now, and goading the men.(Cover Story)
December 12, 2005... Byline: Christopher Dickey (With Ron Moreau and Sami Yousafzai in Kabul, Scott Johnson and Kevin Peraino in Baghdad, Joanna Chen in Jerusalem, Mark Hosenball and John Barry in Washington, Anna Nemtsova in Moscow, Stefan Theil in Berlin, Eric...

Reform: Not Ignorant, Not Helpless; The West is focused on the extreme cases of oppression against Muslim women. But there's another world out there.(Cover Story)(Column)
December 12, 2005... Byline: Lorraine Ali If I'd never known a Muslim woman, I'd probably pity any female born into Islam. In America we've come to see these women as timid creatures, covered from head to toe, who scurry rather than walk. They have no voices,...

The U. S. Can Out-Charm China; China has used soft power in the sense that it has exercised its power softly. It does this to show that it is not a bully, unlike guess who.(Column)
December 12, 2005... Byline: Fareed Zakaria (Write the author at comments@fareedzakaria.com.) Every insider knows that the key to power in Washington is being at the meeting. It's an ancient political rule: if you're not at the meeting, no one will protect...

The Editor's Desk.(Editorial)
December 12, 2005... Byline: Mark Whitaker For some time now, our foreign and intelligence correspondents have been ahead of the media pack in covering the emergence of women as a new force in the world of terror. They have reported major stories on female...

At 5 Feet 10 Inches, I Was Too Tall for Tokyo; I took up too much space in a city designed to fit as much as possible into every conceivable inch.
December 12, 2005... Byline: Cathie Gandel (Gandel lives in Bridgehampton, N.Y.) I tiptoed into the small inner sanctum of the women's ofuro (communal bath) at the small ryokan (inn) in the Japan Alps. Following custom, I had left my clothes in the outer...

Top Gun's Tailspin; Randy Cunningham was a high-flying aviator whose taste for the lavish perks of politics brought him low.
December 12, 2005... ***** CORRECTION: CORRECTION: In "Top Gun's Tailspin" (Dec. 12, 2005), we said that Congressman Randy Cunningham was convicted for accepting gifts including a "19th-century Louis Philippe commode, or chamber pot." In this case, the...

A New View At Defense; Rumsfeld's No. 2 heralds a more pragmatic approach.
December 12, 2005... Byline: Daniel Klaidman, John Barry and Michael Hirsh Shortly after the start of President George W. Bush's second term, a high-level "deputies" meeting was called at the White House. Issue one on the agenda was how to improve the...

Hillary's Military Offensive; Clinton's hawkish stance is a two-edged political sword.(military policy of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton)
December 12, 2005... Byline: Susannah Meadows (With Howard Fineman and John Barry) This summer, the reserve Officers Association presented Sen. Hillary Clinton with its President's Award for her work on behalf of soldiers. On the morning of the ceremony, the...

The Real Price Of Propaganda; Exporting a bunch of budding Jayson Blairs simply feeds the unhelpful image of Americans as inept and hypocritical puppetmasters.
December 12, 2005... ***** CORRECTION: Correction: In "The Real Price of Propaganda" (Dec. 12, 2005), Jonathan Alter cites reporting by author James Bamford in Rolling Stone that suggested the Rendon Group set up interviews for Judith Miller with sources who...

Betting on the Studs; Madam Heidi Fleiss is back--and building an all-male bordello in the desert. Is even Nevada ready for this?
December 12, 2005... Byline: Steve Friess Standing on a desolate stretch of property dotted with sagebrush and litter 80 miles northwest of Las Vegas, former Hollywood Madam Heidi Fleiss surveys the sexual frontier. She's sketching out her vision for Heidi's...

Newsmakers.(Billy Joel, Oprah Winfrey, Brad Pitt)(Interview)
December 12, 2005... Byline: Nicki Gostin Billy Joel Billy Joel's new four-CD set, "My Lives," includes such rarities as tracks with his early bands, covers of Beatles and Dylan songs, and a concert DVD. He spoke with NEWSWEEK's Nicki Gostin. So this...

Periscope.(quotations drawn from current events)
December 12, 2005... Byline: Quotation sources from top to bottom, left to right: AP, New York Times, The Washington Post, New York Times (2), Reuters, Wall Street Journal, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, USA Today "He did the worst thing an elected official can do."...

9/11 Commission: D's and F's on Counterterror-Reform Report Card.
December 12, 2005... Byline: Michael Isikoff The members of the federal panel that investigated the 9/11 attacks are expecting to make a splash this week with a tough report criticizing the Bush administration and Congress for failing to implement key...

Death Penalty: Convicts' Unlikely Allies.(Brief Article)
December 12, 2005... Byline: Sarah Childress In the end, Kenneth Boyd, the 1,000th convict to be executed in the United States since capital punishment was reinstated in 1976, had some unusual advocates: two jurors who sentenced him to death in North Carolina...

Air Safety: Cockpit Smoke Concerns.(Brief Article)
December 12, 2005... Byline: Michael Hirsh The government spends a lot of time and money protecting America's air passengers from terrorist attacks and water landings. But the Federal Aviation Administration has been less attentive to a flying danger that...

Israel: Peres--Exit Stage Left.(former prime minister Shimon Peres resigns from Labor Party)(Brief Article)
December 12, 2005... Byline: Dan Ephron and Joanna Chen Shimon Peres's resignation last week from Israel's Labor Party might have looked like a step toward retirement. Peres is 82; he's served twice as Israel's prime minister and held every other major cabinet...

Recycling: Tech Trash, E-Waste: By Any Name, It's an Issue.
December 12, 2005... Byline: Brad Stone This holiday season, American consumers will buy millions of videogame consoles, MP3 players, digital cameras and computers. The booming business is great for retailers, the high-tech industry and the U.S. economy--and...

Technology: Shedding Light on a Literacy Problem.(Correction Notice)
December 12, 2005... ***** CORRECTION: Correction: In "Technology: Shedding Light on a Literacy Problem" (Periscope, Dec. 12, 2005), we incorrectly reported that the Kinkajou project, now in 200 classrooms in Mali, would be expanded this year to 1,500 classes...