Newsweek articles from February 2003

Newsweek archives from February 2003

Do-It-Yourself Isn't Dead Yet: Day trading was all the rage during the bull run. But even with stocks falling, many are still at it, and adding new recruits. Just don't call them 'day traders' now.
February 3, 2003... Correction: 2/12/03 Our Feb. 3 article "Do-It-Yourself Isn't Dead Yet" misidentified a Connecticut accountant. His name is Robert A. Green. ------------------------------------------- Byline: Daniel McGinn There are no lava lamps in...

A Reverse Midas Touch: Paul Allen won with Microsoft, but his current bets are losers.
February 3, 2003... Byline: Brad Stone Paul Allen throws great parties. At least once a year, the cofounder of Microsoft and fourth wealthiest citizen on the planet--with a fortune that Forbes estimates at $21 billion--invites friends, family and luminaries...

Conventional Wisdom: Special State of the War Edition.(Brief Article)
February 3, 2003... Americans are escaping from a grim reality - impending war, a moribund economy and terror threats - by gorging on "reality shows." Go figure. C.W. Bush = Even a strong State of the Union can't change the facts on the...

Mail Call: The Science of Eating Right for a Healthy Life.(Letter to the Editor)
February 3, 2003... Readers prescribed their own strategies for good health in response to "The Perfect Diet," our Jan. 20 cover package. "Thank you for presenting a sensible approach to America's obesity epidemic," a nutrition therapist wrote. "If we equated a...

Howard Dean: Not Nuancing.
February 3, 2003... Byline: George F. Will Howard Dean breakfasted last week in the 2800 block of Washington's Pennsylvania Avenue, 12 blocks northwest of where he intends to take up residence in 24 months. He ate responsibly, as befits a physician--no bacon,...

War and Consequences: The evidence against Iraq is scanty, the global opposition to an attack growing more vocal. But the Bush team's biggest dove has now grown talons. Will war make us more--or less--secure?
February 3, 2003... Correction: 2/12/03 In the graphic "Bound For Battle" (Feb. 3), we incorrectly stated the location of Hurlburt Field. It is in Florida, not Georgia. --------------------------------------------------- Byline: Richard Wolffe and Michael...

Looking on the Bright Side: Fear has long paralyzed Western policy toward the Middle East. And what has come of this? Repression, radical Islam and terror.
February 3, 2003... Byline: Fareed Zakaria Yesterday, a discussion on the meaning of love turned--as did every discussion at Davos this year--to one subject, America and Iraq. Most European and Middle Eastern participants at the conference think a war with...

Perils of Victory: No one doubts that America will win a war with Iraq. But many wonder if it will win the peace.
February 3, 2003... Byline: Christopher Dickey He was absorbed already in the dilemmas of Democracy and the responsibilities of the West; he was determined--I learnt that very soon--to do good, not to any individual person but to a country, a continent, a...

The Editor's Desk.(Editorial)
February 3, 2003... Byline: Mark Whitaker This was a very sad week for us at NEWSWEEK. Our friend and colleague, Sarah Pettit, passed away at 36 after a yearlong struggle with lymphoma. On page 62, David Gates remembers Sarah more eloquently than I possibly...

Good As Gold: The Oscar race is heating up, so NEWSWEEK gathered the most exciting supporting actors and actresses of the year for an ad hoc, um, support group. A revealing talk about movies.(Interview)
February 3, 2003... Byline: Jeff Giles and David J. Jefferson Every year, as Oscar season comes to a boil, NEWSWEEK invites leading contenders in some category or other to sit around a table and see if they hate each other. They never do. (OK, to be honest,...

Kim Jong Il: The Truth Behind the Caricature: By casting him as the villain, we're throwing away our chance to find out what he really represents.
February 3, 2003... Byline: Don Gregg As one with long experience in the Vietnam War--first in Washington, D.C., as we slid into the abyss and later as a CIA officer in the provinces surrounding Saigon--I am deeply concerned by the American establishment's...

Fear at the Front: All soldiers are brave in the face of battle--until the battle breaks out. The war of nerves, and how the troops preparing for conflict with Iraq are coping with it.
February 3, 2003... Byline: Evan Thomas I want to go to combat," says Sgt. Mathew Figley of the Second Brigade, Third Infantry Division, as he slouches in the back of his Bradley Fighting Vehicle in the desert wastes of northern Kuwait, a few miles from the...

Giving Protest a Chance: A new kind of conflict begets a new kind of dissent. Can a pre-emptive peace strike work? Only if Washington listens.
February 3, 2003... Byline: Arian Campo-Flores The 30-second TV spot opens with actress Susan Sarandon staring into the camera. "Before our kids start coming home from Iraq in body bags and women and children start dying in Iraq," she lectures solemnly, "I...

'Being Shot At Is No Fun': Bombs, screaming men and the terror of uncertainty. A Vietnam vet remembers.
February 3, 2003... Byline: Wayne Downing Right up front I want to assert that I am no hero, but I know some true American heroes who not only survived on the battlefield but led their men to extraordinary achievements against overwhelming odds. I was...

'Trust Me' Isn't Good Enough: Bush sometimes sounds like President Peeve, as if it's someone else's fault he can't find--or at least talk about--harder evidence.
February 3, 2003... Byline: Jonathan Alter Imagine you're a soldier headed into harm's way in Iraq. If the system is working right, you've been issued a reliable chemical-biological protective garment, plus a backup. But if you're fighting in a contaminated...

Fallout: Gauging the Human Toll: From casualties to a possible refugee crisis, new reports suggest a war's health consequences could be devastating.
February 3, 2003... Byline: Geoffrey Cowley Saddam Hussein is clearly a health hazard to his country and the world, but war poses risks of its own. How grave are they? As the Bush team plans for a military assault, outside experts are struggling to assess the...

'The Perfect Crime': GHB is colorless, odorless, leaves the body within hours--and is fueling a growing number of rapes.(date rape drug)
February 3, 2003... Correction; 2/12/03 We said that the trial for Andrew Luster took place in San Diego ("'The Perfect Crime'," Feb. 3). In fact, it was in Ventura, Calif. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Byline: Suzanne...

Newsmakers.(Interview)
February 3, 2003... Byline: Devin Gordon; Malcolm Jones Once Upon a Time in Park City One of the best films at this year's Sundance Festival is about a dwarf who digs trains, and stars Peter Dinklage, whom you've never heard of. One of the worst stars...

Perspectives.(quotes on politics and popular culture)
February 3, 2003... Byline: Quotation sources from top to bottom, left to right: New York Times, Fox News, New York Times, The Washington Post, Reuters, CNN, Associated Press, Yahoo News, Etonline.Com, Associated Press "Time is running out." Deputy Defense...

Investigators: The FBI Says, Count the Mosques.
February 3, 2003... Byline: Michael Isikoff Frustrated that his troops are still not aggressive enough in hunting down terrorists, FBI Director Robert Mueller has launched a potentially controversial initiative aimed at making sure that field agents finally...

Terrorists: Man on The Run.(Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi)(Brief Article)
February 3, 2003... Byline: Mark Hosenball One of the most wanted terrorists today is a 36-year-old Palestinian Qaeda leader known as Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi, who has been linked to recent Qaeda activity and possibly even Iraq. Wanted by Jordan since 1999, when...

Olympics: Let the Games End.(Brief Article)
February 3, 2003... Byline: Mark Starr From Atlanta's greedfest to the Salt Lake City bribery scandal, the drama in planning the Olympics has rivaled that of the actual competitions. So it didn't help New York City's chances for 2012 last week when U.S....

FIAT: After Agnelli, a Sale?(Italian auto executive Gianni Agnelli)(Brief Article)
February 3, 2003... Byline: Keith Naughton Fiat patriarch Gianni Agnelli, 81, died last week just hours before a family meeting to decide the fate of his beloved but broken-down car company. Now it looks as though General Motors may reluctantly ride to the...

School: Degree of Danger.(Brief Article)
February 3, 2003... Byline: Nadine Joseph Welcome to San Luis Rey, a coastal city with multiple terrorist targets, where a smallpox threat may lead to forced quarantine. This is not a new videogame. It was created as an educational tool at the Naval...

Civil Rights: Time to Get Back On the Bus.(bus ridden by Rosa Parks is restored )
February 3, 2003... Byline: Elise Christenson It's every "Antiques Roadshow" enthusiast's dream. That old surplus bus Montgomery, Ala., resident Roy H. Sommerfield bought in 1970 and has been storing in the backyard for the last 30 years turns out to be the...

Youth: Being Courted.(SquashBusters and other organizations teach game to school children )(Brief Article)
February 3, 2003... Byline: Dan Blumenthal Squash isn't exactly a sport that's going to earn you a lot of street cred if you're good at it. ("Boy's got crazy squash skills, yo!") But, in the inner cities, youth-enrichment programs are helping underprivileged...

Transition: The Line Kings Exit the Stage.(caricaturists Al Hirschfeld and Bill Cauldin)(Obituary)(Biography)
February 3, 2003... Byline: Peter Plagens Al Hirschfeld, 99, was to the art of caricature what... Al Hirschfeld was to the art of caricature. The man who showed up at Broadway openings in a long black coat, black hat and Moses-like white beard to sit in the...

Movies: Location, Location.(Brief Article)
February 3, 2003... Byline: Elise Christenson Hollywood's as trendy about film locations as it is about velour track suits. And the latest hot spot turning heads? New Zealand. Tom Cruise and Gwyneth Paltrow are filming their respective films there, and it's...

Get Ready for The Blizzard: Here come dividend funds touting income and safety, now that Bush's tax-cut plan is giving Wall Street something new to sell.
February 3, 2003... Byline: Jane Bryant Quinn This is not your grandfather's stock market. You'll be seeing more ads for old-fashioned income investing, now that the president plans to make dividends fully or partly tax-exempt. But younger, growth-stock...

Getting Physical: A new fitness philosophy puts gym teachers on the front lines in the battle against childhood obesity.
February 3, 2003... Byline: Peg Tyre Twice a week, Kale Granda, an eighth grader at Titusville Middle School in rural Pennsylvania, changes into his gym clothes, straps on a heart-rate monitor and mounts a GameRider, a stationary bike attached to a...

Farewell to 'Aunt Flo': A new version of the birth-control pill would limit menstruation to four times a year. Are women ready?
February 3, 2003... Byline: Claudia Kalb Ask a bunch of women if they enjoy getting monthly periods and a significant majority (at least according to our own water-cooler survey) will answer "No!" Still, a woman's cycle has long been seen as a healthy and...

Caesar Slept Here: A 3-D re-creation at UCLA lets you roam ancient Rome.
February 3, 2003... Byline: Andrew Murr It's a sunny morning, perfect for a leisurely stroll. The date: A.D. 400. You walk up the steps of the Temple of Vesta, where inside, six virgins tend an eternal flame (and risk being buried alive if they, well, you...

Man, Machine And the Myth: The chess legend, who lost to IBM's Deep Blue computer five years ago, says he's better prepared for his next match against a machine.(Ga;ry Kasparov)
February 3, 2003... Byline: Steven Levy The world's greatest chess player (human variety) is famously aggressive, but also knows how to spin. At a press conference before taking on the current computer champion this week, Garry Kasparov described his loss to...

Health: Herbal Stress Buster?(Rhodiola rosea)
February 3, 2003... Byline: Anne Underwood As a Soviet soldier in Afghanistan in 1979, Zakir Ramazanov discovered a tonic that helped him reduce stress, while boosting mental and physical energy. It wasn't alcohol, but tea--made from the golden-yellow roots...

Fitness: Skip The Lift Lines.(cross-country skiing)(Brief Article)
February 3, 2003... Byline: Wayne Guglielmo Dr. Hugh Hermann, 73, looks and moves like a man 20 years his junior. Good genes help, but the Brooklyn, N.Y., native has a secret: since moving to Woodstock, Vt., to practice medicine 45 years ago, he's been an...

The Mogul Mobile.(Mercedes E500)(Brief Article)
February 3, 2003... Byline: Tara Weingarten You can tell a lot about a person by the car he drives. Or at least about the person he'd like to be. Mercedes's newly redesigned E500 says power and money. In a discreet whisper, of course. Ultrasleek, with...

Ask Tip Sheet.(travel costs to Germany)(Brief Article)
February 3, 2003... Byline: Sally Atkinson You can fly round trip to London for $200 to $300, so why is it $1,000 to Germany? -Dan R. Foose, Schuylkill Haven, PA. Keep in mind that flights from the United States to Germany are an hour and a half longer...

Travel: Please, Get A Room!(hotel services for Valentine's Day )(Brief Article)
February 3, 2003... Byline: T.W. Is your special someone still bitter about last year's Valentine's Day gift? (The Hershey's Kiss was symbolic?) Make amends with a weekend stay at a Cupid approved hotel. La Posada de Santa Fe (shown) offers cozy adobe casitas...

Family: Facing Bullies.(Brief Article)
February 3, 2003... Byline: Julie Scelfo The threat many American teenagers fear most is not Saddam Hussein, but a schoolyard bully. According to the National Crime Prevention Council, six out of 10 American teenagers witness bullying in school at least once...

Money: Charity Counts.(Brief Article)
February 3, 2003... Byline: Linda Stern That old sweat-shirt was worth how much? As much as $14, according to ItsDeductible, a program that helps taxpayers assign reasonable--and defensible--values to the items they donate to charity and then take as a tax...

Food: Please Stop Wining!(pairing cheese and beer)(Brief Article)
February 3, 2003... Byline: Bret Begun A wine-and-cheese party? Too stuffy. Last week the Boston DineAround paired cheese and beer; Tip Sheet's Bret Begun liked these selections. See newengland cheese.com or cabotcheese.com for other ideas. India Pale...

Home: A Better Bedtime.(soft sheets)(Brief Article)
February 3, 2003... Byline: Katherine Stroup Getting out of bed is always tough in winter. Want to make it absolutely impossible? Hit the post-holiday white sales for a set of luxuriously soft sheets. First, forget about thread count. The most important thing...

Technology: Different Strokes.(Graffiti 2 software )(Brief Article)
February 3, 2003... Byline: Joe Hutsko Coming soon to new handhelds running Palm's OS: Graffiti 2, a more natural character recognizer that doesn't mind when users cross their t's and dot their i's--two-stroke characters the original Graffiti couldn't handle....

Being Sarah Pettit: Editor, gay activist and happy warrior: Sarah B. Pettit, 1966-2003.(Obituary)(Biography)
February 3, 2003... Byline: David Gates Maybe one reader in a thousand knew Sarah Pettit's name, but they knew her mind and sensibility, which would have pleased her just as much. (Well, more or less just as much.) From the spring of 1999 until her death last...

Here's to the Little People.(President Bush's strange decision to ask for a cut in dividend taxes )
February 10, 2003... Byline: Anna Quindlen Most Americans could be forgiven some confusion during the State of the Union address when the president said solemnly, as though he were reciting a key section of the Constitution, "I ask you to end the unfair double...

A Tale of Two Towers.(an exhibition of architectural models for the World Trade Center site)
February 10, 2003... Byline: Cathleen McGuigan New York City is getting more than its share of great exhibitions these days--Leonardo da Vinci's drawings at the Met; Picasso and Matisse coming to MoMA--but the surprise blockbuster of the season has to be this:...

Back to the Future: The Columbian Exposition of 1893--complete with a mass murderer--foretold the fate of American cities.('The Devil in the White City')(Book Review)
February 10, 2003... Byline: Malcolm Jones If we think of the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 at all, it is probably as fodder for some television quiz-show question: what do the Pledge of Allegiance, shredded wheat, the Ferris wheel and historian Frederick...

A First-Timer Whose Aim Is True.('Officer')(Book Review)
February 10, 2003... Byline: Jeff Giles Lewis Robinson's first book, "Officer Friendly" (HarperCollins), is a quirky, suspenseful little volume of stories so rich with strange characters and twists and turns of plot that it doesn't feel like a short-story...

'I Wanted to Be Here All Of the Time': A writer's account of a decade on the mean streets.('Random Family')(Book Review)(Brief Article)
February 10, 2003... Byline: Michael J. Agovino Adrian Nicole LeBlanc is walking through rancid streets in the central-west Bronx, pointing out the sights. "A woman over there sells ice pops from her window," she says. "And someone here charges a quarter for...

An Eerily Timely Tale of Fanaticism.('Agent 146')(Book Review)(Brief Article)
February 10, 2003... Byline: Andrew Nagorski A foreign agent slips into the United States with deadly intent, and finds the country scarily easy to penetrate. A troubled young American defects to the enemy. No, this isn't a 9-11 tale. It's about World War...

Bush's Depressing Economy: Everything will work out just fine, the president says. But a close look at his economic record so far suggests that he has a 'fuzzy math' problem.(stocks have fallen at a higher percentage during the first two years of the Bush administration than during that time under any other modern administration)
February 10, 2003... Byline: Allan Sloan President Bush radiated calm and assurance about the troubled economy in his State of the Union Message last week. "To bring our economy out of recession, we delivered the largest tax relief in a generation," our...

Correction.
February 10, 2003... In a caption accompanying a photo of the 1941 University of Michigan football team in our Jan. 27 issue, we said that 4.3 percent of the players on the team were black ("What's at Stake"). The correct figure (for the varsity team) is 1.7...

Conventional Wisdom: Columbia Memorial Edition.
February 10, 2003... The worst phone call you can get from a friend or relative these days is "turn on your TV." And it won't be the last time that's likely to happen this year. C.W. Crew + "They slipped the surly bonds of Earth..." Consolation:...

Mail Call: Not Just an Issue of Black and White.
February 10, 2003... Scores of impassioned readers of our Jan. 27 cover story shared their thoughts about and experiences with affirmative action. While many lauded the opportunities afforded over the past 30 years, others bitterly decried what one called a policy...

No More Hide and Seek: Armed with secret new intelligence, including NSA intercepts, America takes the case against Saddam to the world.
February 10, 2003... Byline: Michael Hirsh and Michael Isikoff Only Nixon could go to China. And maybe only Colin Powell can persuade the world of the wisdom of invading Iraq. It sometimes takes a hawk to make peace, and a dove to deliver the best case for war....

Psy-Ops and War Prep: Iraqis are stocking up on rice and flour. When they get an e-mail from U.S. intelligence, the smart move is to report it.
February 10, 2003... Byline: Melinda Liu Dr. Muthafar Adhami, a prominent Iraqi academic, was watching TV at home not long ago when his 14-year-old son Farad suddenly stopped surfing the Internet and said, "Daddy, come see this." Adhami had received an unusual...

A $12 Billion Question: Sharon wants a huge new aid package. Bush needs a viable Israeli-Palestinian peace process. Can they make a deal?
February 10, 2003... Byline: Joshua Hammer A sense of urgency filled the meeting at the Old Executive Office Building in Washington, D.C. For four hours, a team of high-ranking Israeli officials sat with their counterparts from the State Department last month,...

Trouble Everywhere: Guerrillas, paramilitaries, drugs and terror: Colombia's president wants the world to act now on another big threat.(Interview)
February 10, 2003... Byline: Lally Weymouth Colombia's new president, Alvaro Uribe Velez, 50, argues that the challenges he faces should be as important to Washington as the threat from Iraq: the Colombian war is in America's neighborhood, he points out, and...

A Dangerous Trust Deficit: Europe faces a test. The rising tide of anti-Americanism might destroy the Atlantic Alliance and impoverish the life of Europe.
February 10, 2003... Byline: Fareed Zakaria "We can't do an Adlai Stevenson," admitted an administration official about Colin Powell's upcoming speech to the U.N. Security Council. What he meant was that the administration did not have the smoking gun that...

The Editor's Desk.
February 10, 2003... Byline: Mark Whitaker It was 17 years ago, almost to the calendar date, but it still feels like only yesterday. That time we were all watching, and the shock was of disbelief. How could the shuttle Challenger, the shining proof of how...

Bring On the Windmills: On the (un)making of Terry Gilliam's 'Don Quixote'.(Movie Review)
February 10, 2003... Byline: David Ansen When Terry Gilliam attempted to make his longtime dream project, a film of "Don Quixote," whatever could go wrong did go wrong. Luckily--and it was the only bit of good luck--documentary filmmakers Keith Fulton and...

Demystifying the Adoption Option: Was taking in my brother-in-law's kids a noble act? I quickly realized the answer is beside the point.
February 10, 2003... Byline: Nancy Hanner Eleven years ago, I arrived at the funeral of my brother-in-law as both a mourning relative and the sudden legal guardian of his two children. It was the family's second funeral in the course of a year. Nine months...

Spies, Lies & Iraq: The access is spotty. The defectors double-deal. The spooks and the generals can't agree on whom to trust. No wonder it's so hard to figure out what Saddam is up to.
February 10, 2003... Byline: Mark Hosenball and Evan Thomas The woman claimed to be Saddam Hussein's former mistress. Last September, on ABC's "Primetime Thursday," she described the Iraqi strongman as a Viagra enthusiast who enjoyed listening to recordings of...

Bush's War at Home: Defang Saddam, then spend the capital on the domestic agenda. Will the plan for avoiding 41's fate work?
February 10, 2003... Byline: Howard Fineman George W. Bush never liked "grinds." They were totally uncool at Andover and Yale; all-nighters were for lounge lizards like Bill Clinton. But even before the space shuttle Columbia exploded last Saturday, White...

Out of the Blue: On a picture-perfect Texas morning, the shuttle Columbia was heading home when tragedy struck, leaving the country and the world wondering what went wrong-and honoring the lives of seven brave astronauts.
February 10, 2003... Correction: 2/12/03 In a Feb. 10 graphic we printed a photo that identified the manufacturer of the shuttle Columbia's nose and wing tiles as BFGoodrich. That company, now known as the Goodrich Corp., did not make the Columbia's nose and wing...

The Right Stuff: THE CREW: Pilots with Ph.D.s and soldiers who were scientists, the Columbia astronauts were talented and tough. Portraits of the lost.
February 10, 2003... Byline: Written by Weston Kosova, Sam Seibert, Seth Mnookin and Joshua Hammer. Reported by Suzanne Smalley, Elizabeth Austin, Dan Ephron, Rebecca Sinderbrand, Daniel McGinn, Daniel Dorfman and Sudip Mazumdar For 16 days they were up there,...

Newsmakers.(Interview)
February 10, 2003... Byline: Susannah Meadows; Mark Starr Psst--Wanna Buy A Tangled Yarn? Suppose someone you didn't know told you that a pimp from Dubai heard that Gary Condit had told somebody at some Arab embassy that he was trying to get rid of a...

Perspectives.
February 10, 2003... Byline: Quotation sources from top to bottom, left to right: The Washington Post, New York Post, Reuters, CNN, New York Times (2), CNN (2), "Entertainment Tonight" "The Columbia is gone. There are no survivors." President George W....

North Korea: Diplomacy Hits the Wall.(nuclear inspectors blocked from taking North Korea to U.N. Security Council)
February 10, 2003... Byline: Richard Wolffe For the Bush administration, the worsening nuclear crisis in North Korea is turning into an exercise in frustration. For years conservatives inside the administration have longed to face down the Stalinist state. But...

CIA & FBI: A Forced Marriage.(new Terrorist Threat Integration Center will fuse intelligence from both agencies)(Brief Article)
February 10, 2003... Byline: Michael Isikoff President Bush's announcement last week of a new Terrorist Threat Integration Center masked still simmering tensions between the FBI and CIA. The new office, which will be overseen by CIA Director George Tenet, is...

AIDS: A Crisis Gets Its Due.($15 billion AIDS-relief announced in Bush's State of the Union address)(Brief Article)
February 10, 2003... Byline: Debra Rosenberg and Tamara Lipper When George W. Bush unveiled a $15 billion AIDS-relief package in last week's State of the Union, he showed a new enthusiasm for solving the epidemic--and a willingness to buck two of his key...

Transition: Leslie Fiedler, 85.(Brief Article)(Obituary)
February 10, 2003... Byline: David Gates "The typical pattern with one of my books," maverick literary critic Leslie Fiedler told NEWSWEEK in 1984, "is that when it comes out everybody abuses it. Ten years later they're still abusing it, but they've begun to...

Panhandling: Banning Begging.(anti-begging ordinances adopted in 46 largest cities)(Brief Article)
February 10, 2003... Byline: Paul Tolme Hey, mister, can you spare some change for a lawyer? With a sharp rise in the number of anti-begging ordinances adopted across the country in the past several years, times are tough for the American panhandler. Forty-six...

LAWSUITS: Food Fight.(lawsuits planned against fast food resaturants and producers of herbal weight-loss supplements)(Brief Article)
February 10, 2003... Byline: Daniel McGinn New York lawyer Samuel Hirsch weighs 155 pounds, eats tuna for lunch nearly every day and, because he keeps kosher, has never eaten at McDonald's. But when he decided last summer to sue the restaurant chain on behalf...

Exclusive: Sincerely, Ken Starr.(Excerpt)
February 10, 2003... Wondering what happened to Ken Starr after Whitewater? NEWSWEEK has obtained a copy of Starr's Christmas missive, which (in his own words) provides an update: "Ken... is currently devoting himself to the campaign finance litigation now...

Books: The Toxic Avenger.(Interview)
February 10, 2003... Byline: B.B. Rick Marin and I overlapped at NEWSWEEK for only a bit. It's really too bad. After reading "Cad: Confessions of a Toxic Bachelor," due out next week, I'm thinking he would have made a superb mentor. He schooled me last week:...

Food: Layering On Lardo.(chefs using lard)(Brief Article)
February 10, 2003... Byline: Bret Begun Look up. You see that photograph? That, friends, is what you call lardo, which is the Italian way to say lard, which is another name for pork fat. At his new Manhattan place, Otto, chef Mario Batali is slicing thin...

HOAXES: Hey, Don't You Have a Sister?(Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen's pending college choice)(Brief Article)
February 10, 2003... Byline: B.B. Where Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, two of America's richest teenagers, wind up going to college will certainly make news. But the announcement probably won't generate massive global interest. Which is why guys across America...

Show Kids The Money? If the money teens spend isn't really theirs, says a new book, then they will have no compelling reason to closely track how they spend it.
February 10, 2003... Byline: Robert J. Samuelson One of my bad habits is contemplating my failures as a parent. The evidence of this surrounds me. My teenagers watch too much television and spend too much time on videogames (even though we remove the...

An Old Enemy Is Back: Syphilis is on the rise among urban men nationwide.
February 10, 2003... Byline: Claudia Kalb It was supposed to be on its way out. Just four years ago, syphilis--the "great pox" of the 15th century--had declined to rates so low in this country that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced a...

'Punkin Suite' Pride: FIRST PERSON: What's it really like to re-enter Earth's atmosphere from space? A personal account from a man who's made the trip in two different generations.
February 10, 2003... Byline: John Glenn We've got a NASA channel on our cable TV here at home, and we were going to watch the landing. Suddenly, everything went off the air and they said they had lost all signal. I knew we had deep problems. Back in the old...

Still Reaching for the Stars: The Future: The second fatal flight in 17 years raises a complex question: what are we willing to pay for manned missions? The war over the next frontier.
February 10, 2003... Byline: Jerry Adler Ever rise quickly from the couch to get something from the kitchen and suddenly feel dizzy?"--From the "Space Research and You" Web page for NASA's STS-107 mission. Everyone has, which is probably why NASA chose...

Ready for her Close-Up (Again): Hasta la vista, Hollywood. The ineffable Whoopi comes back to Broadway.
February 10, 2003... Byline: Allison Samuels My mother told me when I was pretty young that you can be who you are or try hard to be something else," Whoopi Goldberg says, with a toss of those trademark funky dreadlocks. "I was always a lazy b--h, so trying...

Technology: HDTV--Time To Take a Look.
February 10, 2003... Byline: Peter Suciu and N'Gai Croal Six years ago the FCC promised that all television broadcasts would be in high definition, or HD, by 2006. Yet what seemed like a sprint toward the future turned into a crawl as Hollywood studios, TV...