Newsweek articles from February 2004

Newsweek archives from February 2004

Perspectives.
February 2, 2004... "Yeeaagh!" Presidential hopeful Howard Dean, in a much-ridiculed (and remixed) outburst to supporters after his third-place finish in the Iowa caucuses "They may have a vision for the country, and that's fine, but all I see them...

Deadlines: Writing His Book on 'Clinton Time'.
February 2, 2004... Byline: Tamara Lipper If all goes according to plan, Bill Clinton--not John Kerry or even Howard Dean--will be the Democrat in the headlines in the weeks before the Democratic convention this summer. That is, assuming he makes the new...

The Soft Sell; Pitching a new male-impotence drug with romantic images of tender moments.
February 2, 2004... Byline: Keith Naughton During the third quarter of the Super Bowl on Sunday, 90 million viewers will get a break from the rough- and-tumble. A languid 60-second commercial will open with a middle-aged couple in side-by-side bathtubs on a...

A Sudden Disconnect; AT&T Wireless's future once looked brighter than a cell-phone screen. After a dizzyingly fast fall, it's on the auction block. What went wrong?
February 2, 2004... Byline: Allan Sloan Watching At&T Wireless the past few years has been painful, like witnessing the decline of an old family friend. The company was once da bomb of telecom. When AT&T Corp. sold a piece of Wireless to the investing public...

Conventional Wisdom; Ditch the Sweaters Edition.(Brief Article)
February 2, 2004... Weapons inspector splits, concluding Saddam had no WMD. Oh well, there's always 'weapons-of-mass-destruction-related program activities.' C.W. Bush = SOU address was campaign speech stuffed with wedge issues. Blasts ...

Mail Call; In Pursuit of Good Health and a Long Life, and more.
February 2, 2004... Readers weighed in with varying opinions on the effectiveness of low-carb diets in promoting "Health for Life," the subject of our Jan. 19 cover package. Although staunch Atkins supporters were glad to see Dr. Robert Atkins "given his due,"...

The Parties' Temptations; Ask urself: Have you ever voted--have you ever met anyone who voted--for a presidential candidate because of his running mate?
February 2, 2004... Byline: George F. Will British prime minister David Lloyd George, asked about the probable place in history of one of his eminent contemporaries (Arthur Balfour), replied, "He will be just like the scent on a pocket handkerchief." This is...

Blood and Honor; Kicking down doors and stomping insurgents, raiders of the One-Eighth now face a new threat: 'bloodline' attacks.(Column)
February 2, 2004... Byline: Michael Hirsh It's been a long, jarring ride into Samarra, a hotbed of insurgency in the Sunni Triangle. Finally the radio crackles the order: dismount. Thank God. The feel of tank treads on asphalt is like driving a car on rims...

Money: Bet Your Bottom Dinar; Buyers go wild for Iraq's new cash. Is it a dangerous wager?(Column)
February 2, 2004... Byline: Rod Nordland and Gameela Ismail, With Joe Cochrane in Baghdad and Christopher Dickey in Davos When the smugglers came to Nabaroh with suitcases full of the stuff, people in the Nile-delta city went wild. Om Alaa, a 63-year-old...

Tough Talk About Terror; Some good news: Pakistan wants peace with India, Iran seems ready for dialogue with the United States and Turkey wants to mediate between Syria and Israel.(Industry Overview)
February 2, 2004... Byline: Lally Weymouth Presidents and Prime Ministers in Muslim countries can lead perilous lives, and they sometimes make decisions that imperil the rest of us. Should they crush terrorists who threaten their regimes, or co-opt them with...

The One-Note Superpower; A funny thing has happened. While the war on terrorism has dominated headlines, the great engine of globalization has kept moving.(Column)
February 2, 2004... Byline: Fareed Zakaria, Write the author at comments@fareedzakaria.com. Covered in blankets of snow, Davos was looking stunning last weekend. The sight even moved the normally unflappable vice president of the United States. Dick Cheney...

The Editor's Desk.(Column)
February 2, 2004... Byline: Mark Whitaker Did the press blow it? Were we too quick to anoint Howard Dean as the Democratic front runner and to write off his opponents? Well, I could point proudly to Howard Fineman 's prescient cover story "Doubts About Dean"...

On the Downbeat; These are dismal days for classical music and jazz. And they'd be even worse if it weren't for the runaway success of Josh Groban--who's not quite classical--and Norah Jones--whose about-to-be released new CD isn't quite jazz. Is serious music an endangered species?
February 2, 2004... Byline: Malcolm Jones and Jennifer Ordonez, With Jac Chebatoris and Allison Samuels Josh Groban has a lot of respect for classical musicians--just don't call him one. "I always considered myself to be influenced by classical music," says...

Review: Jonesing For Home.(Brief Article)
February 2, 2004... Byline: Lorraine Ali It's not easy being jazz's biggest crossover star in decades. Now Norah Jones must maintain the mystique that made her debut, "Come Away With Me," a welcome "TRL" antidote, and continue catering to the almost 8 million...

High Drama At a High Altitude; Two mountaineers reach the end of their rope.(Touching the Void)
February 2, 2004... Byline: David Ansen We toss around the term "cliffhanger" often enough when talking about movies, but if you want to experience the meaning of the word in its purest (and most literal) sense, go see "Touching the Void." The true story of a...

If ER Nurses Crash, Will Patients Follow? I'm so overworked that I go home at night praying I haven't made a mistake that might hurt someone.(emergency room)(Column)
February 2, 2004... Byline: Paul Duke, Duke lives in Southgate, Mich. I was sprinting down the hall when a patient waiting to be seen by a doctor asked me for a blanket. She was in her mid-70s, cold, scared and without any family or friends nearby. Did I have...

Back to the Front; Marrying Kerry: Forget the hype about blogs and backpacks. It's all about getting warm bodies to the polls. How John Kerry got his groove back, mucked up the Bush battle plan--and proved Democrats are thinking hard about who's the most 'electable' challenger to Bush.(Cover Story)
February 2, 2004... Byline: Howard Fineman, With Holly Bailey, T. Trent Gegax and Arian Campo-Flores on the campaign trail and Tamara Lipper in Washington It was pitch dark and zero degrees outside, and the driver had dimmed the fluorescent lights in Sen. John...

The Southern Man to See; After New Hampshire, all roads lead to a sprightly 63-year-old congressman whose voice carries a long way in Dixie.(Cover Story)
February 2, 2004... Byline: Richard Wolffe In South Carolina, they call him their third senator, but the way the presidential candidates are courting him, he might as well be king. It's not just his distinguished presence--his salt-and-pepper hair or his...

Getting Past Vietnam; Berkeley was ground zero of the antiwar movement. But today's students demand more than old ghosts.
February 2, 2004... Byline: Michelle Myers, Myers is a senior at the University of California, Berkeley. She is one of five college journalists writing periodically about Campaign 2004 for Newsweek and Newsweek.com. Though he may call himself "Comeback Kerry,"...

'I'm a Good Closer'; In the clinches: The problems are not new--the aloof image, the naked ambition, the pretentious initials. But John F. Kerry has always dug deep, and found a way to win.(Cover Story)
February 2, 2004... Byline: Evan Thomas, With Holly Bailey in New Hampshire In the 1996 U.S. Senate race in Massachusetts, the wise guys in the Boston media and political establishment toasted Gov. William Weld and made fun of incumbent Sen. John Kerry. Kerry...

A Smile of Steel; Charmed: John Edwards has a simple strategy that has propelled him to success in the courtroom and on the campaign trail--no one ever sees him coming.(Cover Story)
February 2, 2004... Byline: Melinda Henneberger, With Arian Campo-Flores and Catharine Skipp For 20 years, Democratic presidential contender John Edwards made a good living taking on guys like Howard Dean. Yet even after Edwards became one of the most...

The Doctor's Switch to Decaf; Dean may well prove an important factor in the 2004 campaign. At a minimum, he's the man who gave the Democrats their mojo back.
February 2, 2004... Byline: Jonathan Alter After the thousandth showing, "the scream" was still a scream to anyone but Dean supporters, priceless hara-kiri video that will live forever in campaign lore and the good doctor's nightmares. But the moment was not...

The General: Did Clark Fail to Salute? Wes Clark won a war, but ran afoul of his Pentagon masters and lost his job. Here's how. A NEWSWEEK exclusive.(Cover Story)
February 2, 2004... Byline: Evan Thomas and T. Trent Gegax One of the most damning charges against retired Gen. Wesley Clark has also been the vaguest. After Clark entered the Democratic race last September, Gen. Hugh Shelton, former chairman of the Joint...

Newsmakers.(Brief Article)
February 2, 2004... Byline: Nicki Gostin, Devin Gordon Q&A: Kurt Russell He's Hollywood's quintessential citizen: debuted in an Elvis flick at 10, was signed to a contract by Walt Disney himself, has lived with Goldie Hawn for 20 years and made more films...

Politics: A New Role for Maria?(Brief Article)
February 2, 2004... Byline: Karen Breslau Maria Shriver insisted during California's recall campaign she would get back to work as an NBC News correspondent "the day this is over." Sure enough, as Arnold Schwarzenegger was sworn in last November, Shriver...

No More Watchdog.(Brief Article)
February 2, 2004... Byline: Mark Hosenball A U.N. task force that fought the flow of money to Al Qaeda expired last month. After 9/11, U.N. members were required to freeze the assets of companies, charities and individuals who law-enforcement and intelligence...

Disney: Keeping Mickey Mouse's Airspace Secure.(Brief Article)
February 2, 2004... Byline: Mark Hosenball When the latest Orange terror alert was issued at Christmas, Walt Disney parks were included on maps outlining "no-flight zones." But government officials tell NEWSWEEK that there was no intelligence indicating a...

Admissions: Bet You're Sorry Now.(rejection of applications)(Brief Article)
February 2, 2004... Byline: Daniel McGinn As a high-school senior, former Treasury secretary Robert Rubin applied to Harvard (accepted) and Princeton (rejected). Four years later Rubin sent a letter to the Princeton admissions director: "You might be...

What the Well-Dressed Child Will Borrow.(Brief Article)
February 2, 2004... Byline: Holly Peterson All babies take their first steps, say their first words. But for children of a certain Manhattan ZIP code, namely 10021, parents can add another milestone to the list: the first red-carpet moment. Afternoon...

Kucinich: He's Getting Creamed.(Brief Article)
February 2, 2004... Byline: Meredith Sadin Presidential hopeful Dennis Kucinich has been racking up an eclectic group of supporters: Granny D, 89, who walked across the country in the name of campaign-finance reform; Arun Gandhi, grandson of the mahatma;...

Fast Chat: 'I'm a Junk-Food Junkie'.(Interview)
February 2, 2004... Byline: David Noonan and George Hackett Three-time super Bowl MVP Joe Montana is a spokesman for drugmaker Novartis, raising awareness about high blood pressure, which afflicts about one in four American adults. The 47-year-old Montana,...

Predictions: Sony's Crystal Bowl.
February 2, 2004... Byline: N'Gai Croal What's the most reliable predictor of the outcome of this Sunday's Super Bowl XXXVIII in Houston? You could just pick the NFC champion: it won 15 of the last 20 matchups. But there's a forecast that odds watchers may...

Transition.(portrayls)(Brief Article)
February 2, 2004... Byline: Paul Moakley HELMUT NEWTON, 83 Photographic visionary Newton challenged ordinary notions of sexuality and influenced fashion photography for more than 40 years. He was best known for his fashion editorials in Vogue, Vanity Fair...

Colleges' New Tuition Crisis; Rising costs and funding cuts are resegregating higher education, not by color but by class. Low-income students find it hard to pay for a degree.
February 2, 2004... Byline: Jane Bryant Quinn, Reporter Associate: Temma Ehrenfeld Higher education is getting less, not more public financial support. That's astonishing, in a country that knows the jobs of the future will require more knowledge and technical...

Books: Rewriting History; These kids' books are a real blast from the past.
February 2, 2004... Byline: Karen Springen Ann Dehovitz, 46, doesn't remember learning much history as a kid. "The Revolutionary War and the Civil War--that was about it," she says. But it's easy for her daughter, Rebecca, a sixth grader in Palo Alto, Calif.,...

Serena's Next Game; Sidelined by knee surgery, the tennis champ talks about life off the court--including her acting career.
February 2, 2004... Byline: Susannah Meadows A year ago Serena Williams was on her way to beating her sister Venus to clinch the Australian Open title and complete the Serena Slam--holding all four major championships at once. This year at the Australian,...

OK, Mac, Make a Wish; Apple's 'computer for the rest of us' is, insanely, 20.
February 2, 2004... Byline: Steven Levy Twenty years ago there was panic in Cupertino, Calif. Only a week remained before the team of whiz kids designing Apple's radical new computer had to turn in the final code. The giant factory was ready. The...

Technology: Can't Take It With You.
February 2, 2004... Byline: David J. Jefferson, With Barney Gimbel It sounded so easy: change cell-phone carriers and keep your number. You make a phone call; your new company sends a few e-mails, punches in a little code and voila : new phone, same number....

Travel: Beyond Tacos.(Brief Article)
February 2, 2004... Byline: Dave Roos There's more to Mexican food than burritos. These cooking classes will help you think outside the Old El Paso box. Seasons of My Heart www.seasonsofmyheart.com At her Oaxacan homestead, Susana Trilling...

Software: Mouse Music.(Garage Band)(Brief Article)
February 2, 2004... Byline: Steven Levy Last week the internet was rocking with copies of Howard Dean's "Crazy in Iowa" speech to a hip-hop soundtrack. The tool? Garage Band, Apple's newest entry to its $49 iLife suite of DIY media makers. GB allows even the...

Road Test: Pontiac GTO; Bland But Brawny.(Brief Article)(Product/Service Evaluation)
February 2, 2004... Byline: Tara Weingarten When the GTO first hit the road 40 years ago, it was General Motors' answer to the Ferrari. The all-new GTO reminds me of a guy with a stellar six-pack stomach and buff pecs, but who hides them under cheapo sweats....

Ask Tip Sheet.(Brief Article)
February 2, 2004... Byline: Kyle Monson Do our bodies expend more calories when we're healing from a wound? --Monica Ng, San Francisco, Calif. The short answer is yes. To prove it, hold your hand over the wound. The heat you feel coming out is caused...

Money: Happy Returns.(Brief Article)
February 2, 2004... Byline: Jennifer Barrett Sure, the tax-filing dead-line is still months away. But why procrastinate--especially when the government probably owes you money? Almost everyone with a taxable income benefits from last year's cuts. A single...

Health: Liquid Diets.(Brief Article)
February 2, 2004... Byline: Jenny Hontz Atkins adherents have spawned a new revolution: the low-carb cocktail. While hard liquors like gin and vodka come carb-free, dieters should avoid sugary mixes. Oliver, a Beverly Hills restaurant opening this week, will...

Family: Potty Talk.(Brief Article)
February 2, 2004... Byline: Karen Springen Toilet training can cause plenty of anxiety--for parents. Dr. T. Berry Brazelton urges calm in his new book "Toilet Training: The Brazelton Way." Advice from the expert: Most parents can't wait until their kids...

What's on 'Todd TV'? You Decide.(Brief Article)
February 2, 2004... Byline: Marc Peyser It's an election year, so naturally reality TV has come up with its own form of getting out the vote. On FX's "Todd TV," the audience selects the plot twists. Should Todd quit his job? Who should be his next roommate?...

A World of Danger; Washington had as much time for the world's nuclear watchdog group as it did for the United Nations. Who's laughing now? No one.(Interview)
February 9, 2004... Byline: Lally Weymouth The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has been shouldered aside by the Bush administration in Iraq and Libya and kicked out of North Korea by Kim Jong Il. Yet now even Washington admits that Saddam didn't...

Newsmakers.
February 9, 2004... Byline: Jennifer Ordonzez, Jac Chebatoris A Bumpy Night--Amid all the air-kissing at this weekend's Grammy parties, there could be some uncomfortable moments as music execs make nice with their rivals--and try to figure out who their rivals...

Perspectives.
February 9, 2004... "They have been hidden." Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, a longtime critic of Saddam Hussein, on having "every belief" that weapons of mass destruction could be found "All of us have made mistakes in our lives." Cleveland...

Slogan, Signs, Flag, Spouse; The wives who get the most scrutiny are those who least conform to the little-woman standard. If you have a career or are outspoken, beware!
February 9, 2004... Byline: Anna Quindlen Was I the only person whose heart sank when Judy Dean popped up on TV? After all those times that her husband said she was busy running her medical practice and wouldn't be used as a prop in his presidential campaign,...

The New Math: Make a Wish; President Bush's idea that a strong economy will let us make tax cuts permanent and grow our way out of budget trouble doesn't add up.
February 9, 2004... Byline: Allan Sloan, Sloan is Newsweek's Wall Street editor. His e-mail is sloan@panix.com. Optimism is a wonderful thing. it makes life fun, and it's a real help in being successful. But optimism's close relative, wishful thinking, can...

Conventional Wisdom; ELECTORAL DYSFUNCTION EDITION.(Brief Article)
February 9, 2004... The CW is set to stick a fork in the Democratic contest, but there's still a month to go before Super Tuesday--plenty of time for all sorts of blunders. C.W. Bush - Tries to squelch 9/11 probe, no one pays for WMD fiasco....

Mail Call; On Picking and Choosing the Sex of Your Child.
February 9, 2004... Most readers had their minds already made up on the issue of gender selection, our Jan. 26 cover topic. Some were heartened by the strides in reproductive technology. A mother of two children with an inherited neuromuscular disease lauded PGD...

On the Road, By the Sea; On this trip through North Carolina's Outer Banks, you'll glide across the Atlantic--and retrace history.
February 9, 2004... Byline: James T. Yenckel The drive through North Carolina's Outer Banks feels more like a voyage: miles of windswept waves stretch out on either side as your car glides farther and farther into the Atlantic. This remote strip of islands,...

Racing the Clock in Iraq; Our intel about what the postwar scene would look like was wrong, too. Now Paul Bremer, America's modern-day MacArthur, has only five more months to make it all work.
February 9, 2004... Byline: Michael Hirsh "What's next?" It's Jerry Bremer's mantra, his passion. Dreamy visions for Iraq's future, once so much part of the war rhetoric in Washington, only irk him at this late stage. "Schedule, schedule, schedule--that's...

What Went Wrong; He was the most dangerous man alive, sitting atop a massive stockpile of deadly weapons. The only way to end the gathering threat was to take Saddam out--and fast. Only there wasn't any WMD. The fateful fictions that led to war.(Cover Story)
February 9, 2004... Byline: John Barry and Mark Hosenball, With Michael Isikoff and Tamara Lipper in Washington, Rod Nordland in Baghdad, Christopher Dickey in Paris and Christian Caryl in New York Saddam Hussein was holed up in his palace putting the final...

We Had Good Intel--The U.N.'S; The inspectors were 'HUMINT.' They were far more accurate, it turned out, than billions of dollars of satellites.
February 9, 2004... Byline: Fareed Zakaria, Write the author at comments@fareedzakaria.com. "We were all wrong," says weapons inspector David Kay. Actually, no. There was one group whose prewar estimates of Iraqi nuclear, chemical and biological capabilities...

The Editor's Desk.
February 9, 2004... Byline: Mark Whitaker For a year now, this magazine has raised tough questions about the intelligence that was presented to justify going to war with Iraq. When Secretary of State Colin Powell testified before the United Nations last...

The Visionaries; Oscar Round Table 2004: On Jan. 24, we gathered five great directors to talk about inspirational movies, exasperating studios, childhood dreams and piracy nightmares.(Panel Discussion)
February 9, 2004... Byline: David Ansen and Jeff Giles Early on in the conversation that follows between five of this year's most formidable filmmakers, "Cold Mountain's" writer-director Anthony Minghella points out the absurdity of talking about "Return of...

The Players: Five at the Top of The Mountain; Their films stirred us, tickled us and touched us in '03. A moviegoers' guide.(Peter Jackson, Sofia Coppola, Clint Eastwood, Gary Ross, Anthony Minghella)
February 9, 2004... Byline: Devin Gordon In case you haven't caught the latest efforts by the participants in our round table, here's what you're missing. And if you're really behind, a brief biography of each director. 'The Return of the King': In the...

Industry Chatter: And the Nominees Aren't... Oscar giveth, but he also taketh away. Just ask Miramax. 'City of God' soared. 'Cold Mountain' got the cold shoulder.
February 9, 2004... Byline: Sean Smith The Academy Awards nominations always throw a few shockers into the mix, but when the 2003 contenders were announced last Tuesday, almost every category inspired gasps. A 13-year-old girl, Keisha Castle-Hughes of...

Praise the Lord! (And Howard Dean, Too.); As a believer whose beliefs don't always jibe, I know that where there's tolerance, there's brotherhood.
February 9, 2004... Byline: Kathleen Fox, Fox lives in Tenants Harbor, Maine. I am a born-again liberal. That is, my politics are liberal and two years ago I was baptized in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Maine, while the congregation of my church stood...

Run to Daylight; Eye on the goal line: Dean imploded. Edwards drawled. Clark prayed. And Kerry took another long dash toward his dream. Can he go all the way?(Howard Dean, John Edwards, Wesley K. Clark, John Kerry)
February 9, 2004... Byline: Richard Wolffe, With Howard Fineman, T. Trent Gegax, Rebecca Sinderbrand and Arian Campo-Flores on the campaign trail After all the cheap motels, the long hours on the road and two bruising defeats, they were looking forward to...

Cash and Kerry; The gift: He rails against big donors, but he knows the drill. Just ask Johnny Chung.(John Kerry)
February 9, 2004... Byline: Michael Isikoff, With Holly Bailey John Kerry needed cash, and soon. In July 1996 the Massachusetts senator was locked in a tough re-election fight, so he was more than happy to help when he heard that a generous potential...

The Real Kerry; Students once turned off by the Massachusetts senator now gush about his electability. But Bush is still the man to beat.(John Kerry, George W. Bush)
February 9, 2004... Byline: Ryan Gorsche, Gorsche, a Dartmouth senior, is one of five college journalists covering Campaign 2004 for Newsweek and Newsweek.com. The crumbling of Howard Dean's candidacy is bittersweet for college conservatives. Sure, we're glad...

Touch of Harry In the Night; In 1988 it was Dukakis who looked silly in a tank. This time, Kerry shivs George Bush for 'playing dress-up aboard an aircraft carrier.'.
February 9, 2004... Byline: Jonathan Alter Max Cleland reads Shakespeare. In Columbia, S.C., last week, the triple amputee who lost his Senate seat in 2002 quoted "Henry V" to an audience of fellow Vietnam veterans who support John Kerry: "We few, we happy...

Bin Laden: Will We Get Him in '04?(Osama bin Laden)
February 9, 2004... Byline: Mark Hosenball Osama bin Laden and other terrorist leaders have apparently improved their odds of evading capture by flitting back and forth across borders that American military forces cannot easily cross. U.S. intelligence...

Exclusive: Soldiers--A Question Of Suicide.(Operation Iraqi Freedom)(Brief Article)
February 9, 2004... Byline: Pat Wingert and T. Trent Gegax Are soldiers fighting in Iraq more likely than other soldiers to take their own lives? According to a long-awaited Army report, due next week, 19 soldiers serving in Operation Iraqi Freedom committed...

Halliburton: Cheney--A 'Risk Factor'.(Brief Article)
February 9, 2004... Byline: Allan Sloan Halliburton, the big contracting company that Dick Cheney used to run, is now warning investors that its Cheney connection is what Wall Street calls a "risk factor." No, the company's not talking about the...

Transition.(Brief Article)
February 9, 2004... Byline: Elise Soukup Lloyd Bucher, 76 A surviving POW, Bucher is best known for having given up. As the commanding officer of the U.S. spy ship Pueblo when it was captured off North Korea in 1968, he feared a massacre and surrendered...

Microsoft: Hey, You've Got Worms.(Mydoom)(Brief Article)
February 9, 2004... Byline: Steven Levy Last week the internet--and maybe your own PC--hosted Mydoom, the fastest-growing computer worm ever. Like its parasitic predecessors (Blaster, Sobig), this troublemaker appears as an e-mail with a misleading subject...

Trash: Into Treasure?(Plasma Converter)(Brief Article)
February 9, 2004... Byline: Mary Carmichael Even without the time travel, it's a stretch to say that "Back to the Future Part II" was even a little realistic. Case in point: shouldn't we have flying cars by now? But one of the movie's other snazzy...

Profiling: Policing The Police.(racial profiling)(Brief Article)(Column)
February 9, 2004... Byline: Sarah Childress Now that home-land Security has reignited the racial-profiling debate, national lawmakers plan to introduce a bill in early February requiring police officers to record the driver's race at traffic stops or risk...

Fast Chat: Humble Heroics.(Sharon Robinson)(Interview)(Biography)
February 9, 2004... Byline: Elise Soukup Sharon Robinson, Jackie Robinson's only daughter, this week releases "Promises to Keep: How Jackie Robinson Changed America," a picture biography of her father. She spoke with NEWSWEEK's Elise Soukup about being raised...

Exercise: Two More Reps, Ma!
February 9, 2004... Byline: Lindsey Gerdes Doctors once worried that weight lifting could damage a kid's growth plates. But more preteens have been pumping iron since current studies showed that, when it's done in moderation, possible benefits include...

Finances: Save It, Sweetie.
February 9, 2004... Byline: Adam Bryant Budgets are useless. Nobody sticks to them (and the credit-card industry is eternally grateful). It's refreshing to find a personal-finance book acknowledging that, along with other reality checks about how people...

The European Predicament; Its economy is enfeebled by high taxes and regulations. Unless leaders take unpopular steps today, Europe faces dire consequences.
February 9, 2004... Byline: Robert J. Samuelson Let's be clear. If Europe's economy was healthy it would grow about 4 percent annually for a few years and then settle down to a respectable 2.5 percent or 3 percent. The initial burst would absorb surplus...

Takeout Nation; American families still manage to eat dinner together, they just don't want to cook it. How our busy lives and more sophisticated tastes are transforming the food industry. And why that fancy new kitchen is always so clean.
February 9, 2004... Byline: Jerry Adler, With Julie Scelfo in New York, Karen Springen in Chicago, Joan Raymond in Cleveland, Tara Weingarten in Los Angeles, Jason McLure in Boston and Karen Breslau in San Francisco By the scores, by the hundreds, the...

Shop Therapy for Guys; New magazines help men overcome the fear of buying.
February 9, 2004... Byline: Julie Scelfo If we've learned anything from "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy," it's this: hetero men want to look good, too. The Fab Five can't be everywhere, but soon an entire category of magazines will exist to help men shop....

A Family's Tangled Ties; Utah prosecutors crack down on incest and polygamy.(Kingstons)
February 9, 2004... Byline: Andrew Murr and Elise Soukup Lu Ann Kingston was 15 when she married her first cousin Jeremy Kingston in a hush-hush 1995 wedding in Bountiful, Utah. As members of a secretive society of "fundamentalist Mormons" whose leaders...

Hey, Mickey: Buzz Off! After a 12-year marriage, Pixar and Disney say it's over.
February 9, 2004... Byline: Steven Levy and David J. Jefferson, With Sean Smith in Los Angeles A key element in a pixar film is the sometimes contentious but ultimately triumphant bond between two great friends. Buzz and Woody. Sulley and Mike. Marlin and...

Health: Hope Sprouts Eternal.
February 9, 2004... Byline: Karen Springen Ken Washenik, 44, uses every available weapon in his battle against baldness. More than 15 years ago he started rubbing Rogaine onto his scalp twice a day. Five years ago he added the pill Propecia to his daily...

Travel: Fantasy Islands.
February 9, 2004... Byline: Michelle Jana Flee the winter freeze by jetting off to a tropical paradise. These private-island resorts will wrap you in the warmth you've been missing back home. But be warned: bliss doesn't come cheap. North Island,...

In The News: Fight Fat Earlier.
February 9, 2004... Byline: Karen Springen Moms already know that breast-feeding can reduce their baby's chances of developing diarrhea, ear infections and allergies. Now a new study, published in the February issue of Pediatrics, shows that nursing can also...