Newsweek articles from January 2004

Newsweek archives from January 2004

Flown Away, Left Behind: The empty nest is emptier than ever; after all, at its center was something so enormous that a good deal had to be sacrificed for it.
January 12, 2004... Byline: Anna Quindlen I was something of an accidental mother. I don't mean that in the old traditional whoops! way; it's just that while I barreled through my 20s convinced that having a baby would be like carrying a really large and...

Detroit's Hot Butons: Forget about a car that simply starts every morning. Drivers want some mood with their metal. So Motown has a new challenge: designing 'emotional quality.'.(Industry Overview)
January 12, 2004... Byline: Keith Naughton In a darkened room deep inside Ford Motor Co.'s top-secret design studios, Elizabeth Baron slides behind the wheel of the $140,000 GT sports car. She adjusts her seat and reaches for the stick shift. Suddenly, Baron...

Mail Call: Differing Testimony About Lawsuits.(Letter to the Editor)
January 12, 2004... Of the more than 300 readers responding to our Dec. 15 cover story on litigation, the majority thought we were too sympathetic to the accused. "The headlines LAWSUIT HELL and CIVIL WARS themselves previewed a business-slanted attack on our...

Stressed Out at the Front: The wounds are hard to see, and soldiers often try to hide them. In the field with combat-stress teams.
January 12, 2004... Byline: Rod Nordland and T. Trent Gegax Sgt. Kim Eimers understands now why her father never talked about his time as a soldier in Vietnam. When she gets back from Iraq, where she's stationed with the Fourth Infantry Division in Baqubah,...

Enemies in High Places? It seems Musharraf's attackers had good intelligence.(assasination attempts)
January 12, 2004... Byline: Adam Piore with Zahid Hussain and Sami Yousafzai in Pakistan, and Ron Moreau It's no secret that Osama bin Laden and his lieutenants want Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf dead. Last Sept. 11, bin Laden's top deputy, Ayman...

The Despot and His Demons: Suddenly, Kaddafi wants to make nice and give up his big nuclear ambitions. Score one for Team Bush.
January 12, 2004... Byline: Michael Hirsh Muammar Kaddafi ranks high in that small pantheon of world leaders who inspire both horror and humor. The Libyan dictator has sponsored or supported some of the worst acts of terror in memory, most notoriously the...

Flights of Fear: The Code Orange holidays were a jittery time on the terror front. Behind the warnings--and the 'chatter' that produced them.
January 12, 2004... Byline: Mark Hosenball and Michael Isikoff All night, long after the televised cheers and hugs celebrating the arrival of a fresh new year, national-security officials manning the White House Situation Room waited for the worst. Only 10...

The Editor's Desk.(Editorial)
January 12, 2004... Byline: Mark Whitaker How can we make our political coverage even better? Every four years, as we approach another presidential election, we ask ourselves that question. In the past, it's led to groundbreaking ideas like detaching a team...

A Winter Wasteland: For years, January's been where bad movies go to die.
January 12, 2004... Byline: Sean Smith T. S. Eliot was wrong. January, not April, is the cruelest month. Think "Supernova," with James Spader. "Snow Dogs," with Cuba Gooding Jr. "Kung Pow: Enter the Fist," with, uh... the Fist? The New Year is that time when...

What's Really Behind The Fight Over Dover? The media seem more interested in shocking us than in paying tribute to fallen soldiers like my son.(Column)
January 12, 2004... Byline: Ruth Voshell Stonesifer Upon hearing of the death of my soldier son, Army Ranger Kristofor Stonesifer, two years ago in a helicopter crash in Pakistan, the first thing I thought of was the Black Hawk crash in Mogadishu and the...

The Dean Dilemma: ALL THE RAGE: His blunt talk's propelled him to the top, but some Democrats worry that Dean's shoot-from-the-hip style and shifting views might doom him in November. The doctor's ills--and how his foes plan to exploit them.
January 12, 2004... Byline: Howard Fineman The murmurs of doubt are faint, barely audible above the background hum of the Internet cosmos, but they are worth listening to at the moment, for the doubters don't seem to be "trolls"--provocateurs in digital...

The Old-Fashioned Way: You can keep your 'Internet candidate.' At Ole Miss we still get excited about beauty queens, quarterbacks and Bush.
January 12, 2004... Byline: Laura Houston Howard Dean may be making headway on many college campuses, but here at the University of Mississippi he's not turning many heads. The national media paint Dean as the "Internet candidate"--a new kind of...

Hunting An 'Un-Dean': The General's New Stripes: He had a rough entry. But Wes Clark is a quick study. A rookie finds his stride.
January 12, 2004... Byline: Evan Thomas and Daniel Klaidman Gen. Wesley Clark has never quite learned how to behave like a politician. Before Christmas, he was asked at a town meeting in Derry, N.H., how he would respond if President Bush or Clark's own...

Interview: 'I'm Feeling Like Job': Dean on the heat of battle, Osama bin Laden--and Jesus.(presidential candidate Howard Dean)(Interview)
January 12, 2004... Byline: Howard Fineman It's rough at the top, or so insurgent turned front runner Howard Dean is finding out. Dean addressed the incoming fire, his latest thoughts on Osama bin Laden and his favorite Biblical passages in a conversation...

Fratricide Isn't Always Fatal: History affirms it: voters don't mind fight-night primaries as long as everyone in the party ultimately kisses and makes up.(Column)
January 12, 2004... Byline: Jonathan Alter It's almost a party tradition. Democrats gouge each other's eyeballs out in the winter and spring of election years, then spend summer and fall performing reconstructive surgery. Only once--in 1968--did these...

Newsmakers.
January 12, 2004... Byline: Allison Samuels and Marc Peyser, Jeff Giles Farther and Farther Off the Wall It's a shame this page doesn't bestow a Newsmaker of the Year award, because Michael Jackson deserves some kind of recognition for keeping our staff...

Perspectives.
January 12, 2004... "There is very, very little margin for error." Terrorism analyst Brian Jenkins, on why the United States canceled or delayed a string of international flights that raised suspicions "The issue surrounding the attorney general's recusal...

Intelligence: Who's Fueling the Rumors That Just Won't Die?(information leak)
January 12, 2004... Byline: Mark Hosenball Critics of Bush Administration policy in Iraq have chastised the Pentagon for relying too heavily on questionable prewar intelligence from exile groups, particularly the Iraqi National Congress, about weapons of mass...

Nukes: Leading 'a Quiet Life At First'.(Brief Article)
January 12, 2004... Byline: Dan Ephron Will Israel's nuclear whistle-blower, Mordechai Vanunu, be allowed to immigrate to the United States when his 18-year sentence is up in April? Vanunu, who told The Times of London about Israel's atomic arsenal in 1986...

Iranians: After the Quake, Signs of a Changing Reality.(Brief Article)
January 12, 2004... Byline: Maziar Bahari Iranian President Mohammed Khatami said last week that U.S. aid to earthquake victims in Bam would not alter relations between the two countries, which broke off ties a quarter century ago, and President George W....

File-Sharing: OK With Pay for Play.(Brief Article)
January 12, 2004... Byline: Brad Stone Lawsuits by the recording industry against consumers of pirated music seem to be having the desired effect. A new Pew Internet and American Life Project study shows that the percentage of American Internet users who...

Environment: Giant Carp Gone Wild.(Brief Article)
January 12, 2004... Marcy Poplett has a whopper of a fish tale. In the fall, the 35-year-old from Peoria, Ill., took her Jet Ski out on the Illinois River. As she cruised along, a 10-pound Asian carp jumped out of the water and hit her between the eyes. Poplett,...

Pete Rose: Will 'My Prison' Be His Get-Out-of-Jail Card?(Brief Article)
January 12, 2004... Byline: Mark Starr On Tuesday, baseball's Hall of Fame will reveal its 2004 electees--most likely a class of just two, Dennis Eckersley and Paul Molitor. But two days later the hall's most famous wanna-be, Pete Rose, will upstage the...

Between The Lines.
January 12, 2004... Byline: Susannah Meadows Dennis Kucinich would like you to know that in addition to opposing the war in Iraq, he is against using ghostwriters. Because he wrote "A Prayer For America" himself, he believes he's better than the six other...

Our Kids Will Pay the Bill: Everyone knows the retirement of the baby boomers will create crushing problems--but no one wants to do anything about them.(Column)
January 12, 2004... Byline: Robert J. Samuelson Just for the record, the congressional Budget Office recently issued a report telling us what everyone already knows: the federal budget is drifting into a future of unprecedented tax in-creases, huge deficits...

Mad Cow: What's Safe Now? They hoped it wouldn't happen here, then it did. Now U.S. officials are rewriting rules and assuring consumers that beef won't make them sick. Food safety's uncertain future.
January 12, 2004... Byline: Jerry Adler The recall notice from the Food Safety and Inspection Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture duly stated that it was "voluntary" (all recalls are), and that it was Class II, low health risk. To the USDA, recall...

Diet: Feeling Fishy About Fish: Is there a healthy, risk-free alternative to beef? Maybe and maybe not.
January 12, 2004... Byline: Mary Carmichael For healthy eaters, the choice between beef and fish can seem like a no-brainer--one is linked to heart disease, and the other is linked to its prevention. Over the last decade, the pro-fish chorus has only grown...

Is It Real, Or Is It Microsoft? Rob Glaser says his company is bound for glory. If his rival plays fair.(Real Networks)
January 12, 2004... Byline: Steven Levy The next ownership meeting of the Seattle Mariners could be an interesting one. Minority shareholder Rob Glaser will face several other part owners who have day jobs at his former employer, Microsoft. Though Glaser's...

Health: Cold Comfort Indeed.(common cold research)
January 12, 2004... Byline: Mary Carmichael All the flu going around in the past few months has eclipsed that usual winter complaint: the common cold. But sniffles and coughing have one problem the flu doesn't. While antivirals can quell multiple flu symptoms...

Arts: Student Performances.(Brief Article)
January 12, 2004... Byline: Raina Kelley If Broadway's $100-and-up ticket prices will blow a gaping hole in your family budget, how about checking out the stars of tomorrow? Many of the nation's top performing-arts programs offer relatively cheap (or, even...

Resolutions: you can do it. Really. (Click here for help.).(weight loss website)(Brief Article)
January 12, 2004... Byline: Linda Stern Remember all those big promises you made to yourself last week to kick off the new year, like quitting smoking and getting in shape? If you find yourself slipping a bit already, check out myGoals.com. Think of it as a...

Technology: Secret Hideaway.(Brief Article)
January 12, 2004... Byline: Joe Hutsko The clipdrive bio, from Memory Experts International, is the first memory key chain with a built-in sensor that scans fingerprints to decide whether a person is authorized to access its contents. Plug it into a USB port...

Road Test: Lamborghini Gallardo: Rocket's new glare.(Product/Service Evaluation)
January 12, 2004... Byline: Tara Weingarten It's hard to spin heads in Beverly Hills, land of flash and beauty. So imagine my surprise when scores of people did double-takes at my screaming yellow Gallardo as I cruised along Rodeo Drive. Even after they...

Ask Tip Sheet.(Brief Article)
January 12, 2004... Byline: Barney Gimbel When I mail a letter to a friend abroad, who does the postage actually go to? Sonji Fonseca, Bloomfield, Conn. True to form, nothing in this world is free. When you stick a letter in your mailbox, it's eventually...

Food: Orangey Blossom.(Brief Article)
January 12, 2004... Byline: Raina Kelley What's good about January? Wrong. The Super Bowl will be played Feb. 1. This is (drumroll, please) the only month when you can get honeybells. This cross between a grapefruit and a tangerine is a must-have to perk you...

Travel.
January 12, 2004... Byline: Jennifer Barrett Low fare no longer means low frill. The success of JetBlue, with its plush leather seats and DirecTV, has new players in the low-cost niche scrambling to offer more luxe for less (though Southwest Airlines sticks...

Fitness: No Pain, Some Gain: The New Workouts.
January 12, 2004... Byline: Lindsey Gerdes So after years of procrastination, you've finally done it. You've joined a gym. The only problem? You have to go. The folks over at gyms like Crunch Fitness have a solution: pretend you're not really there. Take...

Dining: Confidential Kitchen.
January 12, 2004... Byline: Tara Weingarten The worst table at a restaurant used to be the one right next to the kitchen. But now, many diners are booking months ahead for special tables that offer a ringside view of top chefs in action. Here are a few of our...

Money: A Bad Bet On Cards.(Brief Article)
January 12, 2004... Byline: Linda Stern The tempting sales keep coming, but you've already spent your holiday-gift budget. If you can't resist, at least resist those store-credit-card offers. The 10-percent-off deals sound good, but each card you get will...

In The News: Beware This Buzz.(ephedra)(Brief Article)
January 12, 2004... Byline: Barney Gimbel After the FDA announced last week it would ban ephedra, many retailers said people rushed in to stock up on the herbal stimulant as well as "ephedra-free" replacements. Best to avoid them altogether, though. Most of...

Happy Go Larry: Why isn't this man smiling? Larry David is happily married, filthy rich and the comic genius behind the funniest, most daring show on TV, 'Curb Your Enthusiasm.' Other than that, things couldn't be worse.
January 12, 2004... Byline: Devin Gordon He is going to hate this piece. He hasn't read a word of it yet, obviously, but his ambivalence is in the air somehow. For example, there was the time he said, "I'm going to hate this piece you're doing now." It was...

A Few of Larry's Favorite Things.
January 12, 2004... Talking to Larry David's friends and colleagues--and, frankly, to David himself--one gets the impression of a man who doesn't enjoy much of anything. According to David, that's "not entirely true," so NEWSWEEK asked him to come up with a few...

Conventional Wisdom: ON OUR I-YO-WAY EDITION.(Presidential candidates)(Brief Article)
January 12, 2004... Now that the tree has been dragged to the trash, it's time for the CW's favorite season: the presidential campaign. Let the blunders begin! C.W. Ridge + Phew. Orange joins green and red for the holidays and we manage...

Monumental Victory: After a controversial competition, a winning design finally emerges for the September 11 memorial site.
January 19, 2004... Byline: Cathleen McGuigan The memorial to the victims of 9/11 was supposed to be the centerpiece of the new World Trade Center. But Daniel Libeskind's master plan--and David Childs's Freedom Tower--made all the noise in the press, and the...

Martha's Makeover: As her day in court approaches, she's working overtime to show she's just like us. But the Feds aim to prove her slips in the ImClone stock scandal were criminal acts.
January 19, 2004... Byline: Keith Naughton and Barney Gimbel As Martha Stewart prepares to go on trial this month, she's carefully crafting a new, homespun image. Forget the high priestess of domesticity; she's now Martha From the Block. She took Barbara...

Mail Call: Television's Daily Dose of Political Humor.(Cover Story)(Correction Notice)
January 19, 2004... Many of our readers were tickled to see Jon Stewart, comedian-cum-host of the Emmy Award-winning "The Daily Show," featured on the cover of our Dec. 29/Jan. 5 year-end issue. Commenting on the political bent of the show, one said, "Stewart &...

Dukakis Plus 4.4 Percent? Dean can't win? Perhaps. But after a dreadful campaign, the Democrats' 1988 nominee still won 45.6 percent of the vote.
January 19, 2004... Byline: George F. Will Each morning, as republicans--bright- eyed after sleep made especially refreshing by dreams of defeating Howard Dean--shave or apply makeup, they should look into their mirrors and say to the images of complacency...

Going Beyond Atkins: There's no question that carbs can make you fat. But are bunless burgers the best alternative? Here's a healthier, and tastier, way to cut carbs.( )
January 19, 2004... Byline: Walter C. Willett, M.D., and Patrick J. Skerrett A middle-aged man, tired of being fat and having trouble losing weight, happens on a low-carbohydrate diet. He tries it for a few months and watches happily as the pounds slip away...

Medium Rare--And Hold the Prions!(Mad Cow disease.)(Brief Article)(Product/Service Evaluation)
January 19, 2004... Should Atkins fans worry about the recent discovery of mad-cow disease in a U.S. herd? They shouldn't ignore it completely. The prions (infectious proteins) responsible for mad cow can cause a fatal brain disease in people who eat infected...

Fueling for Performance.
January 19, 2004... Byline: Nancy Ferrari For all the bad press they receive, carbohydrates do serve a purpose: they provide ready energy in the form of blood glucose. When you're parked in front of a TV screen, it's easy to consume more energy than you burn....

A Simple Cure for Confusion: When it comes to nutrition, it's easy to overdose on information, a lot of which may be inaccurate. Experts from Harvard sort out a few issues.
January 19, 2004... Byline: Adapted from "The Benefits and Risks of Vitamins and Minerals: What You Need to Know," published by Harvard Medical School; "Eat, Drink and Be Healthy," by W. C. WILLETT, M.D., with P. J. SKERRETT, Simon & Schuster Source, 2001, and the...

Starve Your Way to Health: It works for mice and fruit flies, but can ultra-low-calorie diets extend the life of humans?
January 19, 2004... Byline: Jerry Adler and Anne Underwood If the world is divided into people who live to eat and those who eat to live, perhaps there ought to be a third category for Brian Delaney. At 5 feet 11 inches and 139 pounds, Delaney, 40, is really,...

Now, Reduce Your Risk of Alzheimer's: Intriguing new studies say the same measures that help your heart could also help prevent dementia.
January 19, 2004... Byline: Anne Underwood Just days into 2004, are you already struggling with those New Year's resolutions to eat right, exercise and shed excess pounds? Here's added incentive to stick with the program. It turns out that the healthy...

A New Generation Gap: 'Late life' parents face unique challenges as well as unexpected pleasures.
January 19, 2004... Byline: Peg Tyre Janet Ross-Toushin, 46, of Buffalo Grove, Ill., can listen to friends discuss their fear of the empty nest for only so long. It's not that she's unsympathetic, but sooner or later, one of Ross-Toushin's 2-month-old twin...

You Will Start to Feel Very Sleepy... ... And you should go to bed, because shortchanging your rest can hurt your health.
January 19, 2004... Byline: Robert A. Stickgold, PH.D.; John W. Winkelman, M.D., PH.D., and Peter Wehrwein We don't need a scientist or a study published in The New England Journal of Medicine to tell us that there's a price to be paid for losing sleep. You...

In a Race Against Time: The over-50 crowd works out and competes like never before. Smart ways to stay fit.
January 19, 2004... Byline: Peg Tyre Eight years ago Mary Jansen of Dallas decided that half a century of sedentary living was enough, and she began to train for a marathon. The day of the race, it took her more than six hours to chug across the finish line....

Mind and Moods: Accepting Life's Limits.
January 19, 2004... Byline: Michael C. Miller, M.D. A handsome couple had just finished a vigorous day of skiing when I caught up with them at the lodge. Faces lustrous, Don and Myrna Hoffman of Newton, Mass., confirmed what research shows: an active, healthy...

Refereeing in Hell: GIs are dying. Rival factions are turning on each other. After freeing Iraq, can we keep it from coming apart?(regional stability)
January 19, 2004... Byline: Babak Dehghanpisheh The explosion gouged a crater in the pavement three feet deep and three feet across. The bomb, rigged from a gas cylinder attached to a bicycle, detonated at 1:45 in the afternoon, just as worshipers were...

Bigger Than the Both of Them: In order to change fundamentally, a country needs to believe in a positive future. This is what is lacking in the Arab Middle East.
January 19, 2004... Byline: Fareed Zakaria Hostility between India and Pakistan has become one of those facts of geopolitical life one simply accepts, like the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. Except in South Asia there has been neither genuine...

Unringing the Bell: Inside Tom Ridge's tough call to lower the terror alert.
January 19, 2004... Byline: Mark Hosenball and Michael Hirsh To some officials, the intel was more alarming than the "chatter" in the months before 9/11. Since last summer, clues have accumulated that terrorists might hijack foreign planes headed for America...

The Editor's Desk.(Editorial)
January 19, 2004... Byline: Mark Whitaker We love getting reader mail here at NEWSWEEK: I try to look at all the correspondence that comes to me directly, and our Letters Department sends me a weekly report on all the rest. And while most of the mail we've...

If Looks Could Kill: A stunning performance as real-life serial killer Aileen Wuornos? Nobody expected it from Charlize Theron. The actress talks about making a 'Monster'.
January 19, 2004... Byline: Sean Smith Hard to believe, but beauty can be a burden in Hollywood. Sure, you can't be a movie star without it, but it can make you invisible, too. "The last three years I haven't been getting the kinds of jobs I really wanted,"...

A Poker Player's Guide To Beating Cancer: When I got sick, it was what I learned from the game that sustained me: it takes faith to trust the odds.
January 19, 2004... Byline: Nick Kurzon As a poker player, I've gotten familiar with the fluctuations of luck and the endurance of probability. That's why I like the game. I'm trying to make sense of those rival twins--luck and probability--because they are...

Pumping Up the Volume: THE TRAIL: The blog has its uses. But it's trench-warfare time now. Down and dirty with the Democrats as Iowa and New Hampshire loom.
January 19, 2004... Byline: Howard Fineman Sen. Tom Harkin of Iowa had been leaning toward endorsing Howard Dean since December. Facing opposition from his staff, labor-union allies and even his own wife, Ruth, he'd held off. But last week Harkin got a call...

Se Habla Electoral Votes: Bush's immigration plan looks like a smart ploy for Hispanic support. But the political landscape is trickier than it seems.
January 19, 2004... Byline: Arian Campo-Flores For Armando Gutierrez, a Democratic consultant on Latino issues, President George W. Bush's immigration proposal last week signaled the opening salvo in the battle for Hispanic votes. Uh-oh, he thought. The...

Who Cares About Iowa? In Iowa, the fate of the nation is supposedly on the line, but some little old lady with a clipboard must first calculate the last election's returns.
January 19, 2004... Byline: Jonathan Alter Let's bring the old Howard Dean back. The one who said the Iowa caucuses are "dominated by special interests" and make no sense for people who work and have kids. Dean imagined himself an ordinary Iowan forced to...

Why Bush is Over the Moon: The Dems are at war. The GOP base is with him. And his domestic agenda has crossover appeal. You'd be smiling, too.(Republican Party)
January 19, 2004... Byline: Tamara Lipper and Evan Thomas Karl Rove, President George W. Bush's chief political strategist, is known for hamming it up, whistling, humming and occasionally breaking into song. But he seemed especially jolly last week at a...

At Harvard, Skeptics Rule: For a brief moment on campus, Iraq stirred the students. But sadly, pessimism has regained its lead over passion here.
January 19, 2004... Byline: Beccah Golubock Watson As the Democratic presidential sweepstakes heats up, students at Harvard are greeting a parade of visiting candidates with polite smiles--and big yawns. To hear most of my classmates tell it, it doesn't much...

Newsmakers.
January 19, 2004... Byline: Marc Peyser and Sean Smith Carmen Electra The bride wore white. The groom wore black--nail polish. Welcome to the wedding of actress Carmen Electra and rocker Dave Navarro, or, as they're calling it on the MTV series, " 'Til...

Perspectives.
January 19, 2004... Byline: Quotation sources from top to bottom: New York Times (2), Sun, Drudge Report, Contra Costa Times, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, New York Post, Access Hollywood, Slate, New York Post, Houston Chronicle "I have not seen smoking-gun,...

1000 Words: They Gotta Wear Shades.(Photos of Mars)(Brief Article)
January 19, 2004... The Mars rover Spirit has eight plutonium-powered heaters, three spectrometers and a robotic arm that flexes like a human muscle as it scrapes away the planet's rocky surface. In short, it's so advanced that there's no way NASA's founders could...

September 11: Will Terror Panel's Report Be an Election Issue?(Column)
January 19, 2004... Byline: Michael Isikoff A new political battle is brewing over the federal panel investigating the 9/11 terror attacks, NEWSWEEK has learned. Facing a May deadline that many members no longer think they can meet, the panel is weighing...

Gun Control: 'Gored'? Not in '04.(Brief Article)
January 19, 2004... Byline: Debra Rosenberg In 2000, Al Gore proposed issuing federal licenses to gun owners. The idea didn't sit well in conservative Red States and, some say, it may have cost him the election. Now a new survey of presidential candidates...

Andrea Yates: 'I Have Finally Begun to Grieve'.(Brief Article)
January 19, 2004... Byline: Anne Belli Gesalman Nearly two years have passed since Andrea Yates was sentenced to life in prison for the drowning deaths of her five children. In Texas, the case has prompted mental-health reforms. A new book, " 'Are You There...

Dean: Better Call Your Lawyer.(Column)
January 19, 2004... Byline: Michael Isikoff When pressed on why he refuses to release a large chunk of his records as Vermont governor, Howard Dean has a standard response: he's being sued over the issue by a Washington watchdog group, so he's leaving the...

An Irrepressible Idea.(repressed memory research)(Brief Article)
January 19, 2004... Byline: Mary Carmichael Remember "repressed memory"? In the 1990s it dominated headlines so much that you may well have wanted to repress the whole phenomenon yourself. Courts became clogged with cases based on memories of abuse the...

Brazilians for the Boys. No, Seriously.(Brief Article)
January 19, 2004... Byline: Holly Peterson and Jenny Hontz As three Wall Street types left an Upper East Side salon in Manhattan last week, a beautician told a NEWSWEEK reporter: "It's not their backs I'm waxing. It's their b-lls." There is such a thing as...

Fast Chat: A Miracle Worker.(Brief Article)(Interview)
January 19, 2004... Byline: Elise Soukup Before Henry Grunwald became editor in chief of Time Inc., he stumbled upon the story of Nicole Tavernier, a 16th-century girl who was said to have performed miracles in France. Her story haunted him for years. Now...

Soaps: The Lives Of Reilly.
January 19, 2004... Byline: Daniel McGinn When James Reilly visited his grandfather's TV-free home in Ireland as a boy, every evening Granddad would ad-lib a two-hour story--always ending with a cliffhanger. "All the next day you'd be talking about it; you...

Las Vegas: Gone, Not Forgotten.(Brief Article)
January 19, 2004... Byline: Steve Friess What is sin City's most popular parlor game? Speculating on what will replace the Mirage's Siegfried & Roy spectacle: a vacant showroom on the Strip is like undeveloped waterfront property in Miami. After a grace...

Tourism: Getting 'Lost'.
January 19, 2004... Byline: Holly Bailey "Lost in Translation," Sofia Coppola's offbeat comedy starring Bill Murray as a Hollywood actor shooting a whisky ad in Japan, has earned rave reviews and generated plenty of Oscar buzz. Now the Park Hyatt Tokyo, where...

2004: Off to A Great Start: Every sector is now expanding at a rapid rate, the jobs picture is improving and the U.S. recovery is helping to pull the world along.
January 19, 2004... Byline: Jane Bryant Quinn Wow, what a year investors had. The misery of 12 months ago turned into bliss as the stock market flew. The roaring economy lifted every market index. Standard & Poor's 500-stock average, up 22 percent. S&P's 600...

Money: In Search of a Safer Bet.(secure investments)
January 19, 2004... Byline: Linda Stern Once upon a time, "mutual fund'' was a bland and comforting term--invest your money, watch it grow, no worries. A few scandals later, many investors are searching for a safer way to protect their nest eggs and are...

Online Teatime.
January 19, 2004... Byline: Raina Kelley Hot tea is cozy comfort during cold and flu season (and full of antioxidants). Here are some of our favorite sources: Le Palais des Thes More than 200 varieties, searchable by grade, vitamin-C content or...