Newsweek articles from July 2002

Newsweek archives from July 2002

Staring Across A Great Divide: The chasm between politicians and assistance recipients seems nearly unbridgeable. Has any member of Congress ever lived on a welfare check?(economics of welfare reform)(Brief Article)(Column)
July 1, 2002... Byline: Anna Quindlen In the 1970s the president of Haverford College became a totem for those who believed there was a schism between one America and another. John Coleman was a labor economist who took a sabbatical, not just to write a...

MoMA Cops Street Cred: A move to a stylishly gritty temp home is recasting its image.(Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, obtains temporary building to display works)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Byline: Cathleen McGuigan For the architect, the terms of the job were daunting: a tiny budget, an impossibly tight deadline--and a shelf life for the finished project no longer than a car warranty. But the client was the Museum of Modern...

The Insiders: The stock scandal involving Martha Stewart has pulled back the curtain on a world where the rich pass around business gossip the way the help passes out canapes.(Cover Story)
July 1, 2002... Byline: Marc Peyser It was two days after Christmas, and Martha Stewart--magazine editor, TV host, syndicated columnist and high priestess of domesticity--wanted to get away from it all. She was flying with two friends from Connecticut to...

Bad Boys Club: After a wave of scandals, corporate America is under pressure to clean up its act. But will anything really change?
July 1, 2002... Byline: Allan Sloan The stock market is tanking and the business world is soured by scandal, but there is some good news. We've got a new growth industry: reforming corporate America. More than a dozen proposals from big-name...

Special Cliffs Notes Edition.(observations on current events)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... CW U.S. soccer + Euro whine: Old: Yanks can't play our sublime game. New: How dare these bullies stand toe-to-toe with us? France - ...

Mail Call: The Global Garage Sale: Going, Going...
July 1, 2002... We heard from many eBay aficionados posting their "feedback" about our June 17 cover. "Your piece got the company and the community just right," one wrote. "Loved the story on eBay, my source for the more esoteric items I need. It truly is the...

Code Blue in Jerusalem: A 'white butterfly' is a bad sign, and calm eyes can mean a victim is 'burning inside.' At an Israeli trauma center, doctors have learned lessons they never could have imagined.(treating victims of suicide bombings)
July 1, 2002... Byline: Joshua Hammer The 22-year-old woman with the mane of flowing brown hair was the first victim to arrive at the hospital, and Dr. Avi Rivkind could tell within seconds that her condition was grave. Minutes earlier, a Palestinian...

Path of Most Resistance: Palestinian fighters say they're ready if Israel invades Gaza.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Byline: Joshua Hammer On the outskirts of Gaza's Jabalia refugee camp, in the darkness of an Israeli-imposed blackout, a dozen masked Palestinians are waiting for trouble. One brandishes a cluster of grenades, another a rocket tube with a...

Voices From a Hot Zone.(relations between India and Pakistan; India's prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Pakistan's leader, Pervez Musharraf)
July 1, 2002... Byline: Lally Weymouth India and Pakistan recently scared much of the world into thinking that all-out war, perhaps with nuclear weapons, might break out between them. How close were they? How close are they still? NEWSWEEK's Lally...

The Editor's Desk: This week's cover story looks at how the Martha Stewart episode becomes another chapter in the ongoing fall from grace of corporate America, while.
July 1, 2002... Byline: -Mark Whitaker I like Martha Stewart. When I first became editor, I called her office to ask if she'd pose for a cover about online shopping. She called me back immediately, and was very cooperative. I've sat next to her at dinner...

Angela's Fire: Ten years ago, Angela Bassett was Hollywood's premier black actress. What happened? The 'Sunshine State' star talks frankly about race, sex, age and Hollywood.(Brief Article)(Interview)
July 1, 2002... Byline: Allison Samuels Angela Bassett has a flair for the dramatic. Two hours into a long, frank interview at a Beverly Hills lounge, the actress is asked why, after not starring in a movie for four years, she turned down a chance for the...

Murder on the Spielberg Express: A fleet, darkly thrilling jolt of future shock.('Minority Report')
July 1, 2002... Byline: David Ansen Steven Spielberg's "Minority Report" doesn't look or feel like anything he's done before, yet no one but Spielberg could have made it. Ferociously intense, furiously kinetic, it's expressionist film noir science fiction...

Watching for Smoke And Rooting for Rain: Night after night, my husband fights the fires that rage around us. I've seen too much to sleep.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Byline: Melanie Boock It was 2 o'clock in the morning, and I couldn't sleep. My husband, Jeff, a Colorado firefighter, was snoring, along with the two 100-pound dogs that shared our bed. In three hours he would leave for another 24-hour...

A Moth to The Flame: She was an 18-year Forest Service veteran who loved her job. So what in the world made Terry Barton light the worst fire in Colorado history?
July 1, 2002... Byline: Dirk Johnson and Andrew Murr Terry Barton told friends she wasn't going to take it anymore. She wanted a divorce. Her estranged husband, John, was a bad drinker, a man with a mean streak and a checkered work history. She wanted him...

Holding On to Hope: Police grill a drifter for clues in a vexing kidnap case.(Bret Michael Edmunds questioned in kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Byline: Kevin Peraino The gumshoes in Salt Lake City were growing impatient. Almost three weeks after Elizabeth Smart was snatched from her bedroom at gunpoint, police had sifted thousands of leads but still didn't have a suspect. The...

'The Body': So September 10th: Jesse's act is suddenly very old. We've learned that wrestlers can govern-until government has to wrestle with something truly important.(Minnesota governor Jesse Ventura)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Byline: Jonathan Alter In early 1999 I was assigned maybe the easiest political story of the era--a profile of Gov. Jesse (The Body) Ventura. It was all color, all the time, from his feud with Garrison Keillor to his claim that St. Paul's...

The Politics of Greed: As the business world churns, the Democrats ponder how to make Wall Street's moral chaos pay at the polls.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Byline: Howard Fineman If you are a Democrat running for president, you want an audience with the Jedi of Harlem. Gov. Howard Dean of Vermont had his recently, at Bill Clinton's spacious offices on 125th Street. Dean told him that the...

Mental Powers: The Latest Death-Penalty War: Can criminals exploit the new Supreme Court ruling?(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... When the Supreme Court ruled last week that states can no longer execute the mentally retarded, opponents predicted a rash of appeals. Would death-row inmates try to game the system by flunking IQ tests? "They're one of the easiest things to...

Newsmakers: 1: Britney Spears's ranking in a Forbes list of the world's most powerful celebrities. Tiger Woods is No. 2.(Ted Turner; Aerosmith; Mike Myers)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... The Foot in the Mouth of the South CNN founder Ted Turner, notorious for putting his foot in his mouth, gave a big boost to the network's archrival, the Fox News Channel, last week when he equated Israel's military activities with...

Perspectives.(quotations about current events)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Byline: Quotation sources from top to bottom: New York Times, New York Post, New York Times, The Washington Post, New York Times, Roll Call, Reuters, New York Daily News, New York Times "I look at the sky. I look at the people." ...

The Hijackers' Presence Still Haunts Hamburg: Strained relations between American and German law-enforcement and intelligence agencies hamper tracking terrorists within the country.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Byline: Mark Hosenball Nearly a year after September 11, German authorities say that key members of the hijack team based in Hamburg seem to have lived normal, secular lives--until they fell under a radical Islamist "influence" around...

This Time, We Have A Winner: George W. Bush on the run.(President's exercise habits)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Byline: -Martha Brant George W. Bush isn't known as a details guy, but when it comes to exercise he's a micromanager. For the presidential fitness challenge last weekend, Bush not only chose the course for the three-mile run at Fort McNair...

2004 (YES, 2004): Campaign fundraising goes into high (society) gear.(planning for 2004 presidential election)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Byline: -Howard Fineman Every presidential election produces a new form of arcane competition. Gearing up for the 2004 race, Democrats have already invented one: dueling fat-cat retreats. Next weekend, former vice president Al Gore and...

Probing or Protecting? The FBI and CIA under scrutiny.(questions over how tough Thomas A. Kelley will be in probe of 9/11)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Byline: -Michael Isikoff How tough will the House-Senate intelligence panel investigating the 9-11 attacks be on the FBI and CIA? Questions are being raised about Thomas A. Kelley, a former FBI deputy general counsel who is overseeing the...

Writers: Talented, Like Totally: Seventeen-year-old author is no Salinger, and he agrees.(Nick McDonell, author of 'Twelve')(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Byline: Malcolm Jones Fifty years ago it took a talented adult novelist to capture the wayward voice of a generation in "The Catcher in the Rye." These days, kids just do it themselves. Or at least one kid has. Nick McDonell was 17 when he...

Science: Free--And in English! A Napster for nerds is on the horizon.(plans for Public Library of Science)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Byline: -Mary Carmichael No wonder so many people feel alienated by science: all the journals use $5 words. Literally. Often inscrutable, most are also high-priced. One, the Journal of Virological Methods, goes for $3,157 annually. That's...

Health: The First Cut Is the Deepest: Funding for circumcisions in jeopardy.(some state governments terminating public funding)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Byline: -CATHARINE SKIPP As state governments look to cut their budgets, the necessity of one ancient procedure has been increasingly called into question. Seven states have terminated public funding for circumcisions, and last week the...

Kids: You're Not A Little Teapot! Children's music gets hip.(new children's music from rock singers)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Byline: Karen Springen I love you. You love me." Barney meant well but, really, how long could parents possibly put up with that gibber jabber? His days may be numbered, thanks to a spate of hip rockers, most with kids of their own, who...

The Media's Heavy Hand.(how mass media influences economy)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Byline: Robert J. Samuelson In his classic book "Manias, Panics, and Crashes," the economic historian Charles P. Kindleberger divides all financial manias into three rough phases. In the first, people discover the world has improved in...

The Group: A new generation of women is running some of the country's most important universities.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Byline: Barbara Kantrowitz and Pat Wingert Princeton University's meticulously cultivated campus oozes tradition--from the annual P-rade (in which generations of alumni march around in the sacred orange and black) to the school's unofficial...

'Macho' or 'Sweetness'? A new Harvard study shows that immigrant boys and girls fare very differently in the outside world.(immigrant girls outperform boys)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Byline: Arian Campo-Flores When it comes to schooling, the Herrera boys are no match for the Herrera girls. Last week, four years after she arrived from Honduras, Martha, 20, graduated from Fairfax High School in Los Angeles. She managed...

The Rise of the Jumbo Babies: Doctors nationwide see more and more infants and toddlers tipping the scales.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
July 1, 2002... Byline: --Julie Scelfo and Margaret Williams When President George W. Bush declared last week that better health is an important goal for Americans, he made a point of targeting children and adolescents. But pediatricians say it's the...

The Big Secret: An exclusive first look at Microsoft's ambitious-and risky-plan to remake the personal computer to ensure security, privacy and intellectual property rights. Will you buy it?
July 1, 2002... Byline: Steven Levy In ancient Troy stood the Palladium, a statue of the goddess Athena. Legend has it that the safety of the city depended on that icon's preservation. Later the term came to mean a more generic safeguard. Here's...

Credit: The Real Score.(understanding personal credit ratings)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Byline: Daniel McGinn To measure intellect, Americans use IQ and SAT scores. For health, we use cholesterol tests and the body-mass index. And when it comes to finances, we're judged by our credit scores. For years consumers have been able...

Real Estate: Gimme More Shelter: What you need to know when buying a second home.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Byline: -Linda Stern Forget the floaties. This year's vacationers aren't swimming, they're shopping for property. The second-home market is as frothy as a breaking wave, stirred up by cheap mortgages, a lackluster stock market and a...

Road Test: Backroads Bully: NEWSWEEK takes the HUMMER H2 for a spin--or more likely, a dive.(Brief Article)(Evaluation)
July 1, 2002... Byline: -Keith Naughton I'm aiming the hulking new Hummer H2 SUV straight into a yawning hole in the earth. As I go vertical, I see only mud through the windshield. I'm certain I'm about to be planted six feet under this ridiculous...

Health: The Mystery Of Lupus: Promising new drugs for the complex disease are expected within five years.(African American women at greatest risk)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Byline: -Dr. Ian smith Many people have heard of lupus, but nobody truly understands it. Nearly 1.4 million Americans have the chronic inflammatory disease, which causes the immune system to attack the heart, kidneys and other organs. And...

Wine: Uncorked / Zinfandel: Unlike Chardonnay or Cabernet, Zinfandel is an American original--perfect for Fourth of July parties.(Brief Article)(Buyers Guide)
July 1, 2002... Byline: Wine Spectator rates wines on the 100-point scale; all wines are blind-tasted. Prices are those suggested by producers or importers. Fore more information visit winespectator.com Unlike Chardonnay or Cabernet, zinfandel is an...

Ask Tip Sheet: Commercial-free radio systems.(choosing between XM and Sirius)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Byline: Adam Rogers Of the two major satellite-radio systems, Sirius and XM, which is best for an ad-free environment? -Eugene Barnes, Dunn Loring, Va. If commercials make you insane, get Sirius. Its 60 music channels are all ad-free,...

Food: Who's On Wurst? Milwaukee's Miller Park mythic sandwich is a must-have, and not just for baseball fans.(where to buy bratwurst that mimics baseball park favorite)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Byline: -BRET BEGUN With the Milwaukee Brewers in last place, there's no joy in Millerville. Unless, of course, you're there to sample a hometown bratwurst, or two. Miller Park's mythic sandwich is not to be missed. Tom Olson, who's in...

Travel: Burning Question: Be prepared for camping conditions in the West.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Byline: -Katherine Stroup Will wildfires send your vacation plans up in smoke? Fires are raging all across the West, including major, uncontained blazes in Colorado's Rio Grande and Pike national forests, New Mexico's Santa Fe forest and...

Books: He's Still 'Some Pig': Charlotte's Web" on CD, read by E.B. White himself.
July 1, 2002... Byline: -Pat Wingert "Charlotte's Web," the classic tale of Wilbur, a runt piglet, and the arachnid friend who saves him from slaughter, has been enchanting children and vegetarians for 50 years. Now, just in time for summer car vacations,...

Museums: Field Trips: Once Jell-O got a museum, we knew the floodgates were open. A slew of small galleries are opening in the next few months, each with a very small, but very cool, niche.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Byline: -Julie Murdock International Spy Museum WASHINGTON, D.C. Sick of summer spy flicks? Check out the tools used in real live espionage--like the "kiss of death" lipstick pistol. 1 (202) EYE SPY U Charles M. Schulz Museum...

Transition: Ann Landers, Jack Buck.(deaths of advice columnist and sportscaster)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Byline: Malcolm Beith ANN LANDERS, 83 When Esther (Eppie) Lederer, nee Friedman, began her career as advice columnist Ann Landers for the Chicago Sun-Times in 1955, the letter was our primary form of communication. Most Americans...

Correction.
July 1, 2002... Correction In the June 17 graphic "May 29, 2002: 24 Hours on eBay," we should have said that Longaberger baskets are made of hardwood maple.

And Now, Your Fiscally Questionable All-Stars!(baseball players)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2002... Byline: Bret Begun Baseball's owners love to complain about exorbitant salaries. But it's not as if they're making the best use of the money they've got. You'd think owners would shy away from being overly generous--but you'd be wrong....

What Andy Saw: Warhol wasn't just the godfather of pop. He was a clairvoyant whose ideas on celebrity, cinema and even supersizing made him the most influential artist since Picasso.(Critical Essay)
July 8, 2002... Byline: Peter Plagens Great artists make the familiar seem astonishing. Really great artists turn around and make the astonishing seem familiar again. In the big, 250-work retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles (up...

WorldCom's Wrong Numbers: A simple math trick may end up dwarfing the Enron scandal, and the fallout is only beginning to spread.(company sued by SEC for accounting fraud)(Statistical Data Included)
July 8, 2002... Byline: Allan Sloan Two of America's favorite financial fantasies came to an end last week. "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire," once the hottest show on television because it let us all dream about becoming rich overnight, went off the air...

More 'Ridiculousness': As if questions about insider trading weren't enough, now Martha Stewart faces inquiries about a cover-up.(questions over ImClone stock trade)(Brief Article)
July 8, 2002... Byline: Keith Naughton Wielding a big knife and a look of determination, Martha Stewart kept her head down while chopping cabbage on CBS's "The Early Show" last week. But even in her weekly cooking segment, Martha couldn't escape the...

Holiday Jitters Edition.
July 8, 2002... CONVENTIONAL WISDOM Holiday Jitters Edition With July 4 falling on a Thursday this year, some will get no long weekend while others will get four days off. Isn't that unconstitutional? C.W. Bush ...

Mail Call: Hope for a Healthier Future.
July 8, 2002... Promising Strides in Technology and Medicine Our June 24 Special Report, "Fixing Your Brain," prompted many readers to hail the merits of new medical technology. One thanked us for making "all the galloping information and advances in medicine...

Lighting Up Our Lives: Cheat Sheet.
July 8, 2002... Byline: Adam Rogers Producers of the big fireworks extravaganzas say they're doing more shows than ever this July 4 week. Here's what you'll see in the skies: (Graphic omitted)

One Nation Under Judges: Do judges have too much power?(Brief Article)
July 8, 2002... Byline: George F. Will Last week was replete with reminders that there was something to be said for the Ninth Circuit Court's ruling that there is something wrong with the Pledge of Allegiance's assertion that this is "one nation under...

A House of Cards.(WorldCom chief financial officer fired)(Brief Article)
July 8, 2002... Former WorldCom chief financial officer Scott Sullivan was one of 17,000 of the telecom giant's employees to lose his job last week. Suffice it to say that most other recently unemployed staffers won't be enjoying their forced downtime at digs...

Guantanamo Justice? Behind the Wires: Nobody in the detention center on the coast of Cuba has access to a lawyer. The Geneva Conventions don't apply. Nor does the U.S. Constitution. So what happens if someone is stuck there by mistake?(detainees in the war on terror)
July 8, 2002... Byline: Roy Gutman, Christopher Dickey and Sami Yousafzai Deep in the treacherous mountains along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, villagers remember the five Kuwaitis who showed up on Dec. 16. The men were hardly the first Arabs to come...

Mr. Nowhere Man: Bush calls for Arafat's ouster--and gives him a needed boost.(many Palestinian people see Bush's actions as reason to support Arafat)(Brief Article)
July 8, 2002... Byline: Joshua Hammer Abbas Zaki once considered himself a true believer in Yasir Arafat. As a charter member of Arafat's Fatah movement, Zaki, 60, carried out bloody raids inside Israel from guerrilla bases in Jordan after the Six Day...

The Editor's Note: We devote our cover story this week to examining how our unique concept of freedom is holding up after September 11.
July 8, 2002... Byline: Mark Whitaker A trip to London last week has reminded me, yet again, of how unique America is. When I went to graduate school in Britain in the late '70s, it was a society stultified by class divisions and prejudices. After a...

Slime at Its Prime: Review:'Men in Black II'.
July 8, 2002... Byline: David Ansen It's taken five years to make the deal to make the movie to follow up on the surprise success of "Men in Black," and the biggest obstacle the "MIB" team faces is that the surprise is gone. You know what you're gonna get...

You Can Call Me the Silver-Tongued Frog: Tired of being teased, I got involved, got some confidence and earned a nickname I'm proud of.(high school student joins debate team)(Brief Article)
July 8, 2002... Byline: Jason Shen I can't remember the first time the bullies called me Kermit. Or Froggy. Or Toad. It has become such an integral part of me that I can't imagine myself without the nicknames. It's not easy being ugly. OK, not ugly....

Freedom vs. Security: Delicate balance: The case for 'smart profiling' as a weapon in the war on terror.
July 8, 2002... Byline: Fareed Zakaria I will always remember July 4, 2001, because a week earlier I became an American citizen. It was a different America one year ago. The country was bathed in peace and plenty, calmly contemplating a mild recession and...

The Plot Thickens: The Elizabeth Smart case heats up as police probe a handyman with a rap sheet and ties to the family.(potential suspect in kidnapping case)(Brief Article)
July 8, 2002... Byline: Kevin Peraino The two neighborhoods couldn't be more different. Almost four weeks after 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart was kidnapped from her home in the wealthy foothills of Salt Lake City, the spotlight had shifted across town to a...

Praying For Rain: The hot zone spread to Arizona--where firefighters struggled to control an inferno, families clung to hope and the Feds pondered what went wrong.(wildfires)(Brief Article)
July 8, 2002... Byline: Randy Collier and T. Trent Gegax To see what was left of her Arizona hometown, Cher Hazen boarded a Red Cross bus that rolled into tiny Palmdale. As she peered through a window, Hazen looked upon a nightmare of ash. On the spot...

One Nation, Under... Who? Flying the Flag: On the eve of the Fourth, a ruling barring 'under God' from the pledge ignites a furor--and reminds us what freedom's about.(U.S. Pledge of Allegiance)
July 8, 2002... Byline: Howard Fineman Telecoms are dying, consumers are wary and no one buys the corporate books. The deficit is exploding, the Middle East is a shambles and Al Qaeda still lives. But the U.S. Senate had more urgent business last...

Holding Courts In Contempt: To stop Bush from robbing them of power, especially in the war on terror, judges need to win public support. The Pledge wasn't a good start.(federal court's decision about Pledge of Allegiance)(Brief Article)
July 8, 2002... Byline: Stuart Taylor Jr. The federal court decision declaring the "under God" phrase in the Pledge of Allegiance unconstitutional caused an uproar. But it may also provide a window into a larger contempt for the judiciary that seems to be...

Newsmakers.(Rosie O'Donnell fires magazine editor, Bert and Ernie on Kermit's Hollywood star)(Brief Article)
July 8, 2002... Byline: Peg Tyre Rosie, O! The Queen Of Nice Gets Mean After signing off on her talk show on May 22, Rosie O'Donnell seems hellbent on banishing her title as the Queen of Nice. She just delivered a scathing stand-up comedy performance...

Perspectives.(quotes from the news)(Brief Article)
July 8, 2002... "No water, and it hurts." Johnny Endfield, vice chairman of the White Mountain Apache, on the battle against the Chediski fire in Arizona, which has ravaged his tribe's reservation "My heart was bumping." Nikoloz Tskitishvili, seven-foot...

Exclusive: Osama bin Laden and the Mystery of the Skull: Tora Bora samples examined by renowned forensic sleuth, but why?(samples taken from graves being investigated)(Brief Article)
July 8, 2002... Byline: John Barry Does the United States have the skull of one of Osama bin Laden's lieutenants, or even bin Laden himself? If not, why the mystery about what we have found? In early May, Canadian troops came across a grave site at the...

G8 Bear It: Grizzly regrets visit to temporary military camp.(Group of 8 meeting in the Canadian wilderness)(Brief Article)
July 8, 2002... Byline: Martha Brant The Royal Canadian Mounted Police called it Operation Grizzly. Their mission: protect the G8 summit from terrorists, protesters and, it turned out, bears. The summit was held in the remote Kananaskis Valley....

Tourism: The Little Red Ed Dept. A temporary fix proves popular with D.C. visitors.(old-fashioned 'schoolhouses' constructed at the Department of Education, during remodeling)(Brief Article)
July 8, 2002... Byline: Pat Wingert The U.S. Department of Education's headquarters in the southwest corner of downtown Washington, D.C., has never exactly been a tourist magnet. It's the same kind of anonymous seven-floor concrete box that houses most...

Power: 'President' Cheney? Bush transferred the constitutional powers and duties of the presidency during his colonoscopy.(Vice President Dick Cheney became acting president during a medical examination)(Brief Article)
July 8, 2002... Byline: Tamara Lipper President George W. Bush once joked about his vice president, "Dick's doing a good job because he's told me he doesn't want to be president." Cheney's limited ambition is a lucky thing--because even when Bush...

Surveys: Pam! It's Too Cold! Results say Americans crave more spontaneity in their lives.(what results of various surveys reveal about Americans)(Brief Article)
July 8, 2002... Byline: Bret Begun PERI assures you that (unlike the respondents below) we do not have inaccurate employment records, we only use our laptops fully clothed and we do not need any help with our grilling. We do, however, crave more...

Products: It's the Hair Apparent: Breck shampoo is back, smelling as good as always.(Brief Article)
July 8, 2002... Byline: Susannah Meadows Before doctor Barbie came along, complicating a girl's dreams with all that choice, fulfillment used to be so easy. There was only one thing a girl knew she wanted to be when she grew up: a Breck Girl. And all she...

Fast Chat: Softball Questions: A discussion with author Bill Scheft.(Brief Article)
July 8, 2002... Bill Scheft has written monologues for "Late Show With David Letterman" for more than a decade. His debut novel, "The Ringer," about a "professional" softball player, comes out this week from HarperCollins. He talked to Asher Hawkins. Talk...

Dogs: I'm a 'Labradoodle' Dandy: The appeal of mix-and-match pups.(Brief Article)
July 8, 2002... Byline: -ALEX RUBIN Dogs, of course, are man's best friend. And how have we repaid our good buddies? By manipulating whom they mate with so that their offspring better suit our needs. Labradors, for example, are an affable bunch. Poodles...

Books: American Psyche: Finding Patriotic Spirit in the bookstore.(books that may inspire patriotism)(Brief Article)(Bibliography)
July 8, 2002... Byline: Suzanne Smalley Who knew that Teddy Roosevelt called Taft a "flub-dub with a streak of the second-rate and the common in him"? Or that there's a clearly marked urinal in Salem, Ore., noting that JFK was once a patron? Or that...

Design: Let's Do the Time Warp: TVs need not be a dull gray box.(Telstar Electronics designs television sets to individual taste)(Brief Article)
July 8, 2002... Byline: Devin Gordon TV sets are an easy thing to evaluate. The better the picture, the better the TV--simple. That's why those plasma-screen thingies are considered the very best. Turn one on, and you can see the dimples on Tiger's golf...

No, You're Not to Blame: How to invest with less risk.(Brief Article)
July 8, 2002... Byline: Jane Bryant Quinn I'm impatient with critics who blame small investors for being "too greedy" during the bubble, as if you deserved the drubbing you took. There are some things the average American can't be expected to...

Breeding Grounds: As the AIDS conference opens in Spain, scientists are finding new, potentially dangerous viruses in the monkeys of central Africa.(Brief Article)
July 8, 2002... Byline: Geoffrey Cowley How does a hurricane reach the Caribbean? If you could trace a storm all the way back to its genesis, maybe you'd find a butterfly fanning its wings in West Africa, causing a momentary disturbance that sends...

Traveling Sharks: There's more to the seashore than sand, sun and surf--there's science all around you. Here are six puzzles to ponder.(Brief Article)
July 8, 2002... Byline: Fred Guterl The huge shark in "Jaws" liked to hang around Martha's Vineyard. But it turns out that great whites prefer to roam. Marine biologist Peter Pyle attached electronic tags to four great whites off the coast of northern...

Travel: Carnival Knowledge: New book reduces the art of winning games to a science.('The Secrets of Amusement Park Games...Revealed!')
July 8, 2002... Byline: Asher Hawkins As everyone knows, the goal in carnival games isn't winning, but winning before you shell out more cash than the stuffed animal is worth. So, just in time for summer, comes the delightful mini-book The Secrets of...

Kids, Are We Having Fun Yet? How to make sure your family vacation is enjoyable.(Brief Article)
July 8, 2002... Byline: -KATHERINE STROUP We don't need a "National Lampoon" marathon to know family vacations can be rough. But pack three generations into a beach bungalow, and the results can be cataclysmic. Grandparents nag and smother. Grown children...

Affair Of The Sole: When you just can't give up your favorite pair of sneakers.(Brief Article)
July 8, 2002... Byline: -JOSEPH CONTRERAS I bought my first pair of PRO-Keds after I went off to college in 1975, and I've loved them ever since. Stride Rite junked the brand in 1985, but I kept my feet in Royal Hi-Cuts by scouring discount stores and...

Gadgets: Fake Bake, Safe Tan: A solution to the sun-streaking self-tanners.(Brief Article)
July 8, 2002... Byline: Katherine Stroup The pale and pasty masses rejoice! Without exposure to any harmful rays, UV-Free Instant Tans--they actually take about 10 minutes--give you a deep tan that lasts a week (about $25 at Hollywood Tans, hollywood...

Books: Best Beach Reads: Summer reading lists always seem to focus on hardcovers--but who wants to lug them to the beach? Instead, we suggest paperbacks, a few can't-fail classics and, OK, a couple of new hardcovers.(Brief Article)
July 8, 2002... Byline: Malcolm Jones Summer reading lists always seem to focus on hardcovers--but who wants to lug McCullough on John Adams to the beach? Instead, we suggest paperbacks, a few can't-fail classics and, OK, a couple of new hardcovers....