Newsweek articles from June 2007

Newsweek archives from June 2007

I Had a Home in Africa; 'When a Crocodile Eats the Sun' is a haunting memoir of Zimbabwe, and a lesson for the rest of us.(Book review)
June 4, 2007... Byline: Arlene Getz The wall around the Harare cemetery is gone. Corn grows among the graves. From the soiled clumps of paper and the fetid smell, it's clear the burial ground in Zimbabwe is being used as an open-air toilet. The garden of...

Aflac Ducks a Punch Over Executive Pay.
June 4, 2007... Byline: Allan Sloan When the public face of your company is a duck, you can't afford to foul up your reputation. (Yes, you can groan now.) Take Aflac Insurance, best known for its ubiquitous quacking commercials. Something funny happened...

Betas Rule; What do Jim from 'The Office,' Shrek and Al Gore have in common? They're beta males--losers who are winning. Look out, alpha dogs.(Movie review)
June 4, 2007... Byline: Jennie Yabroff Ben stone isn't what you'd call a player. He lives with four buddies in a squalid slacker palace. He's chubby, furry and happily unemployed, unless you count a scheme to launch a Web site charting every female nude...

Mail Call: A New Look at Gender Identity.(Letter to the editor)
June 4, 2007... Transgender readers were pleased to see our May 21 cover on the mystery of gender. "Thank you for showing the world that we are not freaks and weirdos," said one. A post-op transsexual woman added, "Gender is so much more than the public...

The Editor's Desk.
June 4, 2007... Byline: Jon Meacham Long ago, Mary Carmichael, the author of both this week's cover story on pain and a long piece on the global water crisis, wanted to be a doctor. Medicine's loss was journalism's gain, but at a price: some sea urchins...

Troubled Waters; Drought, pollution, mismanagement and politics have made water a precious commodity in much of the world.
June 4, 2007... Byline: Mary Carmichael (With Sarah Schafer in Beijing and Sudip Mazumdar in New Delhi) Daily life in the developed world has depended so much, for so long, on clean water that it is sometimes easy to forget how precious a commodity water...

Rivers of Doubt; Minute quantities of everyday contaminants in our drinking supply could add up to big trouble.(Geographic overview)
June 4, 2007... Byline: Anne Underwood U.S.A. Population: 300 million Problem: Emerging contaminants Up to his knees: Schoenfuss captures fish for study in the Grindstone River near Hinckley, Minn., looking for chemicals that mimic...

Get Out Your Handkerchiefs.
June 4, 2007... Byline: Sharon Begley When Lewis Ziska wanted to see how a warmer world with more carbon dioxide in the air would affect certain plants, he didn't set up his experiment in a greenhouse or boot up a computer model. He headed for Baltimore....

Out of What 'Shadows'?(illegal immigrants)
June 4, 2007... Byline: George F. Will Who knew? The nation's fastest-growing metropolitan area is in Southern Utah. The continuing growth of this area is, however, contingent on something that is contingent on Congress. This region around the town of St....

The Changing Science of Pain; Millions of aging boomers and the latest generation of wounded soldiers hope the secrets of our most enduring medical foe can finally be unlocked.(Cover story)
June 4, 2007... ***** CORRECTION: Clarification: Our story, "The Changing Science of Pain" referred to "a new form of the morphine derivative called Kadian." The new drug, called ALO-01, contains the same active indredient as Kadian but delivers the...

Gathering the Tribes; U.S. field commanders are finally beginning to tap the traditional networks that helped Saddam to stay in power.
June 4, 2007... Byline: Melinda Liu (With Larry Kaplow and Babak Dehghanpisheh in Baghdad and John Barry in Washington) Pungent smoke floats through the chandeliers of the tribal chief's reception room. At his home in Ramadi, capital of Anbar province and...

A Holy City Loses Faith; Forty years later, the myth of Jerusalem is splintering.
June 4, 2007... Byline: Kevin Peraino (With Joanna Chen and Nuha Musleh in Jerusalem) Moshe Amirav was dreaming about Jerusalem on the morning that he ended up with a bullet in his head. It was June 7, 1967, the climactic offensive of the Six Day War, and...

Movie Overboard! The third installment of 'Pirates' stinks, and sinks.("Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End")(Movie review)
June 4, 2007... Byline: David Ansen I knew I was in for a long night when Johnny Depp finally makes his appearance in the third--and let us pray final--installment of "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End." Depp, as Jack Sparrow, is residing in Davy...

Birth of an Insemination; And baby makes glee in the charming comedy 'Knocked Up.'.(Movie review)
June 4, 2007... Byline: David Ansen What "the 40-year-Old Virgin" suggested, "Knocked Up" confirms. Judd Apatow is making the freshest, most honest mainstream comedies in Hollywood. The writer-director has managed to synthesize the neurotic, outsider...

Scheduling Adulthood One Page at a Time; I thought getting a day planner would mean my carefree youth was over. Now I just miss less of it.
June 4, 2007... Byline: Kate Torgovnick (Torgovnick lives in New York, N.Y.) My first day planner was a college-graduation present from a well-intentioned relative. I'd untied the ribbon on the small box hoping for an iPod, so I was puzzled when I saw a...

In Search of a Political Savior; Evangelicals aren't flocking to the GOP front runners, and don't know where to turn.
June 4, 2007... Byline: Eve Conant (With Jonathan Darman) They'd come to pay their respects to the past, but the talk soon turned to the future. The country's leading conservative Christians convened in Lynchburg, Va., last week to bury the Rev. Jerry...

Running Hard By Staying Out.
June 4, 2007... Byline: Howard Fineman If you want to send a message in Washington, issue a press release--or go to the Palm. It's a restaurant where the jocular masks the manipulative: a stock exchange of politics, with bigger portions. It was perfect...

Bush's Monica Problem; Gonzales, the president's lawyer and Texas buddy, is twisting slowly in the wind, facing a vote of no confidence from the Senate.(George W. Bush)(Monica Goodling)(Alberto Gonzales)
June 4, 2007... Byline: Michael Isikoff and Evan Thomas The United States Department of Justice has not always been above politics. John F. Kennedy, after all, appointed his brother and consigliere Robert to be attorney general. But the Justice Department...

Newsmakers.(Natalie Portman)(Interview)
June 4, 2007... Q&A: Natalie Portman The actress has four movies out later this year--and she's going to Uganda for FINCA, a nonprofit that provides loans to low-income entrepreneurs in other countries. She spoke to Ramin Setoodeh. Why are we talking...

Perspectives: Quotes in the News.
June 4, 2007... "There were times I crossed the line." Monica Goodling, a former Justice Department aide, testifying before Congress that she inappropriately made political beliefs a factor in hiring "There has been no water and electricity since...

River of Jordin Edition.(Brief article)
June 4, 2007... "American Idol" is over for the season, with a 78 million-vote tally. Maybe candidates should run for office by singing on Fox. Bush (equal) Gets money for Iraq without timeline, but fearmongering has stopped working. Coming: Fight over...

Tehran's Secret 'Department 9000'.
June 4, 2007... Byline: Mark Hosenball President Bush said last week he expects a "bloody" summer in Iraq. What he didn't say is that a growing covert war between the United States and Iran may be one reason the conflict is escalating. U.S. intelligence...

How to Increase Paranoia.
June 4, 2007... Byline: Kevin Peraino Israelis have always been something of a reluctant authority on the subject of posttraumatic stress. Experts estimate that 15 percent of the Jewish state's combat wounded--more than 3,000 vets--suffer from some form...

BeliefWatch: Edutainment.(Billy Graham Library, Creation Museum)
June 4, 2007... Byline: Lisa Miller This summer, tourists who want attractions with a Christian flavor have at least two new options to choose from. The first, opening to the public June 5, is the Billy Graham Library, situated on 63 acres in Charlotte,...

An Escort's Perspective.(Brief article)
June 4, 2007... Byline: Eve Conant She was 34 when she signed up to be an escort for Miss "Julia," a.k.a. Deborah Jeane Palfrey, the alleged "D.C. Madam." The escort had a B.A., was making close to $60,000 a year as a financial consultant and belonged to...

Finding a Cheap Date.(online dating sites)(Brief article)
June 4, 2007... Byline: Ramin Setoodeh If love don't cost a thing, why are online dating sites charging so many fees? The wave of the future, perhaps: free Internet dating. In April, craigslist saw 2.6 million personal ads posted, up from only 970,000 two...

A Life in Books: Jasper Fforde.(Brief article)
June 4, 2007... To Jasper Fforde, nursery rhymes and literature aren't just great reads--they're fodder for his own comic novels, set in parallel worlds where the Gingerbreadman is a serial killer and Miss Havisham mingles with mortals. Some works he...

Sweet--And Steady.("The Reagan Diaries")
June 4, 2007... Byline: Jon Meacham Ronald Reagan's fans and foes disagree about almost everything, except this: they both tend to depict the 40th president as something of a one-dimensional figure. To those who love him, the Gipper is the hero who...

Reading the Book of Jim; The co-discoverer of the double helix is making his DNA public, pioneering the 'personal genome.'.
June 4, 2007... Byline: Sharon Begley It would be a mistake to think that reaching the age of 79 has mellowed James Watson. Fifty-four years after he discovered, with Francis Crick, the structure of DNA, and 45 years after sharing the Nobel Prize for it,...

Truth and Doo-Wop; Can't tell a fake from the original? How one man's campaign against musical impostors might help.(Jon Bauman)
June 4, 2007... Byline: Jerry Adler Let us consider two great experiences of Western culture. One is viewing "Girl With a Pearl Earring," by the 17th-century Dutch master Johannes Vermeer, which hangs in a museum in The Hague. The other is a performance...

When Baby Comes Back.(personal finance)
June 4, 2007... Byline: Linda Stern Doug Fox is your basic boomerang kid. One year after graduating from Franklin & Marshall College, he's comfortably ensconced in what used to be the private nanny wing of his parents' Falls Church, Va., home. They charge...

The Check List; Our top picks for the week ahead.(Brief article)
June 4, 2007... Rent"The Third Man" The new two-DVD set of the Carol Reed-Graham Greene 1949 classic stars Orson Welles as the charmingly immoral Harry Lime. Set in post-WWII Vienna, this atmospheric thriller is as good as it gets. Hear "Perry Farrell's...

Summer's Got Legs.
June 4, 2007... Byline: Jessica Ramirez Warm weather is finally here, so it's time to get those legs looking good. New York University dermatologist Arielle Kauvar says proper exfoliation will help prime your legs for an even, sunless tan. Try Cocoa...

Let The Bugs In.(probiotics)(Brief article)
June 4, 2007... Byline: Joan Raymond Not all bacteria are unfriendly. Some, like probiotics, are good for us: they coat our digestive tracts and may ward off yeast infections, stomach upsets and allergies. The University of Michigan's Dr. Gary Huffnagle,...

Virtual Real Estate.(Brief article)
June 4, 2007... Byline: Anna Kuchment Hunting for a new home? Real-estate Web sites are rolling out snazzy features, like satellite maps and home-value calculators, to make finding your next pad simple, educational and fun. A roundup. Zillow.com ...

No Male, No Problem.(Brief article)
June 4, 2007... ***** CORRECTION: Correction: In the June 4 Periscope item "No Male, No Problem," about the shark born from asexual reproduction, the first egg in the illustration of parthenogenesis should have had only one chromosome set instead of two....

Driving to The Funeral; If someone told you that there was one behavior most likely to lead to the premature death of your kid, wouldn't you do something about that?
June 11, 2007... Byline: Anna Quindlen The four years of high school grind inexorably to a close, the milestones passed. The sports contests, the SATs, the exams, the elections, the dances, the proms. And too often, the funerals. It's become a sad rite of...

Notes From Underground; As museum architects take a shine to less bling, there's no place to go but down.
June 11, 2007... Byline: Cathleen McGuigan The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art is as beloved in Kansas City, Mo., as slow-smoked barbecue. With its orderly rows of columns, it sits majestically at the crest of a hill, surrounded by a verdant 20-acre sculpture...

Mop-Top Napoleon; Phil Spector's genius was limitless. So was his ego.
June 11, 2007... Byline: Brian Braiker Seeing phil spector on trial for the murder of a 40-year-old B-movie actress, you can't help but wonder how the knob-twiddling genius behind the biggest singles of the 1960s ended up here--and in a yellow wig to boot....

A Tale of Two Dynasties; The Bancrofts are the most important family you've never heard of. With the Murdochs in the hunt for Dow Jones, a media saga takes a new turn.
June 11, 2007... Byline: Johnnie L. Roberts William Cox Jr.'s heart began to fail him early this spring as he was waiting for a flight at JFK International Airport. At 76, Cox is a respected member of the Bancroft family, which controls Dow Jones & Co.,...

Bringing Racing Into Prime Time; How signing NASCAR's first nationwide TV deal helped grow the sport.
June 11, 2007... Byline: Brian France (France, 44, is chairman and CEO of NASCAR.) Today 75 million Americans call themselves NASCAR fans, but I was fortunate to grow up in the sport. My grandfather William H.G. (Big Bill) France organized NASCAR in 1948,...

It's Not All About Money; The Wall Street Journal doesn't make the profits it used to. But its prestigious, well-known name is a valuable asset.
June 11, 2007... Byline: Allan Sloan If all you care about is reported profits, you wouldn't want any part of owning The Wall Street Journal. The paper, for all its cachet and influence, is at best marginally profitable; the profits of its parent, Dow...

When Harry Met Tony; 'The Sopranos' and 'Harry Potter' fade to black within weeks of each other. Turns out that's one of many parallels between the mob boss and the boy wizard.
June 11, 2007... Byline: Malcolm Jones It is, in a way, a sort of split-level love affair. For the past decade, children have been staying up late to finish the latest installments concerning the fortunes of Harry Potter. Meanwhile, downstairs in the TV...

Mail Call: Is Bill an Asset or Liability for Hillary?(Bill and Hillary Clinton)
June 11, 2007... Readers had decidedly mixed reactions to the prospect of an ex-president's spouse running for the White House, the subject of our May 28 cover story. One Clintons fan, who looked forward to a Hillary presidency, wrote, "I believe our Bill will...

The Editor's Desk.(evaluation of the United States of America)
June 11, 2007... Byline: Jon Meacham A quarter century ago, Fareed Zakaria left his native India for America. He was 18, a student, and now, looking back, he remembers the optimism of the country he came to--an optimism that stands in contrast to what he...

It's Called 'Sexsomnia'; People with this rare disorder engage in sexual activity while asleep, but don't remember it later.(sleepsex)
June 11, 2007... Byline: Anne Underwood When Jan Luedecke of Toronto was arrested and tried for sexual assault, he had an unusual defense--he did it in his sleep. Really. It may sound farfetched, but Luedecke, who was 33 at his 2005 trial, had a history of...

A Long Strange TB Trip; An Atlanta lawyer with a potentially deadly contagious disease talks about a journey that has triggered fear and outrage.(Andrew Speaker)
June 11, 2007... Byline: Eve Conant and Pat Wingert (With Joe Contreras) It wasn't much of a honeymoon, but Andrew Speaker has mostly himself to blame for that. The 31-year-old personal-injury lawyer from Atlanta wants the world to know he's really sorry...

The Lady and the Veep; Condoleezza Rice has steered the administration back toward diplomacy, but she's still being harried by hard-liners.
June 11, 2007... Byline: Michael Hirsh and Mark Hosenball Condoleezza rice seems in control of everything--except events. As she paused for a few minutes in the cabin of her Boeing 757 last week, winging her way to her 63rd country in two and a half years...

'The Times Are Different'; With 19 months left in her term as secretary of State, Rice has no major deal to her credit. What can she accomplish now?(Interview)
June 11, 2007... Byline: Michael Hirsh Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice sat down for an interview with NEWSWEEK's Michael Hirsh while en route from Berlin to Madrid on a European tour last week. Asked about her likely legacy, she was notably low-key in...

Beyond Bush; What the world needs is an open, confident America.(President George W. Bush)
June 11, 2007... Byline: Fareed Zakaria In the fall of 1982, I arrived in the United States as an 18-year-old student from India. The country was in rough shape. That December unemployment hit 10.8 percent, higher than at any point since World War II....

Slam Dancing for Allah; Muslim punk rock--it's not as bizarre as it sounds.
June 11, 2007... Byline: Matthew Philips It's near midnight in a small Fairfax, Va., bar, and Omar Waqar stands on a makeshift stage, brooding in a black tunic and brown cap. He stops playing his electric guitar long enough to survey the crowd--an odd mix...

'Truth Is, I'm the Same Guy I Always Was'; 'You can't replace someone like John, and I don't think he could have replaced someone like me.'.(Paul McCartney; John Lennon)(Interview)
June 11, 2007... Byline: Andrew Romano (Daniel Klaidman) Paul McCartney hasn't slowed down. in the midst of a messy divorce, the 40th anniversary of "Sgt. Pepper" and preparations for his 65th birthday, McCartney is releasing his 22nd post-Beatles studio...

Murder in 12 Steps; In 'Mr. Brooks,' Kevin Costner is addicted to killing.(Movie review)
June 11, 2007... Byline: David Ansen If you've seen the trailer for the Kevin-Costner-is-a-killer movie "Mr. Brooks," you might fear that the entire plot has been given away. The good news: there are many twists, turns, subplots and surprises that the...

Let's Hear It For the Boys; 'Ocean's 13' isn't a classic, but it's better than No. 12.(Movie review)(Brief article)
June 11, 2007... Byline: David Ansen Supercool and superclever, "Ocean's Eleven" was everything you'd want in a heist movie. "Twelve" was everything you didn't want in a sequel: Steven Soderbergh, George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon & Co. threw a party,...

I'm Still Listening for My Father's Words; Alzheimer's stole my dad's vocabulary. But he never needed language to show me that he cared.(personal narrative)
June 11, 2007... Byline: Patricia Traxler (Traxler lives in Salina, Kans.) Aphasia is an oddly beautiful word, like the name of a flower. I imagine it blue, with slender petals and delicate filaments, breaking through hard winter soil, because each word my...

Unwanted Attention; Arab bloggers face government clampdowns.
June 11, 2007... Byline: Dan Ephron In the two years since he start-ed writing political commentary on his Web site, Syrian blogger Ammar Abdulhamid has called President Bashar Assad a thug, a dictator, Mr. Bean, the village idiot and Fredo Corleone--the...

Obama's Voice Problem; With no shortage of people offering advice, Obama is trying to stay true to himself.(Barack Obama)
June 11, 2007... Byline: Richard Wolffe (With Daniel Klaidman and Jonathan Darman) It was a low-key event for the rock star of American politics: a poorly lit seminar room at a community college in Mason City, Iowa, full of voters sharing their woes about...

The Unsilent Treatment.(Republican Party; Newt Gingrich)
June 11, 2007... Byline: Howard Fineman Knowing Newt Gingrich, I was a little alarmed when his secretary told me where he was. "He's in Hawaii, doing Pearl Harbor," she said. I envisioned him in Snoopy goggles and scarf, strafing the islands in a biplane,...

A Mother's Darkest Day; A caring mom, Berta Estrada was depressed. She hanged her four kids before killing herself.
June 11, 2007... Byline: Gretel C. Kovach Alejandra Estrada probably expected to find her sister Berta asleep. It was 6:30 a.m. last Tuesday, and, after Berta failed to show for her shift at Wendy's, Alejandra, also a Wendy's employee, stopped by her...

The Supremes' Technical Failure.(Supreme Court; discrimination case)
June 11, 2007... Byline: Ellis Cose In the end, Lilly Ledbetter was just too late. her complaint was "untimely." So declared Samuel Alito in a 5-4 decision explaining why the Supreme Court was rejecting her discrimination claim under Title VII of the Civil...

Newsmakers.(celebrities)
June 11, 2007... Byline: Nicki Gostin Q&A: Chloe Sevigny Sevigny plays Nicky, the spoiled second wife in HBO's polygamy drama "Big Love," which returns next week. She spoke with Nicki Gostin. I love your character on "Big Love" because she's sort...

Perspectives: Quotes in the News.(Quotation)
June 11, 2007... "In hindsight, maybe it wasn't the best decision." Andrew Speaker, 31, of Atlanta, on his choice to board an international flight despite being diagnosed with a drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis "It's nothing less than...

Conventional Wisdom.(news)
June 11, 2007... Homeland Security employee of the week: Canada/N.Y. border guard sees TB man on wanted list--but lets him in because "he didn't look sick." Bush (SIDEWAYS) Old: Global warming is a liberal hoax. New: Maybe there's something to it (like...

Thompson and the 'Laziness' Issue.(Fred Thompson)
June 11, 2007... Byline: Holly Bailey Does Fred Thomp- son have what it takes to be president? The former senator turned "Law & Order" actor, who launched an exploratory committee last week, has been dogged by rumors that he doesn't have the work ethic for...

Gates and the Press.(Robert Gates)
June 11, 2007... Byline: John Barry Defense secretary Robert Gates has a message for the military: keep focused on the real enemies. "Today, I want to encourage you always to remember the importance of two pillars of our freedom under the Constitution--the...

Transition.(obituary)(Obituary)(Brief article)
June 11, 2007... Byline: Christopher Dickey EDWARD BEHR, 81 A legendary foreign correspondent with an unforgettably titled memoir ("Anybody Here Been Raped and Speak English?"--the alleged cry of a BBC reporter to refugees fleeing the Congo in 1960), Behr...

Alito's Year.(justice Samuel Alito)(Brief article)
June 11, 2007... Byline: Eve Conant Two supreme court decisions are expected soon: one on whether schools can decide to admit students based on race, the other examining restrictions on campaign ads right before an election, a key element of the...

BeliefWatch: Buddhists.
June 11, 2007... Byline: Lisa Miller The Beliefnet.com post is typical teenage angst, but with a twist. Mother is a zealous new convert to Roman Catholicism. Father is along for the ride. "Silentmist" wants an answer to this question: "How should I go...

Can a Man Make a Baby?(infertility)
June 11, 2007... Byline: Mary Carmichael It takes two people to make a baby, but many men have been in denial about a related fact: it can also take two not to make one. When a couple can't conceive, about half the time the trouble lies not with the...

'08's Other TV Star.(presidential candidates; television and movie exposure)(Brief article)
June 11, 2007... Byline: Holly Bailey Fred thompson isn't the only 2008 hopeful with a Hollywood resume. If broadcasters are asked to enforce election laws requiring equal time for candidates, they'll have to consider John McCain's cameos in "The Wedding...

The End of Fake IDs?(Interview)
June 11, 2007... Byline: Samantha Henig John M. McCardell Jr.'s latest mission may have a greater effect on college freshmen than anything he did during his 13 years as president of Middlebury College: he wants to lower the drinking age to 18--but not in...

A Life in Books: Scott Turow.(Brief article)
June 11, 2007... Is Scott Turow insanely productive? While keeping his day job as a partner at a Chicago law firm, he's written a shelfful of legal thrillers like "Burden of Proof" and "Reversible Errors." Now he's working on a sequel to "Presumed Innocent."...

Now You See It!(nanoscience)(Brief article)
June 11, 2007... Byline: Nick Summers If nanoscience is the field of stuff so tiny it can never be seen, does it matter if the scientist can see at all? At the University of Wisconsin's nanoscience center, Andrew Greenberg is in charge of education and...

The Quagmire Of Inequality; Citing income increases of the most wealthy evokes images of greedy CEOs and hedge-fund managers. But the story is more complicated.
June 11, 2007... Byline: Robert J. Samuelson You have never heard of the treaty of Detroit, which you may connect with the French and Indian War (1756-1763). Guess again. The Treaty of Detroit is a long-lost label describing a series of landmark labor...

Indecent Exposure? New laws seek to protect breast-feeding in public.
June 11, 2007... Byline: Karen Springen A few weeks ago, the ac-tress Maggie Gyllenhaal visiteda public park in New York --and breast-fed her 8-month-old daughter, Ramona. Kudos, right? After all, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that moms...

Bodies Wanted; Maggots, raccoons, squirrels and bugs. A unique Southern study of decomposing bodies has inspired other 'body farms' to sprout across the country.
June 11, 2007... Byline: Raina Kelley Springtime in east Tennessee is a beautiful thing. Sunlight dapples through lush oak and maple trees. A warm breeze sends the invigorating scent of juniper through the air. Then the wind shifts, and suddenly the...

When Bloggers Say No to a Simple Chat.
June 11, 2007... Byline: Steven Levy When Wired magazine writer Fred Vogelstein set out to write a story about a Silicon Valley blogger, Mike Arrington, he figured he would do what virtually every professional journalist does--interview key people, either...

Blog Watch; A mainstream-media snapshot of what's hot (and what's not) in the ever-widening world of weblogs. for full links, go to NEWSWEEK.COM.(Brief article)
June 11, 2007... With the Los Angeles Lakers imploding right before our eyes, get Kobe Bryant's side of the telenovela at--get this--truth.kb24.com. Cybergossip Matt Drudge uses media repression in Venezuela as an excuse to tee off on MSNBC anchor and Bush...

Going Green at Work.(career change)
June 11, 2007... Byline: Anna Kuchment (With Christina Gillham) Allison Friedman, 34, was running her own restaurant in Brookline, Mass., when she had an epiphany. "For five years, it was enough for me to work hard, make a living and have a good time," she...

The Checklist; Our top picks for the week ahead.(videos, websites, book, museum, travel)(Brief article)
June 11, 2007... Rent "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly." Sergio Leone's violent, operatic 1967 spaghetti Western, starring Clint Eastwood, comes complete with the 18 minutes cut from its U.S. release. Everything's huge--the close-ups, the Morricone score, the...

Road Test: Lexus LS 600h L.(Product/service evaluation)(Brief article)
June 11, 2007... Byline: Tara Weingarten Don't get crazy excited. Yes, the new LS 600h L is a hybrid, and it drives faster, smoother and more quietly than any Lexus I've tested. But while this long-wheelbase sedan gets better mileage than competitors in...

Fun In The Sun.(Coolibar)(Product/service evaluation)(Brief article)
June 11, 2007... Byline: Anne Underwood Come summer, organic farmers Michelle and Danny Lutz of Yale, Mich., used to strip to T shirts and tank tops. But after Danny's repeated bouts with skin cancer, they learned the hard way that a typical white T shirt...

Wedding Cheers.(speeches)(Brief article)
June 11, 2007... Byline: Stephanie Schaerr If the prospect of giving a maid-of-honor speech makes you want to run as fast as your dyed-to-match satin pumps can carry you, take heart: Vance Van Petten, author of "Ten Minutes to the Speech" and executive...

Cameras Go Diving.(Buyers guide)(Brief article)
June 11, 2007... Capture the moment this summer with the latest waterproof digital cameras. Designed to seal out moisture, they can take a dip when you do. The Pentax Optio W30 (pentaximaging.com ) can go 10 feet below the surface for up to two hours. For...