Newsweek articles from March 2005

Newsweek archives from March 2005

Ode to Joy, in Bright Orange; The cavalcade of color in the park provided an antidote to the emptiness that has dominated downtown since September 2001.("The Gates" exhibition, Central Park, New York, New York)
March 7, 2005... Byline: Anna Quindlen If you were a New Yorker in the '70s, people were always asking if you'd ever been mugged. (No, but my apartment was burglarized. The lowlife fed my dog to keep her quiet.) In the early '80s, it was whether you'd ever...

An Old Lion's Last Roar; Why TR could never really master his own ambition.('When Trumpets Call', a book on Theodore Roosevelt )(Book Review)
March 7, 2005... ***** CORRECTION: The caption accompanying the Brown Brothers photo of Teddy Roosevelt campaigning ("An Old Lion's Last Roar," March 7) gave the year as 1912. In fact, it was Decoration Day, May 30, 1911. NEWSWEEK regrets the error ...

Martha Breaks Out; After five months in prison, Martha's primed and ready for her next act: two TV shows and a marketing blitz stage-managed by a new A-list team. Inside the Martha Makeover Machine.(Martha Stewart)(Cover Story)
March 7, 2005... ***** CORRECTION: On our March 7 cover ("Martha's Last Laugh"), the head shot of Martha Stewart on the photo illustration was credited to Marc Bryan-Brown--WireImage. It should have been credited to Ron Galella--WireImage. NEWSWEEK regrets...

Legal Affairs: Let's Make an Inside Deal; Talks to settle Martha's SEC charges could lead to a precedent.(lifestyle maven and entertainment executive Martha Stewart)(Securities and Exchange Commission)
March 7, 2005... Byline: Charles Gasparino Martha Stewart's influence in home decorating and gardening is unquestioned. But her legacy may soon include setting an important legal precedent, NEWSWEEK has learned, now that federal regulators are negotiating...

Conventional Wisdom; Savage and Twisted Edition.(political humor)(Brief Article)
March 7, 2005... Almost unmentioned in the talk about prez's trip was the agreement to speed up securing of Russian loose nukes. It's a good thing. CW Bush + Humors Chirac by calling pommes frites french fries. But still a long way to...

Mail Call.(Letter to the Editor)
March 7, 2005... Moms Trying to Make It Work Our readers weigh in on the madness that can be motherhood. Nearly 600 readers responded to our Feb. 21 cover package on stressed-out mothers, many of them harried moms themselves. "Your article finally allowed...

Iraq's Hidden War; Extremists have shot women activists in the streets and killed them in private. Other threats are more insidious--and may be growing.
March 7, 2005... Byline: Babak Dehghanpisheh, Eve Conant and Rod Nordland (With Owen Matthews in Baghdad, Kathryn Williams in New York and Carla Power in London) When the kidnappers came for Zeena al Qushtaini, she was dressed, as one friend put it, "in...

Behind The Suit; Politics: He's a doctor, scholar and perhaps Iraq's next leader.(Ibrahim Jafari)(Biography)
March 7, 2005... Byline: Babak Dehghanpisheh (With Hassan Al-Jarrah in Karbala) Ibrahim Jafari prefers to wear suits. But he could, by Shiite tradition, don the robes and turban of a cleric. His family traces its lineage directly to the Prophet Muhammad....

Imagine: 500 Miles Per Gallon; There have been many calls for programs to fund research. Beneath the din lies a little-noticed reality--the solution is already with us.
March 7, 2005... Byline: Fareed Zakaria (Write the author at comments@fareedzakaria.com) The most important statement made last week came not from Vladimir Putin or George W. Bush but from Ali Naimi, Saudi Arabia's shrewd oil minister. Naimi predicted that...

'Like a Virus That Spreads'; The Saudi foreign minister on women, nukes and the U.S.(Prince Saud al-Faisal)(Interview)
March 7, 2005... Byline: Lally Weymouth If anyone can speak with authority on relations between the United States and Saudi Arabia, it's Prince Saud al-Faisal. A Princeton graduate, Prince Saud has been his country's foreign minister for 30 years. (He took...

Soft Power, Hard Choices; China is emerging as a major economic power, but will that translate into a military threat? Taiwan will be the test.
March 7, 2005... Byline: Melinda Liu and John Barry (With Jonathan Adams in Taipei and bureau reports) Ask a party bureaucrat in Beijing about China's foreign ambitions these days, and the reply may sound like a beauty contestant's doe-eyed promise to work...

Offering an Olive Twig; Taiwan's outspoken leader imagines a possible peace.(President Chen Shui-bian)(Interview)
March 7, 2005... Byline: George Wehrfritz and Jonathan Adams He's a leader in search of a legacy. Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian, often blamed for destabilizing Asia with his fiercely independent rhetoric, now says he wants to talk peace with China. In an...

The Editor's Desk.(Editorial)
March 7, 2005... Byline: Mark Whitaker As regular readers of this magazine know, we've been fascinated with the Martha Stewart story for some time, both as a human drama and as an object business lesson in the payoffs and pitfalls of building a corporate...

The True Believers; Why would anyone still be devoted to Michael Jackson? He's on trial for child molestation. He hasn't had a No. 1 hit for a decade. Look at the face. Look at the life. These hard-core fans people call Jacko's Wackos--what are they thinking? They told us.
March 7, 2005... Byline: Lorraine Ali (With Ramin Setoodeh and Jac Chebatoris) In Farah Pajuheshfar's house, candles are always burning for Michael Jackson. The 46-year-old Las Vegas hairdresser keeps at least three votives lit at all times on a table with...

In The Jury Box: Playing the Class Card; There are no black jurors, but the Jackson trial may hinge on something other than race. And we don't mean the evidence.(trial of pop star Michael Jackson)
March 7, 2005... Byline: Andrew Murr We all know that the American justice system entitles the accused to a jury of his peers. But, as Beverly Hills jury consultant Marshall Hennington says, "What does a group of Michael Jackson's peers look like?" Not...

I Kept Quiet, and Lost My Job Anyway; By teaching my students about prejudice without coming out, I missed the biggest opportunity of all.
March 7, 2005... Byline: Nick Divito (Divito lives in New York City.) "Anyone who talks is a faggot." That was what my eighth-grade students said to quiet their peers so they could go home. They knew that I, their Literacy Plus teacher, wouldn't allow them...

A Tangled Web; He's accused of plotting to assassinate Bush. But even some Feds think the government won't win.(case of suspected terrorist Ahmed Omar Abu Ali)
March 7, 2005... Byline: Michael Isikoff The confession came quickly, and it sounded damning. After a few days of allegedly rough interrogation, Ahmed Omar Abu Ali--a soft-spoken high-school valedictorian from the Washington, D.C., suburbs--either cracked...

Seniors Draw Fire; AARP prepares to punch back on Social Security.(American Association of Retired Persons)
March 7, 2005... Byline: Howard Fineman (With Jonathan Darman, Holly Bailey and Richard Wolffe) The letters on the building entrance are carved in gray stone, suggesting ancient inevitability and understated power. Inside, leaders of AARP, the famed...

Rating the Roadshow; Bush warmed France, but Russia's still a bit chilly.(U.S. President George W. Bush visits Europe and Russia)
March 7, 2005... Byline: Richard Wolffe It was meant to be a heart-to-heart: just the two presidents and their translators, sitting alone inside the historic castle that overlooks the Slovak capital of Bratislava. Four years earlier, in another castle in...

Bound, Tortured, Killed--And Captured?(serial killer suspect arrested)(Brief Article)
March 7, 2005... Byline: Courtney Cloyd He called himself BTK--short for "bind, torture and kill." It was a gruesomely accurate description of the serial killer's method of murder. For more than three decades, he remained at large in and around Wichita,...

Newsmakers.(actress Keri Russell)(Interview)
March 7, 2005... Byline: Nicki Gostin, Devin Gordon Keri Russell She made her debut as a Mouseketeer, then won our hearts as Felicity. Keri Russell, now playing Joan Allen's daughter in "The Upside of Anger," spoke with NEWSWEEK's Nicki Gostin. I...

Perspectives.
March 7, 2005... Byline: Quotation sources from top to bottom, left to right: Denver Post, New York Times (2), Newsday, ABC News, Associated Press, ABC News, The Washington Post, Reuters, Associated Press "He was our Hemingway. He was our friend." ...

He Has Willpower--But No 'Living Will'.(Pope John Paul II)
March 7, 2005... Byline: Christopher Dickey with Robert Blair Kaiser Pope John Paul II went back to the hospital in Rome late last week for surgery to open up his breathing passage, and Dr. Rodolfo Proietti was waiting for him. Proietti led the team that...

BlogWatch; A weekly mainstream-media snapshot of what's hot (or what's not) in the ever-widening world of web logs.(Brief Article)
March 7, 2005... Hear us roar: Kevin Drum (WASHINGTONMONTHLY.COM) asks, why so few top-30 female bloggers? Like Larry Summers, he gets an earful. The Bizkit formerly known as Limp: Like Paris Hilton, rocker Fred Durst has a racy sex tape leaked on the...

Training: How to Survive in Iraq.(diplomats prepare for embassy in Baghdad)(Brief Article)
March 7, 2005... Byline: Eve Conant Now this here's a Colt submachine gun, and this over here is an AK-47: that's probably what you'll see your enemy with more than anything else. Watch out--the barrel gets hot during long fire fights." This is advice for...

No Secrets: Eyes on The CIA.(secret service planes under public scrutiny)
March 7, 2005... Byline: Mark Hosenball Aviation obsessives with cameras and Internet connections have become a threat to cover stories established by the CIA to mask its undercover operations and personnel overseas. U.S. intel sources complain that "plane...

Medicine: Pills: All in The Bag?(preventing drug interactions)(Brief Article)
March 7, 2005... Byline: William Lee Adams When it comes to prescription medications, pharmacists rarely give customers the choice of "paper or plastic." But under a growing program by Premera Blue Cross of Washington state, brown-bagging it may be the...

Collecting: Fast Cars? Fast Girls? For Sure...(Brief Article)
March 7, 2005... Byline: Peter Suciu Drew Heitner has a simple mantra on cars and the opposite sex: "Women judge their men by the cars they drive. Men judge their cars by the women they attract." That's apparently true even when those cars happen to be......

Guides: A Closer 'Read'.(Granta Publications series "How to Read")(Brief Article)
March 7, 2005... Byline: Sarah Sennott Readers looking for an idiot's guide to history's greatest thinkers should steer clear of Granta Publications' series "How to Read." Despite the simple titles--"How to Read Freud," "How to Read Darwin," etc.--the new...

Dolls: A Good Home.(marketing dolls )(Brief Article)
March 7, 2005... Byline: Ramin Setoodeh "I'm a nurse," says Jenni Hanson, 23. "Do you want to hold the newborn?" Only Hanson's not really a nurse. And she's not offering the children who crowd around her a real baby. Dressed in a white uniform, Hanson...

Pet Care: High-Tech Doggies.(microchips for identifiying pets)(Brief Article)
March 7, 2005... Byline: Pamela Hamer Anxious owners may feel reassured once they've had a tiny identifying microchip implanted between their pets' shoulder blades. But the system has flaws. Last April, workers at Virginia's Stafford County Animal Control,...

Under The Influence: Bloc Party.(British rock bank)(Brief Article)
March 7, 2005... Byline: Andrew Romano Bloc Party has the British breathless. "Astonishing," says the BBC. "The band of ['05], no contest," says music mag NME. Shocked you've never heard of them? Don't be. Their debut, "Silent Alarm," isn't out here till...

Greenspan's 'Conundrum'; The Fed is increasing short-term interest rates, so rates on bonds and home mortgages should also rise. Right? Well, they haven't.
March 7, 2005... Byline: Robert Samuelson Something strange happened on the way to higher interest rates: they declined . We're talking about rates on long-term mortgages and bonds. These rates truly affect the economy, because they influence housing and...

Snap Judgment.(Metropolis)(Fat Girl)(The Glass Castle)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 7, 2005... Byline: Andrew Romano, Peg Tyre, Barbara Kantrowitz Metropolis by Elizabeth Gaffney In this debut novel, Paris Review editor Gaffney lovingly resurrects Gilded Age New York, following a luckless German immigrant and his gangster-moll...

For the Love of Chocolate; Rich, intense, fragrant, dark-chocolate bonbons are to ordinary candy bars as wine is to grape soda. And you can spend almost as much on them, too.
March 7, 2005... Byline: Julie Scelfo (With Lisa Helem) All his life, Jason Judkins was seeking something, but he was looking in all the wrong places, like vending machines. "Usually between 2 and 3 o'clock I'd eat a Snickers, a Three Musketeers or a...

Texas, Football and Juice; Nine students have admitted to using steroids and are fingering players at rival schools. A coach has apologized. And a mom is as mad as she could be.
March 7, 2005... Byline: Julie Scelfo and Dirk Johnson (With Vanessa Juarez and Tracie Powell) These were not standard cheers and jeers for a suburban Dallas high-school basketball game. Fans from Plano East on Friday night screamed at the rival...

Health: Million Dollar Smile.(cosmetic dentistry)(Buyers Guide)
March 7, 2005... Byline: Karen Springen Kendall Ramirez, 34, always felt self-conscious about her teeth, which she thought were too wide and masculine-looking. So before her wedding five years ago, the Dallas marketing consultant splurged on MAC veneers,...

The List; Our picks for the week ahead.
March 7, 2005... Byline: Ramin Setoodeh Avoid "Rebirth." J. Lo needs one after that Grammy performance, but judging by her new single, "Get Right," and the fact that Sony wouldn't give up a review copy, it may be more like a "Nail in the Coffin." Buy...

Road Test / Land Rover LR3 SE; Worth The Clams.(Brief Article)(Product/Service Evaluation)
March 7, 2005... Byline: Tara Weingarten Land Rover describes its new LR3 as "architectural." It's also fun, with a tailgate that closes like a clamshell. Inside, the cabin is so vertically spacious, even those over six feet will have room to spare, and...

Ask Tip Sheet.(expression Sam Hill)(Brief Article)
March 7, 2005... Byline: Anne Taulane Where does the expression "what in the Sam Hill" come from? Is there a real Sam Hill? --Sharon Koons, Jersey Shore, Pa. Before the world was corrupted by potty mouths like Colin Farrell and Dick Cheney, polite...

Money: Taxing Decisions.(Brief Article)
March 7, 2005... Byline: Linda Stern Tax season is bad enough without falling into the traps that really cost you money. Here's what not to do: ^ Don't pay your tax bill with a credit card. Sure, it's easy, but you'll pay an extra 2.49 percent...

Medicine: It Cuts Both Ways.(Brief Article)
March 7, 2005... Byline: Joan Raymond As if you don't have enough to worry about when you're going under the knife, hospitals are getting a failing grade in infection control. According to a new study in the Archives of Surgery, nearly 44 percent of some...

Uncorked: Worldwide Values.(Brief Article)
March 7, 2005... Great wines are expensive, but today there are more good wines at great prices than ever before. And they come from all over the globe. Here are delicious wines for $8 or less. 88 | $8 | Bulletin Place Shiraz South Eastern Australia 2003...

Family: Tears for a Deer.(children's response to death in Bambi movie)(Brief Article)
March 7, 2005... Byline: Nicki Gostin It's got an adorable hare, a gangly fawn and one of the most disturbing death scenes in the history of animation. We're referring, of course, to the 1942 classic "Bambi," in which the hero loses his mom to the sharp...

Outdoors: A Winter Workout.(skate skiing)(Brief Article)
March 7, 2005... Byline: Paul Tolme Fight winter flab by taking up a new outdoor fitness craze: skate skiing. A marriage of speed and balance, skate skiing offers more aerobic benefits than downhill and is more, well, fun than classic cross-country. Skate...

Travel: European Road Trip.(pick up option for foreign cars)(Brief Article)
March 7, 2005... Byline: John D. Sparks Deciding between a new car and a European vacation? You can have both. Thanks to overseas delivery programs from European carmakers, you can order a new car stateside, pick it up in Europe, drive it on vacation and...

Technology: Price Dip for Pods.(iPod minis)(Brief Article)
March 7, 2005... Byline: Steven Levy iPods may be the gold standard in portable digital music, but Apple has consistently cut prices to make sure that it won't take too much gold to buy one. To the frustration of competitors and the delight of the...

Hunter S. Thompson, 1937-2005; This outlaw faced down the evils of this world, and the emptiness behind its mask.(Obituary)
March 7, 2005... Byline: David Gates As of last week, there was no word of a suicide note from Hunter Thompson, and it's just as well: that would be a document so scary it should be suppressed, like the Third Secret of Fatima. But isn't that what he'd...

A Man of Substance; Remembering Time's Henry Grunwald, 1922-2005.(Obituary)
March 7, 2005... Byline: Evan Thomas Henry Grunwald arrived at Time magazine as a part-time copy boy in 1944 at the age of 22. He was a Jewish immigrant with a thick Austrian accent. In that era, Time was staffed by Protestants who had gone to Yale, or at...

Motorola's Good Call; The hot-selling Razr phone launched a comeback for Moto. Up next: more cool designs and iTunes phones.
March 14, 2005... ***** CORRECTION: In "Motorola's Good Call" (March 14) we misidentified Mike Zafirovski as Motorola's former CEO. He is the former COO. NEWSWEEK regrets the error. ***** Byline: Brad Stone CORRECTION APPENDED Robert...

When Secrets Get Out; The ChoicePoint controversy isn't just about privacy. Regulators are now probing top executives' stock sales.
March 14, 2005... Byline: Charles Gasparino and Kathryn Williams ChoicePoint Inc. is in the business of tracking and selling secrets: sensitive information like credit histories, and Social Security and driver's-license numbers. But now the firm's top...

Conventional Wisdom; Courage, Dan, Edition.
March 14, 2005... The CW wants to go on record: Jude Law is one of our finest actors. And Sean Penn has one of our finest senses of humor CW Bush = Progress in the Middle East but no progress in Middle West in Social Security. P.S.: Cut...

Mail Call and Corrections.(Letter to the Editor)
March 14, 2005... Can Early Warnings Help Treat Autism? Parents of children with autism and experts in the field responded en masse to our Feb. 28 story. One mother wrote poignantly of the "autistic fog" enveloping her son, while another related how her...

Give Ballots To Felons? Do liberals who oppose state laws denying felons the right to vote also oppose laws denying felons the right to own guns?
March 14, 2005... Byline: George F. Will Under the stopped-clock principle--even a stopped clock is right twice a day--let the record show that Sens. Barbara Boxer and Hillary Clinton and Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, Democrats from California, New York and...

An Arabian Spring; Democracy: Many Arabs are fed up, and want their freedom. Can people power prevail?(Cover Story)
March 14, 2005... Byline: Christopher Dickey (With Kevin Peraino in Beirut, Babak Dehghanpisheh in Baghdad, Eve Conant in Washington, Carla Power in London and bureau reports) The raucous noises of newfound freedom ricocheted through the late-night streets...

Letter From Prison: 'Did I Take Democracy Too Seriously?'; An opposition leader in Egypt sends us a missive about liberty--from jail.(Cover Story)
March 14, 2005... Byline: Ayman Nour On Jan. 29, Egyptian security forces snatched me as I was leaving my seat in Parliament amid the cries of my political allies and the suspicious indifference of my opponents. I was dragged away and assigned to a new...

What Bush Got Right; Freedom's march: The president has been right on some big questions. Now, if he can get the little stuff right, he'll change the world.
March 14, 2005... Byline: Fareed Zakaria Events in the Middle East over the past few weeks have confirmed the theories of that great scholar of the region, Thomas (Tip) O'Neill. The late speaker of the House's most memorable aphorism was "All politics is...

The Editor's Desk.(Editorial)
March 14, 2005... Byline: Mark Whitaker Was George W. Bush right all this time about how to produce more democracy in the Arab world? That's the question even many critics of the administration have been asking themselves as they've watched the recent...

Rebirth of The Blues; Jason Moran breathes new life into the classics.(Same Mother)(Sound Recording Review)
March 14, 2005... Byline: Malcolm Jones For most of his career, the jazz piano player Jason Moran, who is only 30, has been hailed as one of jazz's most thoughtful performers. The sheer clarity of his playing dispels, if only for a few minutes, the buzzing...

Troubadour Next Door; Have you met the mighty, modest M. Ward? Listen up.(Transistor Radio)(Sound Recording Review)
March 14, 2005... Byline: Devin Gordon Growing up in San Luis Obispo, Calif., singer-songwriter M. Ward, 31, logged hundreds of hours on car trips along the Pacific coast in the family Pontiac. Control of the radio was a dear privilege. Dad loved gospel and...

Heavenly Metal; 'Robots' is an animated ode to the Machine Age--and a testimony to its creators' obsession.(Movie Review)
March 14, 2005... Byline: Malcolm Jones When William Joyce met Chris Wedge in 1996, they hit it off right away. They had been introduced by an executive at Twentieth Century Fox who thought the studio's Blue Sky computer-animation division might be the shop...

Why Can't a Black Actress Play the Girlfriend?
March 14, 2005... Byline: Allison Samuels "I learned early on," says a black actor whose well-known name he asked us not to use, "to ask that my wife or girlfriend, if I have one in the film, be African-American. If I didn't, she wouldn't be. I'm pretty...

Showing Off a Little (Inner) Cleavage; Who are we, the women who have traded breasts for the chance to live? We are the true beauties.
March 14, 2005... Byline: Geralyn Lucas (Lucas lives in New York City.) I understand why Melissa Etheridge bared her bald head at the Grammys a few weeks ago. After all, I wore bright, red lipstick to my mastectomy. It was my way of saying I knew I would...

Tricks of the Trade; Republicans are worried. Can stagecraft save Bush on Social Security?(FreedomWorks)
March 14, 2005... Byline: Holly Bailey, Richard Wolffe and Tamara Lipper The White House likes to call them "regular folks"--people with real-life questions about the president's agenda. Only some are more regular than others. Carlos Huertas was billed as a...

The Brutal Price of Justice; A judge finds her husband and mother murdered. Was it a random crime, or white supremacists out for revenge?(Joan Lefkow)
March 14, 2005... Byline: Dirk Johnson (With Andrew Murr, Hilary Shenfeld and Daniel I. Dorfman) Joan Lefkow could have taken the easy way out. In 2003, the Chicago federal judge was presiding over a case involving white supremacist Matthew Hale, leader of...

Long After the Alarm Went Off; The statistics, so worrisome about blacks then, would eventually describe reality for whites. A third of American births are to single women.
March 14, 2005... Byline: Ellis Cose Late in life, Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan complained that big ideas were no longer the special province of the Democratic Party. But in the '60s, the party had big ideas aplenty. And none were bigger than those...

Condi's Clout Offensive; Rumsfeld used to roll right over her. Now it's Rice who's doing the talking. Inside her path to power.
March 14, 2005... Byline: Michael Hirsh and Daniel Klaidman (With Eve Conant in Washington) Just two years ago, Donald Rumsfeld was the big man on George W. Bush's campus--the "matinee idol," as the president once called him--and Condoleezza Rice was just...

Newsmakers.(John Stamos)(Charlie Sheen)(Interview)
March 14, 2005... Byline: Nicki Gostin, Jac Chebatoris Q&A: John Stamos John Stamos has had quite a career on the small screen. Rebel soap star Blackie, rockin' Uncle Jesse on "Full House," and now he's a New York City publicist on "Jake in Progress."...

Perspectives.
March 14, 2005... Byline: Quotation sources: CNN, Las Vegas Sun, L.A. Times, ABC News, The Washington Post, CNN'S "Inside Politics," Boston Globe, Fox News, Reuters, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, New York Daily News "It feels great to be home." Lifestyle...

The CIA Chief Steps Into It... Yet Again.(Porter Goss)
March 14, 2005... Byline: Mark Hosenball Bush critics and veteran intel operatives alike were amazed when CIA Director Porter Goss, in a speech at the Ronald Reagan Library last week, apparently said he found his job overwhelming. The embarrassing report...

Interview: 'People Are More Hopeful'.(George H. W. Bush)(Interview)
March 14, 2005... Byline: Jon Meacham In his office in Houston, still on an antimalarial- pill regimen from his trip to tsunami-ravaged Southeast Asia, former president George H.W. Bush turned from his desk to his credenza to find a note that had just come...

Gender: Formula For Success.(Rutgers highers female scientists)(Brief Article)
March 14, 2005... Byline: Daniel McGinn During Harvard president Larry Summers's now infamous talk, he sparked a firestorm by arguing that biology might be a factor in holding women back in their science and engineering careers. But he also offered a...

Inventions: Inhale! Inhale! Inhale!(AWOL, a machine that vaporizes alcohol)(Brief Article)
March 14, 2005... Byline: Catharine Skipp and Arian Campo-Flores To the long list of creative ways to ingest alcohol--beer bongs, belly shots--now add this one: inhaling. Spirit Partners has introduced the AWOL (Alcohol Without Liquid), a machine that...

Public Art: Horse Haiku? Just Dial.(Counts Media)(Brief Article)
March 14, 2005... Byline: Yasmine Mohseni New York arts and entertainment company Counts Media wants to "transform the human experience by changing the way people look at their environment." It's making inroads (and attracting international interest) thanks...

Books: Capitalist To Novelist.(Tom Perkins)(Brief Article)
March 14, 2005... Byline: David A. Kaplan It's not as if he needs the royalties--but doesn't everybody want to be a novelist? Tom Perkins, at 73, is a titan of American business, even if few recognize his name. More than 30 years ago he cofounded Kleiner...

Games: But Don't Try Playing Scrabble Afterward...(Brief Article)
March 14, 2005... Byline: Ramin Setoodeh You've been playing Quarters all your drinking life. So isn't it time for some change ? Board-game manufacturers are rolling the dice--with a new slew of titles devoted to alcohol. Some tell you only when it's time...

How to Be a Card Shark; Here's the 5 zillion-point question: do you really want rewards from your credit card? After all, the cleanest reward deal is 'cash back' on purchases.
March 14, 2005... Byline: Jane Bryant Quinn (Reporter Associate: Temma Ehrenfeld) Zero percent interest on credit cards is so yesterday. You've heard it all: get a new credit card, run up big bills, don't pay in full (please ) and ride interest-free for six...

Back To The Front; Soldiers who lost limbs in Iraq and Afghanistan are doing the unthinkable: Going back into battle.
March 14, 2005... Byline: Pat Wingert and T. Trent Gegax Army S/Sgt. Daniel Metzdorf figured his career as an infantryman was over when he lost his right leg to a roadside bomb in Iraq in January 2004. But back at Walter Reed Army Medical Hospital, Metzdorf...

The Gift Of ADHD? Two new books look at the upside of a disorder.
March 14, 2005... Byline: Anne Underwood Sam Grossman grew up thinking he was stupid, lazy and irresponsible--"a screw-up," as he puts it. Struggling with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), he constantly disappointed his parents and teachers...

Penmanship, the Newest SAT Worry.
March 14, 2005... Byline: Ramin Setoodeh Grammar and algebra are topics you'd expect high-school juniors facing the SAT to be reviewing. But all of a sudden, 16-year-old Jennifer Chang and her classmates at Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda, Md., are...

Green and Still Chic; Forget Birkenstocks. The new generation of ecofashion even works with Blahniks.
March 14, 2005... Byline: Sarah Childress and Ginanne Brownell Here's a peek into your closet of the future. That sleek bodysuit? Woven from bamboo threads. The orange sheath? Corn fiber. The sequins on that red bolero jacket? Recycled Coke cans. All of...

Racing on The Edge; Bode Miller could become the first American to win the World Cup title in more than two decades.
March 14, 2005... Byline: Mark Starr and Tracy McNicoll If Lance Armstrong has come to define the American champion abroad--single-minded, unwavering, respected but not loved--then Bode Miller is the anti-Armstrong. The 27-year-old American skier is, above...

History Is Going, Going, Gone; We risk losing the thrill of viewing and touching the actual papers handled by geniuses.
March 14, 2005... Byline: Steven Levy Almost 30 years ago I came to possess a little piece of computer history. At the time, it seemed to me a fairly straightforward handwritten letter acknowledging my request to terminate an apartment lease, with...

BlogWatch; A weekly mainstream-media snapshot of what's hot (or what's not) in the ever-widening world of Web logs.(Brief Article)
March 14, 2005... A judge ruled that THINKSECRET.COM must reveal its sources to Apple, which sued the site for leaking info on unannounced products. The president's press secretary said that it was hard to "pick and choose who is a journalist." At...