Newsweek articles from May 2003

Newsweek archives from May 2003

Tort Reform At Gunpoint: Ought the gun industry, of all businesses, be the only one to be exempted from exercising reasonable care to prevent injury to others?(House of Representatives rules that the gun industry is largely exempt from lawsuits)
May 5, 2003... Byline: Anna Quindlen Under cover of darkness--or a relentless media focus on the Iraqi war, which amounted to the same thing--the House of Representatives recently passed a bill that made a single industry largely immune from lawsuits....

The Tax Cut: Whose Is Bigger?(President Bush's questionable tax cut plan)
May 5, 2003... Byline: Sloan is NEWSWEEK's Wall Street editor. His e-mail is sloan@panix.com. Psst. don't look now, but the stock market has been on a roll lately. Through Friday, U.S. stocks had risen by $1.1 trillion--12 percent--since March 11,...

Correction.
May 5, 2003... In the April 21 article "The Secret War," we mistakenly reported that the 24th Mechanized Division was supported in Desert Storm by nine brigades of artillery. It was supported by nine battalions of artillery. NEWSWEEK regrets the error.

Conventional Wisdom: IT TAKES A LOT TO LAUGH EDITION.(comedy and politics)
May 5, 2003... White House Correspondents Assn. nixes comedians, discourages guests from annual dinner with prez, breaking a long tradition. How wimpy. C.W. Bush = Occupational hazard: Americans see Shiites bloodying themselves; how ...

Mail Call: Mapping Out a Postwar Iraq.
May 5, 2003... With the fighting in Iraq essentially over, readers responding to our April 21 cover story, "How to Win the Peace," offered their own solutions for establishing a new and stable government in post-Saddam Iraq. "What it really takes for a...

Warrior at Sea: The father of the American Navy was an insecure, brash, brave officer who would have fit right in with Donald Rumsfeld's military. In an excerpt from his new biography of Jones, Evan Thomas brings one of the Revolution's most intriguing characters back to life.(Biography)
May 5, 2003... Lying in his ornate crypt beneath the Chapel of the United States Naval Academy, John Paul Jones is the quintessential dead white male. Once celebrated as a hero of the American Revolution and the father of the Navy, Jones has been by and large...

The Shiite Shockwave: Already, a subtle shift in power is underway in the Muslim Middle East. And just about everyone has a reason to be nervous.(changes in Iraq)
May 5, 2003... Byline: Babak Dehghanpisheh and Christopher Dickey Khaled Abdullah waited 23 years for this moment. The 43-year-old Iraqi climbed a flight of stairs last week and gazed ecstatically on the golden dome of Shiite Islam's holiest shrine, the...

'America Can't Rule': Iraqi politician Ahmed Chalabi has the backing of the Pentagon, but doesn't want to be 'America's candidate'.(Interview)
May 5, 2003... Byline: Kevin Peraino and Melinda Liu The Iraq Hunting Club, which features a run-down outdoor movie theater and dilapidated tennis courts, used to be a favorite haunt of Saddam Hussein's elder son, Uday. Now it's the Baghdad base of Ahmed...

The 'Wolf' Who Would Be King: Muhammad Mohsen Zubaidi used to run an opposition spy network in Iraq. Now he's aiming to run Baghdad.(power grabs by various Iraqis)
May 5, 2003... Byline: Melinda Liu At first glance, the scene inside the presidential suite of Baghdad's Ishtar Sheraton hotel seems almost, er, presidential. Armed bodyguards, tribal leaders and hangers-on mill about as a man in a well-tailored suit...

Now, The 'Un-Arafat': The new Palestinian prime minister has to contain Hamas, end violence and get Israel to withdraw. Easy, right?(designated Palestinian prime minister Mahmoud Abbas)
May 5, 2003... Byline: Dan Ephron Mahmoud abbas wears suits. Except for a well-cropped band of hair on his upper lip, he's always clean-shaven. And the belt around his waist holds up his pants, not a holster. So when the designated Palestinian prime...

Nuclear Chicken: The hawks have their own plans for Pyongyang.
May 5, 2003... Byline: Richard Wolffe What are they smoking?" asked one exasperated State Department official after last week's abrupt and abrasive talks with North Korea. "Which alternative universe do they inhabit?" He wasn't talking about the...

The Editor's Desk.(Editorial)
May 5, 2003... Byline: Mark Whitaker Theresa Yeung, the head of NEWSWEEK's advertising sales operation in Hong Kong, is smart, funny, tireless--in short, a force of nature. So last week I e-mailed to find out how she was coping at the epicenter of the...

An Angel on His Shoulder: Singer Ibrahim Ferrer's got highly placed friends.
May 5, 2003... Byline: Lorraine Ali Ibrahim Ferrer didn't become famous until he was in his 70s--even though he made his debut much earlier. "My mother was pregnant with me at a dance," he says, speaking in his old-school Cuban Spanish, "and when the...

'The Matrix' Reloads: Back in Black: Ready to rage against the machines? Next month the second installment of 'The Matrix' will storm into theaters--and launch a high-flying season at the movies.(Interview)
May 5, 2003... Byline: Devin Gordon Once upon a time, "The Godfather, Part II" was the only sequel that didn't stink. This summer, fortunately, is full of promising franchise pictures, none more hotly anticipated (by us, anyway) than "The Matrix...

Summer Movie Preview: Pirates and mutants. Racehorses and race cars. Angels and the Almighty. Blondes legal and otherwise. A guide to the season's spectacles--and the people who'll make spectacles of themselves.
May 5, 2003... Byline: Sean M. Smith X2: X-Men United The sexiest mutants since, uh, the first "X-Men" fight to save themselves from destruction at the hands of the evil Gen. William Stryker (Brian Cox). Director Bryan Singer got more money ($120...

Minstrels in Baggy Jeans? How to sell a hip-hop movie: make it about white people. Blacks aren't amused.
May 5, 2003... Byline: Allison Samuels Desmond James, 16, and two of his buddies were in the mood for a good laugh. So they decided to catch "Malibu's Most Wanted,'' the new movie in which a superrich white kid (Jamie Kennedy) is so obsessed with hip-hop...

Poetry Is Dead. Does Anybody Really Care? If you're like me, untangling symbol and allusion seems as irrelevant now as it did in high school.
May 5, 2003... Byline: Bruce Wexler It is difficult to imagine a world without movies, plays, novels and music, but a world without poems doesn't have to be imagined. I find it disturbing that no one I know has cracked open a book of poetry in decades...

Having a Gay Old Time: While Bush stresses his role as commander in chief, a GOP senator muses about 'man on dog.' Can the Dems get traction in either the real war or the culture wars?
May 5, 2003... Byline: Howard Fineman Sen. John Kerry calls him-self a "fighter," and he has the resume to prove it: medals for valor in Vietnam, a long string of political victories in Massachusetts. In a speech to an overflow crowd at the University of...

A House of Horrors: In New York, runaways tell story of nightmarish abuse.
May 5, 2003... Byline: Suzanne Smalley And Seth Mnookin Jennifer finished up her shift at the Outback Steakhouse in DeWitt, N.Y., and headed over to a girlfriend's house for her nightly ritual of downing Heinekens and smoking pot. The 26-year-old hadn't...

The Tale of the Peterson Tapes.(some of Scott Peterson's phone calls may have been taped )(Brief Article)
May 5, 2003... Byline: Andrew Murr with Nadine Joseph As Scott Peterson sits in a Modesto, Calif., jail facing a death-penalty case for murdering his wife, Laci, and their unborn child, he can ponder that old adage, hell hath no fury... Bad enough that...

A Genuinely Healthy Debate.(Richard Gephardt's health care plan, and the 2004 election)
May 5, 2003... Publisher correction: May 15, 2003 Jonathan Alter's May 5 column, "A Genuinely Healthy Debate," states that House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt voted for Bush's 2001 tax cut. In fact, he favored a Democratic alternative tax cut that was...

Newsmakers.(Randy Jackson of 'American Idol'; author and former baseball pitcher Jim Bouton)(Interview)
May 5, 2003... Byline: Mark Starr Getting 'Idol'-ized Is there a corner of pop culture that hasn't been infiltrated by "American Idol"? Those sometimes-talented teens and twentysomethings are taking over TV--the show's still near the top of the...

Perspectives.(celebrity quotations: current events)
May 5, 2003... Byline: Quotation sources from top to bottom: CNN, The Washington Post, Associated Press, Reuters, NBC, CNN, Independent.Co.Uk, CNN, The Washington Post, Associated Press, New York Times, New York Post "It's a big catch." Former CIA...

Saudi Government: Bin Laden Loyalists: How High Do They Go?(investigation of embass official Muhammad J. Fakihi)
May 5, 2003... Byline: Michael Isikoff with Stefan Theil in Berlin Moving to quell an embarrassing scandal, Saudi Arabian authorities recently detained for questioning one of their own diplomats amid suspicions that he may have funneled hundreds of...

A Clue in The Ashes.(search for Saddam Hussein's chemical and biological arsenal)(Brief Article)
May 5, 2003... Byline: Mark Hosenball and T. Trent Gegax A cache of missiles near Tikrit tipped with suspicious warheads is the latest hot find in the hunt for Saddam Hussein's chemical and biological arsenal. But so far the only confirmed evidence of...

A Job for NATO?(possible role for NATO in postwar Iraq)
May 5, 2003... Byline: Michael Hirsh and John Barry Nato's been casting about for a new mission ever since the cold war ended, with Europeans craving some kind of role in the lone superpower's strategic plans. The possibility of a NATO role in Iraq is...

Relief Aid: Onward, Christian Soldiers--To Iraq.(proselytizing in Iraq)(Brief Article)
May 5, 2003... Byline: Elise Christenson Private Christian aid groups got a boost last week when the White House announced it would not interfere with proselytizing in Iraq. Now evangelical charities are readying their literature--albeit cautiously,...

Reconstruction: Piece of the Pie, Please.(Iraqi reconstruction conferences)
May 5, 2003... Publisher correction: May 15, 2003 In "Piece of the Pie, Please" (Periscope, May 5), we incorrectly reported that Andrew Natsios, chief of the U.S. Agency for International Development, and his deputy would be attending separate for-profit...

Viagra: Don't Feed the Yaks.(research on oxygen deprivation of thin air)(Brief Article)
May 5, 2003... Byline: Claudia Kalb Scientists are testing Viagra on Mount Everest climbers. No, not for that. For pulmonary hypertension (PHT), a dangerous disorder in which blood pressure in the lung's main artery increases, impeding breathing. PHT...

Dieting: The Next Atkins?('The South Beach Diet')(Book Review)
May 5, 2003... Byline: Julie Scelfo Arthur Agatston is an unlikely diet guru, but that's exactly what he's become. A nerdy Miami cardiologist who cares way more about lipids than he does about flat abs, his new book, "The South Beach Diet" (Rodale....

Pictures of Controversy.(wildlife photos from Subhankar Banerjee's exhibition at the Smithsonian, used in an Arctic National Wildlife Refuge debate in Congress, were moved to a less prominent space in the museum)(Brief Article)
May 5, 2003... Byline: Holly Bailey For photographer Subhankar Banerjee, it should have been a publicity coup. During the Senate's March 19 debate over proposed oil drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, opponents of the legislation used...

Smell of Success.(cleaning products with scents of lemon, orange, parsley, and tea-tree oil)(Brief Article)
May 5, 2003... Byline: Bret Begun If you want to "energize your cleaning routine" or "put a shine on it," there's no shortage of magazine ads promoting orange cleaners. Orange is the new lemon (which was the new pine). But already orange is losing a bit...

Transition: Nina Simone, 70.(Brief Article)(Obituary)(Biography)
May 5, 2003... Byline: David Gates What Eunice Waymon had wanted, when she was growing up poor and gifted in North Carolina, was to be a concert pianist. What she ended up with was the creation she called Nina Simone: a dark-voiced, almost scary singer,...

Welfare for Capitalists: American Airlines is just the latest example of CEOs' insensitivity to the appearance of entitlement in their excessive pay packages.(excesses of executive compensation)
May 5, 2003... Byline: Robert J. Samuelson The scandal of CEO pay is not that it ascended to stratospheric levels or that--despite some restraint--it's still unreasonably high. No, the genuine scandal is that few CEOs have publicly raised their voices in...

The Mystery of SARS: As this strange new virus continues its spree, killing hundreds and infecting thousands more, scientists are working overtime, trying to keep people from harm.(worldwide impact of severe acute respiratory syndrome)
May 5, 2003... Byline: Claudia Kalb Toronto was a city on edge last week. people walked the streets as they always do, families went out to dinner and the Blue Jays game on Friday night drew thousands. But nobody was happy. The World Health Organization...

Economies on Empty: As scientists track mortality rates, analysts assess a different kind of casualty: international business and tourism.(SARS: its impact on world economies)
May 5, 2003... Byline: Mary Carmichael By now, everyone knows the early signs of SARS are high fever and a dry cough. But there's a second set of symptoms: canceled business trips, the collapse of tourism and falling stock prices. SARS (and fear of the...

How Progress Makes Us Sick: Advances that make life more comfortable can also make it more dangerous.(SARS, Ebola fever, Avian flu)
May 5, 2003... Byline: Geoffrey Cowley SARS may have dominated the headlines last week, but it wasn't the only weird disease on the World Health Organization's radar screen. In central Africa, an outbreak of the dreaded Ebola fever had stretched into its...

Bezos in Space: Amazon.com's founder and a few other high-tech high rollers are spending millions on a shared dream: to re-ignite the exploration of space.(Jeff Bezos, and others: reportedly operating their own rocket companies)
May 5, 2003... Byline: Brad Stone What is blue origin? The name adorns a blue awning outside a 53,000-square-foot, one-story warehouse on a desolate side street along Seattle's Duwamish Waterway. SUVs and motorcycles are lined up out front seven days a...

Phones--or Fantasies?(selecting a wireless phone, from $99-over $300)(Buyers Guide)
May 5, 2003... Byline: Peter Suciu Today's mobile phone isn't just a phone. It's a lifestyle choice, a status symbol, a fetish object, a constant companion. New bells and whistles are added with each new model--downloadable ring tones, games, digital...

Silence Is Golden.(devices that help make a computer quieter)(Brief Article)
May 5, 2003... Byline: Bruce R. Jaffe Computers are kind of like siblings. Sure, we love them. But sometimes they get really annoying. Like when all those tiny parts start whirring and purring--amplified by the popular new, lightweight aluminum cases....

Y Tu, Baby, Tambien.(Latin American stars destined to become stars in the US, as well)(Brief Article)
May 5, 2003... Byline: Elise Christenson The Latino-acted-directed-written-produced 'Chasing Papi' was second, per screen, to 'Anger Management' last week. But it shouldn't be a surprise--have you seen the cast? (Caliente!) And, while you may not know of...

Suburban Chic.(Volvo V70 R wagon )(Brief Article)(Product/Service Evaluation)
May 5, 2003... Byline: Tara Weingarten Volvo once ran an ad that showed a supercharged Italian sports car towing a trailer. The idea: Volvo's a racy number with enough room to haul loads of stuff. OK, so it was a stretch. Most people think Volvos are...

Ask Tip Sheet.(president's weekly radio address)(Brief Article)
May 5, 2003... Byline: Sally Atkinson How can I tune in to the president's weekly radio address? I always hear about it, but I've never heard it. -PAUL KOEHLER, CHARLES TOWN, W.VA. You can hear it live at 10:06 ET on Saturday mornings at...

The Fat Factor.(obesity and cancer)(Brief Article)
May 5, 2003... Byline: Mary Carmichael Last year the American Cancer Society asked people to list strategies for preventing cancer. Only 1 percent said "lose weight." Let's hope the other 99 percent heard last week's news. A huge ACS study has...

Sitting Pretty.(seat maps of airplanes from seatguru.com)(Brief Article)
May 5, 2003... Byline: Linda Stern With all the recent flight cancellations, you'd think people would be happy just to get on a darn airplane. But there's always somebody who's gotta have the extra legroom of the bulkhead, or can't possibly sit over the...

Keeping Kids Safe.(kid's ID card from kidzcard.com)(Brief Article)
May 5, 2003... Byline: Linda Stern Have you ever wished your kid carried an ID card? No, we don't mean the fake kind too many of them probably already have. But what if--God forbid--they were in an accident while out with friends? For about $20,...

Season's Eatings.(five recommended cookbooks)(Brief Article)(Bibliography)
May 5, 2003... Byline: Dorothy Kalins Deliver us from yet more creative ways to use eggplant. What we want from this spring's crop of new cookbooks is truer flavor, not more recipes. Here are five that really cook: The Gift of Southern Cooking, by...

South African Wines.(five recommended wines of South Africa)(Brief Article)
May 5, 2003... When apartheid ended, South Africa emerged from the isolation of economic sanctions and joined the world wine scene. Visit the vineyards, and you'll discover one of the most beautiful wine countries anywhere. Open a bottle, and you'll discover...

Mail Call.(Brief Article)
May 5, 2003... Readers responding to our March 31 SPECIAL REPORT on the start of hostilities in Iraq all took umbrage at the strike's official name, "shock and awe." While one letter writer faulted "the insensitivity of George W. Bush," another retorted, "...

When Worlds Collide: 'Old' versus 'New' Europe? A new 'Gen E' doesn't see it that way.
May 5, 2003... Byline: Stryker Mcguire and Ginanne Brownell Two dozen university-age Poles crowd into a conference room in Warsaw. They have come to discuss what it means to be European, and what they think about the United States. Poland is the...

Waiting At Europe's Door: Poland occupies an uneasy middle ground between America and the European Union. Its future, for now, lies with both.
May 5, 2003... Byline: Stryker McGuire, Ginanne Brownell Aleksander Kwasniewski has played the political fireman this year. Poland's two-term president strongly supported America in the Iraq war, angering France and neighboring Germany, its biggest...

The World Is Bipolar After All: Europe's notion of a defence force to rival the United States is a pipe dream. It's real strength lie in trade and peacekeeping.
May 5, 2003... Byline: Andrew Moravcsik What lessons can Europe draw from the war in Iraq? One is that U.S. hawks are right. There's only one superpower. The United States can go it alone, militarily. Europeans should accept this fact and move on. Does...

'We've Got Nothing to Do': Poor and reeling from a political crackdown, many Cubans say that it's time for Castro to step down.
May 5, 2003... Byline: James Pringle Few Cubans speak publicly these days about the man they call "El Comandante," "El Jefe" or just plain "Fidel." Government spies are scattered throughout the island--and residents know that when the talk turns to...

The Gold Knot: India's passion for gilded weddings moves world markets and the national economy, mostly for worse.
May 5, 2003... Byline: Carla Power Indian brides-to-be hold heavy gold chokers against their slim throats and squeeze gold bangles onto their wrists at Tribhovandas Bhimji Zaveri, a three-story Delhi jeweler whose fountain and pink marble floors hint at...

Moscow in the Money: Russia is buzzing over big oil deals, and good times.
May 5, 2003... Byline: Eve Conant He needs no further introduction in Moscow, but Europe's richest man under 40 still likes to advertise. Green-hued billboards marking the 10-year anniversary of Mikhail Khodorkovsky's oil giant, Yukos, crop up every few...

Dresden on The Thames: A flood's aftermath brings a rare show to London.
May 5, 2003... Byline: Tara Pepper Just before the river Elbe, which sweeps from Prague to Hamburg through some of Germany's most picturesque towns, burst its banks last August, Martin Roth was awaken by a 5 a.m. text message alerting him that the river...

A New Life for Degas's Young Dancer.
May 5, 2003... Byline: Dana Thomas In 1997 curators at Paris's Musee d'Orsay asked the Ballet de l'Opera de Paris to restore the fragile tulle skirt on Edgar Degas's most famous work: "La Petite Danseuse de Quatorze Ans." That was when the ballet's...

Get Back to Business: Saddling corporations with more and more social responsibilities is the wrong move in hard times.
May 5, 2003... Byline: Klaus Schwab Where does corporate responsibility begin and end? In the old days the answer was clear: a corporation existed to make money. Social responsibility, if it was felt at all, was a matter for governments, charities and...

The Chinese Puzzle: Kim Jong Il says he has the bomb. Beijing is key to making him give it up.
May 5, 2003... Byline: George Wehrfritz and Richard Wolffe The most important VIP to visit Beijing last week arrived in a military uniform without fanfare or journalists in tow. Less than 48 hours before critical negotiations between the United States,...

The Eliza Lynch Story: Three very different books recall the Paraguayan War.(Book Review)
May 5, 2003... Byline: Benjamin Moser It's an irresistible story, better suited to grand opera than to history. An unhinged autocrat wages war on a much larger country, reducing the male population of his own Latin American nation by 90 percent. He takes...

The Last Word: Azar Nafisi: Finding Fact Through Fiction.(Interview)
May 5, 2003... Byline: Carla Power For two years in the 1990s, Azar Nafisi taught Western novels frowned on by the Iranian regime to a group of six women students in Tehran. From this experience, Nafisi, now a professor at Johns Hopkins University in...

Have We Got a Bridge for You!
May 5, 2003... Byline: Gersh Kuntzman New York City was founded on cash. While other cities arose where settlers happened to end up--or where some king decided to start a kingdom--New York came about in 1626 because a Dutch guy named Peter Minuit gave...

Perspectives.(Brief Article)
May 5, 2003... Byline: Quotation sources from top to bottom: AP, BBC, The Independent, CNN, Reuters, AP, Reuters. "That isn't going to happen." U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, on the possibility of an "Iranian-type government" in Iraq "The...

Periscope.(Column)
May 5, 2003... Byline: John Barry, Mary Carmichael, Elise Christenson, Emily Flynn, Michael Hirsh, Zahid Hussain, Michael Isikoff, Claudia Kalb, Ron Moreau, Johnnie L. Roberts, Stefan Theil NATO: New Marching Orders Despite all the frisson from the...

IT TELLS TIME, TOO!(Brief Article)
May 5, 2003... Byline: Linda Stern The wrist PDA, due in June, will synchronize wirelessly with Palms. The SPOT (Smart Personal Objects Technology) watch, coming in October, will receive continual wireless reports that wearers preselect at a Microsoft...

Mouse in the House.(Brief Article)
May 5, 2003... Byline: Tessa Namuth Hey mickey, check out this mini mouse. Now that toddlers are using computers, they need kid-size mice (which are easier to manipulate, and help protect little hands from tendinitis). That's why Susan Giles founded...

Stopping a Killer.(Brief Article)
May 5, 2003... Byline: Claudia Kalb What is a pulmonary embolism? We hear about them occurring on airplanes--some airlines have started handing out exercise tips to prevent them on long-haul flights--and they're a potential side effect of birth-control...

Growing up Green.(Book Review)
May 5, 2003... Byline: Karen Springen We're always promising to keep the planet clean for our kids. But will our offspring appreciate what we leave them? These conservation-themed books will help kids green up: National Geographic's gorgeous picture book...

Why Should We Care? As investigators scour Baghdad for looted treasures, an exhibit in New York shows what makes these ancient objects matter so much today.(looting of Baghdad's National Museum)(Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York )
May 12, 2003... Byline: Cathleen Mcguigan While Europeans were still swinging stone clubs, the peoples of Mesopotamia were swinging into gear. By around 3000 B.C., they had invented everything from writing to irrigation. Kings and queens dressed to kill...

Juggling Kids, Career And History: Caroline Kennedy's gone anthologizin' U.S.A.('A Patriot's Handbook': Caroline Kennedy's latest project)
May 12, 2003... Byline: Barbara Kantrowitz Her father was the leader of the free world; her mother, the style icon of the century, and her brother, the sexiest man alive. But Caroline Kennedy seems genuinely uncomfortable when she's asked to come up with...

How to Build a Ballclub: A best-selling journalist on the secrets of Oakland.('Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game')(Book Review)(Brief Article)
May 12, 2003... Byline: Devin Gordon The first time that Brant Colamarino, a 23-year-old first baseman from the University of Pittsburgh, took off his shirt in an Oakland Athletics minor- league clubhouse, he flashed something that would've made the other...

Out of the Box Thinking: Forget tubs of mayo. Costco's upscale mix of Dom and plasma TVs has made it king of the warehouse clubs.(expansion of product line)
May 12, 2003... Byline: Keith Naughton Bob Cooper can't pass a Costco without stopping. The California wine connoisseur has filled his cellar with more than 1,000 bottles purchased off the wooden shipping pallets at the no-frills warehouse club. And he's...

A New Epidemic: Financial SARS: Severe Asset Restructuring Syndrome is spreading through the airline and steel industries as they struggle for survival.
May 12, 2003... Byline: Sloan is NEWSWEEK's Wall Street editor. His e-mail is sloan@panix.com. The conventional wisdom is that even though severe acute respiratory syndrome is scary stuff, it hasn't been a big threat to the United States. Financial SARS,...

From Needle to Nose: Biotech entrepreneur John Patton wants to change how drugs are delivered into the body.(Nektar Therapeutics)
May 12, 2003... Byline: Claudia Kalb and Jamie Reno First, there's the brilliant idea: figure out a way to inhale insulin, so diabetics can ditch the dreaded needle. But then comes the long slog to market. For John Patton, cofounder and chief scientific...

Help From Far Away: Need tech help on the phone? Surprise! That person on the other end of the call is really in New Delhi.(increasing number of firms outsourcing work, such as telemarketing and paperwork, to India)
May 12, 2003... Byline: Mary Carmichael There isn't a soul in America who's more all-American than Alex. A bright, chatty college graduate, he has an encyclopedic knowledge of baseball and basketball. He loves "Friends," and if there's a Jerry Bruckheimer...

Feeding Lawyers: A dot-com survivor: SeamlessWeb handles meal deliveries to fancy Manhattan firms.(electronic bills for meals)
May 12, 2003... Even lawyers need to eat. (Really, they do.) For two young entrepreneurs, that insight was the beginning of a business. The idea: at firms all over Manhattan, harried lawyers were ordering in lunch. And dinner. And maybe breakfast. Then they...

Games Look to Hip-Hop: It's not just about the story or enjoying background music. It's about 'lifestyle.'.(Electronic Arts and Def Jam Records collaborate on producing the game: Def Jam Vendetta)
May 12, 2003... Byline: N'Gai Croal What happens when you bring together the world's hottest music label and the world's biggest videogame publisher? "Culture clash" doesn't begin to describe it. In November, Def Jam Records and Electronic Arts hosted a...

You 'Pinging' Me? IM--instant messaging--has already arrived at the office. But businesses may not be ready.(its usage, and problems)
May 12, 2003... Byline: Jennifer Tanaka Walk down the halls in most any office these days and you're likely to hear the familiar sound of an instant message arriving on someone's computer: "Ping!" The technology--"IM" to its devotees--is like a rapid-fire...

Using Your Head.(using foreheads as advertising space )(Brief Article)
May 12, 2003... Byline: Linda Stern Taxis, sandwich bags, bathroom stalls--and now foreheads. Is there any place you can't place an ad these days? London ad agency Cunning Stunts Communications Ltd. has created a database of 500 good-looking college...

More Bang for the Buck.(Small Business Administration expanding its loan-guarantee programs)(Brief Article)
May 12, 2003... Byline: Linda Stern The Small Business Administration is trying to get more bang for its buck by spreading its money around a little thinner. The agency just extended its loan-guarantee programs to 1,500 credit unions. That expanded by...

A Segway To a Book.('Code Name Ginger')(Book Review)
May 12, 2003... Byline: Brad Stone When folks spy the self-balancing Segway on the street, their first question typically is, "What the heck is that?" It turns out its creators were discussing that topic all along. "We are an electric pedestrian... We...

The New Ballgame: How to win friends and build stadiums.('When the Game Is on the Line')(Book Review)
May 12, 2003... Byline: Adam Bryant The tyranny of furniture. It's a pretty good line from "When the Game Is on the Line," a new book by Rick Horrow, a sports-business lawyer who's helped cities around the country build stadiums and arenas to attract...

She Hates E-Mail: The president of Southwest Airlines says it's too 'impersonal.' BTW, no Palm PDA either. :-(.(Colleen Barrett)(Interview)
May 12, 2003... Byline: Ellise Pierce As president and coo of low-fare (and perennially profitable) Southwest Airlines, Colleen Barrett's chief responsibility is customer relations. A divorced grandmother, the 58-year-old, chain-smoking, ponytailed...

Spot the Terrorist: Priceline's founder has a scheme to thwart attacks on chemical plants, airports and reservoirs. Is the plan worse than the problem?(Jay Walker of Priceline.com proposes using Webcams to protect crucial areas from terrorists)
May 12, 2003... Byline: Steven Levy Jay Walker achieved fame and fortune as an internet pioneer (Priceline.com), then notoriety and considerably less fortune as an icon of the dot-com bust. But his legacy might one day be a sweeping scheme for homeland...