Newsweek articles from May 2004

Newsweek archives from May 2004

Uncle Sam Wants You? It is as likely that the draft will be reinstated by this president as it is that he will decide to make Richard Clarke his running mate.(Column)
May 3, 2004... Byline: Anna Quindlen Some news events have a way of concentrating the mind. There's reading about three sisters serving in Iraq, about the death of one and the agony of the surviving two, who must decide whether to return home for good....

Mickey's Makeover; Disney president Bob Iger is under pressure from Michael Eisner and directors to fix ABC. Will the new treatment work? His job is riding on it.
May 3, 2004... Byline: David J. Jefferson and Johnnie L. Roberts It's standard equipment for any TV-programming whiz: a giant scheduling board, with magnets bearing names of all prime-time shows. Execs spend hours moving magnets from slot to slot in...

Have I Got a Hot Deal for You; Wall Street is peddling a new investment that gives you the rare chance to run with big dogs like KKR, the leveraged-buyout firm. Just run.(Kohlberg Kravis Roberts)
May 3, 2004... Byline: Allan Sloan, Sloan is NEWSWEEK's Wall Street editor. His e-mail is sloan@panix.com. You can always trust Wall Street to do the right thing--the right thing for Wall Street, that is, not necessarily the right thing for you. The...

Mail Call: Recalling the Ghosts of an Earlier Era.(Letter to the Editor)
May 3, 2004... Many readers responding to our April 19 cover story comparing Iraq to Vietnam agreed that there are similarities between the two wars. Some found a parallel between George W. Bush and Lyndon B. Johnson and their reasons for going to war. "Both...

The Human Cost; They were sent to fight for their country. But some GIs didn't have all they needed to protect themselves.
May 3, 2004... Byline: Melinda Liu, John Barry and Michael Hirsh, With Babak Dehghanpisheh in Baghdad, Mark Hosenball and Tamara Lipper in Washington and T. Trent Gegax in New York The inaugural mission of the 1st Cavalry's 2d Battalion, 5th Cavalry...

On the Road to Nowhere; Arab marauders have killed thousands in Sudan's Darfur region and forced a million from their homes. What will the world do this time?
May 3, 2004... Byline: Tom Masland, With Richard Wolffe in Washington Mornay is what passes for a safe haven in western Sudan. For 14 months, the government has fought a merciless war against rebels in the remote Darfur region. Sudanese warplanes and the...

Another Kind of Warrior; Saudi television personality Rania al-Baz was beaten unconscious. Then she did the unthinkable: she spoke out.(social change in Saudi Arabia)
May 3, 2004... Byline: Christopher Dickey and Faiza Ambah It was late Sunday and the kids were asleep," remembers Rania al-Baz, one of Saudi Arabia's few women television presenters. She and her husband were arguing, as they often did. "The next thing I...

Quietly, Not Peacefully; Israeli settlers are building like mad in the West Bank.
May 3, 2004... Byline: Joshua Hammer, With Joanna Chen in Jerusalem The outpost of Haroe is booming. During the past year and a half, 14 Jewish families have laid claim to this barren hilltop south of the West Bank city of Nablus, erecting 20 mobile...

The Editor's Desk.(Editorial)
May 3, 2004... Byline: Mark Whitaker As a profile writer, you know you're getting the goods on your subject when the handlers throw you out of the room. That's what happened to Melinda Henneberger as she traveled with Teresa Heinz Kerry for this week's...

Summer Muscle; The weather's heating up, and it's time to sit back, relax and try to look up Brad Pitt's skirt. Hollywood hasn't given many women lead roles, so here are a few good men.
May 3, 2004... Byline: Sean Smith and Devin Gordon Don't blame us--Hollywood decided long ago that summer is testosterone time. And we don't greenlight the movies, we just write about them. So with apologies to Halle Berry ("Catwoman"), Nicole Kidman...

Why Revenge Isn't The Right Answer; Long ago, my uncle saw his loved ones killed in cold blood--then joined a quest for vengeance.
May 3, 2004... Byline: Sunil Dutta, Dutta lives in Los Angeles. Since my childhood, I have heard horrifying stories of suffering from my family elders. On Aug. 14, 1947, British colonizers divided colonial India into a majority Hindu nation, India, and a...

Kerry's Secret Sauce; STIRRING THE POT: She's a potential Democratic First Lady who speaks critically of abortion. She's a tough CEO who defers to her husband so as not to hurt his feelings. Teresa Heinz Kerry might just be the spice John Kerry needs.(Teresa Heinz Kerry)(Interview)(Cover Story)(Biography)
May 3, 2004... Byline: Melinda Henneberger, Graphic by Meredith Sadin Just before democratic presidential contender John Kerry takes the stage at a recent fund-raiser in New York, his wife folds her arms around him and, as they canoodle for just a second,...

Family History: The First Mrs. John Kerry; She was John Kerry's first love, but politics did not agree with her. So she fled the limelight. It's catching up to her.(Julia Thorne)(Cover Story)(Biography)
May 3, 2004... Byline: Susannah Meadows Julia Thorne has been trying to escape politics ever since rocks crashed through her window, barely missing her baby's crib, after her husband John Kerry ran for Congress in 1972. They'd met years before, while...

'It's Hard to Get It Right'; Scalia's hunting trip with the veep made him a late-night-TV target. A high-court justice wounded, but very much alive.(Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia accused of conflict of interest in case of Vice President Dick Cheney)
May 3, 2004... Byline: Debra Rosenberg Dick Cheney isn't Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's only friend in Washington. For years the justice has socialized with Sen. Patrick Leahy, the ranking Democrat on the powerful Judiciary Committee. Their sons...

Yes, We Can Handle the Truth; The bottom line: this government doesn't trust the people. The last thing it wants to do now is fight an image war at home.
May 3, 2004... Byline: Jonathan Alter Somewhere at Scott Air Force Base in Illinois, a public-affairs officer is awaiting his fate. This still-unnamed but totally clueless representative of the Air Force Air Mobility Command apparently never got the memo...

A Heroic Life; Pat Tillman turned his back on fortune and football fame to serve under fire. The story of a warrior.(Obituary)
May 3, 2004... Byline: Dirk Johnson and Andrew Murr, With Robina Riccitiello and Karen Breslau in California, Ronald Moreau in Pakistan, Owen Matthews in Afghanistan, T. Trent Gegax in New York and Randy Collier in Arizona When nobody was around, Arizona...

Newsmakers.(Pierce Brosnan)(Interview)
May 3, 2004... Byline: Nicki Gostin Q&A: PIERCE BROSNAN Pierce (007) Brosnan is putting the tuxedo in mothballs for a while to play a divorce lawyer in the new film "Laws of Attraction." He spoke with NEWSWEEK's Nicki Gostin from his limo. So...

Perspectives.
May 3, 2004... Byline: Quotation sources from top to bottom: Sports Illustrated, The Washington Post, Associated Press (2), New York Magazine, Rocky Mountain News, St. Petersburg Times, New York Daily News, The Washington Post, New York Daily News "Pat...

Guantanamo: The 'Revolving Door' Sends Terrorists Back Out.(suspected terrorists released from detentionat Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba)
May 3, 2004... Byline: Michael Isikoff, The Bush Administration's detention of hundreds of foreign fighters in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, got dissected last week by the Supreme Court, with some justices questioning the government's right to incarcerate aliens...

Iraq and Terror: Follow the Money.(Bush administration use of Congressional funding for antiterrorism measures)(Brief Article)
May 3, 2004... Byline: Mark Hosenball After 9/11, Congress gave the Bush administration $40 billion worth of emergency antiterror funding. The money was supposed to finance post-attack cleanup, the global hunt for terrorists and improvements in homeland...

Israel: A Human Shield.(police accused of attacking Palestinian protestor at conflict in Biddo, the West Bank)(Brief Article)
May 3, 2004... It began as another day of stone-throwing at Biddo, a West Bank village that has seen repeated clashes between Israeli troops and demonstrators protesting the Israeli security fence. As he stood watching the protests, Mohammed Badwan, 13, was...

Transition.(journalists Mary McGrory and Peter Prescott)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
May 3, 2004... Byline: Evan Thomas, Cathleen McGuigan MARY MCGRORY, 85 Part her ladyship, part street fighter, columnist McGrory best fulfilled the motto of fellow columnist William Safire: she comforted the afflicted and afflicted the comfortable....

Cloning: Nine Lives + One.(cloning pets)(Brief Article)
May 3, 2004... Byline: Karen Breslau Can't spend enough on your pet? There's a new way to unload a fortune. For $50,000, Genetic Savings & Clone, a Sausalito, Calif., company, will offer cat owners a genetic replica of their pet later this year. (Dog...

Government: Cradle of Democracy.(town meetings made accessible, Concord, Massachusetts)(Brief Article)
May 3, 2004... Byline: Daniel McGinn This week nearly 2,000 residents of Concord, Mass., will skip "American Idol" to spend their evenings in the school auditorium, debating an extension to the town's sewer line. Town meetings are a New England...

Athens 2004: Trained for The Games.(sportswriters prepare to handle terrorist incidents)(Brief Article)
May 3, 2004... Byline: T. Trent Gegax As reporting assignments go, the Olympics is up there with a posting to Paris. There's exotic food, historic sites and an international cast of characters. These days, that happens to include Al Qaeda. That's why...

Off-Broadway: Play With Your Food.(chefs and cooking take center stage)
May 3, 2004... Byline: Bret Begun You would not want to be the props guy for "Cookin'," an off-Broadway performance that's like "Stomp" at Benihana. Each week, with 300 knives, four actors/gymnasts destroy 110 cabbages, 50 carrots and 60 cucumbers. And...

Books: Too Smart for Her Own Good?(novelist Sarah Dunant)(Brief Article)
May 3, 2004... Byline: Elise Soukup Sometimes it helps to not be seen as being too smart. That's what British novelist Sarah Dunant learned with "The Birth of Venus" (Random House ), the story of a 14-year-old girl's influential relationship with an...

Keeping U.S. Jobs at Home; Despite the offshoring rhetoric, big American companies are about as rooted in the United States as they were a quarter century ago.
May 3, 2004... Byline: Robert J. Samuelson John Kerry recently made an interesting proposal that--if nothing else--illustrates the wide gap between political rhetoric and economic reality. Given the obsession with jobs and overseas "outsourcing," Kerry...

Why Don't We Call Them Quirky? As more and more kids live with labels, diagnoses and disorders, a growing number of experts are beginning to use antiquated terms like 'eccentric' and 'odd'.
May 3, 2004... Byline: David Noonan, With Julie Scelfo and Karen Springen Like the conscientious pediatricians they are, Perri Klass and Eileen Costello keep up with the ever-evolving vocabulary of childhood dysfunction. They know all about autistic...

Parenting for Dummies; A child-development expert distills decades of research into a simple guide for moms and dads in the trenches.
May 3, 2004... Byline: Barbara Kantrowitz Researchers have been studying parenting for decades, and they know a lot about what it takes to raise a happy, independent child. Unfortunately, few of those findings reach the people who need help most: the...

Under-the-Radar Radio; While the FCC cracks down on Howard Stern, Hispanic shock jocks are as raunchy as ever. So far.(Federal Communications Commission)
May 3, 2004... Byline: Joseph Contreras It was the eve of Good Friday, and the Miami radio shock jocks Enrique Santos and Joe Ferrero were toning down their act out of respect for the holiday--and for station WXDJ's new list of 21 prohibited words and...

The Titans Of Trivia; Four young editors make miscellany their mission.
May 3, 2004... Byline: Jerry Adler Unlike most artists, Rembrandt was known by his first name. His full name was Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn--Mental Floss, volume two. To the contemporary mind, adrift in the sea of random data unleashed by the...

Grass-Roots Guide to Everything.(onlin encyclopedia accepts entries from everyone)(Wikipedia.com)(Brief Article)
May 3, 2004... Byline: Steven Levy Here's an encyclopedia that evokes a variation on the famous Groucho line: would you get your information from a reference work that accepts you as an author? Wikipedia is a huge online compendium (250,000 entries in...

No Fries, Please; Atkins takes aim at kids and school lunches.
May 3, 2004... Byline: Mary Carmichael The first thing Dr. Stuart Trager wants you to know about the Atkins Youth Initiative is that it is not, repeat, not an attempt to starve America's children of carbohydrates, much less give them an excuse to eat...

Cooking: Tastes Like Homemade.(how the packaged-food industry has influenced the taste buds of Americans)(Brief Article)
May 3, 2004... Byline: Julie Scelfo Before there were cake mixes, there was cake. But a surprising new book, "Something From the Oven" (Viking. $24.95 ), by food historian and former NEWSWEEK writer Laura Shapiro, reveals how the packaged-food industry,...

Health: Easing the Drug Crunch.(using online pharmacies)
May 3, 2004... Byline: Barney Gimbel Not long ago, Lorane Lansaw had to make an impossible choice: eat three meals a day or take her 20 medications. Living alone on Social Security with no prescription benefits, $510 a month for meds was more than the...

Theme Parks: Ups and Downs.(run-down of new amusement park rides)(Brief Article)
May 3, 2004... Byline: Ramin Setoodeh Amusement parks have had a busy winter of construction. Now you can spend your summer riding the rails--and slides. Tip Sheet maps the best new attractions: BorgAssimilator Now open at Paramount's Carowinds,...

Topless fun.(BMW 645Ci )(Brief Article)(Product/Service Evaluation)
May 3, 2004... Byline: Tara Weingarten You might as well call that little black Sport button on the 645Ci's center console the car's very own jet pack. And when I pushed it, it felt like afterburners on the Batmobile kicked in; I was thrust back. And no...

Technology: Reruns on The Go.(Sharp's Wireless Aquos liquid-crystal TV)(Brief Article)
May 3, 2004... Byline: Peter Suciu Couch potatoes are so '90s. With Sharp's Wireless Aquos liquid-crystal TV, you can catch those "Friends" reruns while wandering the house. The LC- 15L1U-S model ($1,800; sharpusa.com ) has a thin 15-inch screen with up...

Outdoors: Better In The Bush!(bird watching)(Brief Article)
May 3, 2004... Byline: Paul Tolme There are few things more relaxing than sitting on your porch and watching nature fly by. It's even better if you know what you're looking at. To break into birding, start with a good field guide like the Sibley ($35) or...

Health: Patch Up That Scar.(Brief Article)
May 3, 2004... Byline: Ramin Setoodeh Unless you're Harry Potter, friends probably don't admire your scars. So make them go away. Over-the-counter "scar sheets" from brands like Neosporin and Band-Aid are proliferating. But do they really work? Most of...

Sports: New Homes For Phils and Pods.(Petco Park, San Diego, California)(Citizens Bank Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)(Brief Article)
May 3, 2004... Byline: Jamie Reno and Steven Levy Two beautiful ballparks with dreary corporate names just opened, both hosting teams that hope to turn around miserable legacies. Jamie Reno and Steven Levy scouted San Diego's Petco Park and...

Money: Don't Lose Interest.(investment advice)(Brief Article)
May 3, 2004... Byline: Linda Stern What's worse than earning less than 1 percent interest on your savings? Losing money. That's what could happen to yield-chasers who have moved their rainy-day funds into investments like mortgage-backed mutual funds,...

Home: A Thorny Pastime.(tips for gardeners on preventing back and joint pain )(Brief Article)
May 3, 2004... Byline: Claudia Kalb Ah, the joys of gardening: spring sunshine, muddy knees, gorgeous pink peonies. It's good for both body and soul. But tending to your flower or veggie bed can also do damage--especially to your back and joints. Before...

Fitness: Pavement Pounding.(buying the right running shoes)(Brief Article)
May 3, 2004... Byline: Brian Braiker Spring's gorgeous weather robs us of excuses for not exercising. If you're a jogger, here are a few tips on finding the perfect shoe. Think on your feet: are you flatfooted or do you have high arches? Flat feet need...

Ask Tip Sheet.(straining to hear)(Brief Article)
May 3, 2004... Byline: Ramin Setoodeh When we "strain to hear" a faint sound, are we really straining anything? Nancy Pfeffer, Long Beach, Calif. Sounds like a mind-boggler. We asked Dr. Joseph B. Roberson of the California Ear Institute to hear...

Meal Ticket: Boston.(restaurants, Boston, Massachusetts)(Restaurant Review)
May 3, 2004... Byline: From Zagat Survey's "Boston Restaurants" guide Its nickname, Beantown, may not inspire culinary confidence. But the city's once bland restaurant scene is now booming. TIP SHEET previews some "great finds" from Zagat Survey's new...

Travel: Beyond Partying.(visiting Amsterdam, Netherlands)(Brief Article)
May 3, 2004... Byline: Michelle Jana Chan There's no need to hurry in Amsterdam, a city where 80 percent of residents travel by bicycle. A guide to a laid-back destination: CYCLE. Bike to the Eastern Islands, where architects have built some of the...

Food: Start the Frothers.(tips on brewing a good cup of coffee)(Brief Article)
May 3, 2004... Byline: Anna Kuchment Even coffeemaking has turned into a competitive sport. This week America's Specialty Coffee Association names a new U.S. barista champion. tip sheet asked last year's winner, Heather Perry, 21, how to make the perfect...

Conventional Wisdom; It's Not A Game Edition.(Brief Article)
May 3, 2004... The government didn't want the public to see photos of flag-draped coffins. But they're destined to become patriotic images. CW Bush + Poll bump proves it's good to be steadfast no matter what the results. But will he blink...

A Very Public Offering; After months of anticipation, the Sultans of Search have finally announced their IPO. And they're doing it their way.(Google Inc.'s initial public offering)
May 10, 2004... Byline: Steven Levy, With Brad Stone in San Francisco Google is not a conventional company. We do not intend to become one." With those words, one of the chattiest, most idealistic and economically momentous "S-1" forms ever--the filing...

Wall Street: Playing by Google Rules; Investment bankers pulled out all the stops to get the Internet company's business. Goldman Sachs pulled out one too many.
May 10, 2004... Byline: Charles Gasparino When executives at Google went looking for Wall Street investment bankers to underwrite the company's massive initial public offering, they laid down strict terms of engagement: bring us new ideas on how to sell...

Opinion: Going Public? Bad Idea. Google held off for years before finally giving in to pressure to sell stock to outside investors. The case for staying private.(Column)
May 10, 2004... Byline: Allan Sloan Boy, the guys running Google are really making a mistake by taking the company public. Yeah, I understand that employees and venture capitalists are agitating to have a stock they can sell. But no matter how high-minded...

Mail Call and Corrections: How to Get Relief for Your Aching Back.(Letter to the Editor)
May 10, 2004... Readers responding to our April 26 cover story were full of advice. "Excellent, informative and to the point," one wrote. "Pain management was not mentioned," a doctor noted. "These techniques range from epidural and other steroid injections...

Comanche Spring, 2004; John Kerry could say: 'This election is not about ideology. It's about competence.' The trouble is, it has been said before.(Column)
May 10, 2004... Byline: George F. Will In "Lone Star Nation," his new history of the battle for Texas independence, H. W. Brands of Texas A&M writes that one particularly fierce Indian tribe called itself, as many tribes did, simply "the People," but the...

Putting It All Together; New medical research shows how different from men women really are. Take heart disease: female symptoms are more subtle and often get overlooked. What to watch for, what to do.(Cover Story)
May 10, 2004... Byline: Claudia Kalb and Karen Springen, With Joan Raymond Like most women, Kathy Cunningham, 49, a wife, mother and senior VP at a Chicago bank, was well acquainted with the emotional chambers in her heart. Joy, sadness, love. But...

Maintaining Heart Health: What Tests Can Tell You.(Cover Story)
May 10, 2004... Byline: Paula A. Johnson, M.D., Celeste Robb-Nicholson, M.D., and Nancy A. Ferrari, Adapted from the Harvard Women's Health Watch and the Harvard Heart Letter. For more information, go to health.harvard.edu/newsweek. You probably know your...

Aspirin and Statins in Women: Heading Off Heart Attack.(Cover Story)
May 10, 2004... Byline: Celeste Robb-Nicholson, M.D., Paula A. Johnson, M.D., and Nancy A. Ferrari, Adapted from the Harvard Women's Health Watch and the Harvard Health Letter. For more information, go to health.harvard.edu/NEWSWEEK. Heart disease may...

Fresh Weapons For an Old Battle; New treatments for breast cancer are easier on patients and more efficient at killing tumors.(Cover Story)
May 10, 2004... Byline: Anne Underwood Anyone who has survived chemotherapy knows how brutal it can be. But thanks to an experimental procedure, Barbara Link, 55, of Cary, N.C., found that parts of the treatment were "actually pleasant." Her enthusiasm is...

Have It Your Way: Redesigning Birth; After decades of letting doctors run the show, more women are taking big decisions into their own hands.(Cover Story)
May 10, 2004... Byline: Mary Carmichael Water birth, homebirth, HypnoBirthing--when Marion McCartney started as a nurse-midwife 30 years ago, none of those were popular, and birth was just birth. Women didn't get to choose their method of labor. If they...

Fetal Health: Planning for the Future.(Cover Story)
May 10, 2004... Byline: Celeste Robb-Nicholson, M.D., Carolyn Schatz and Susan Pauker, M.D., Robb-Nicholson and Schatz edit the Harvard Women's Health Watch. PAUKER is a geneticist and advisory-board member of the Harvard Women's Health Watch. For more...

An Unspeakable Affliction; Urinary incontinence mortifies millions of women. Luckily, it's not a life sentence.(Cover Story)
May 10, 2004... Byline: May M. Wakamatsu, M.D., and Kathleen Cahill Allison, Adapted from "Better Bladder and Bowel Control," published by Harvard Medical School. The booklet is available throughhealth.harvard.edu/NEWSWEEK. When you gotta go, you gotta...

Discomfort: The Mystery of Cystitis.(interstitial cystitis)(Cover Story)
May 10, 2004... Byline: Celeste Robb-Nicholson, M.D., and Carolyn Schatz, Adapted from the Harvard Women's Health Watch. For more information go to health.harvard.edu/newsweek. It's your umpteenth trip to the bathroom to empty your bladder, and the...

How to Think About HT; Should you or shouldn't you? Our experts clarify the data on hormone therapy and menopause.(hormone therapy)(Cover Story)
May 10, 2004... Byline: Nananda Col, M.D., and Anthony L. Komaroff, M.D., For more information on hormone therapy, including recommendations about books and an interactive Web site, go to health.harvard.edu/newsweek. It used to be easy. Hormone therapy...

No Time for Wrinkles; Women have more beauty-treatment choices than ever. Is that a good thing?(Cover Story)
May 10, 2004... Byline: Jennifer Barrett Alisa Kauffman has been practicing dentistry for nearly two decades, but some new patients still mistake the petite, 44-year-old New Yorker for a dental-school student. "I tell them it's just the Botox." But the...

The More Social Sex; Why do women form more powerful friendships than men? It's all about survival.(Cover Story)
May 10, 2004... Byline: Anna Kuchment Western culture is filled with examples of heroic male friendships. Lewis and Clark opened up the American West. James Watson and Francis Crick unveiled the DNA double helix, the secret of life. Crime-fighting duos...

A Better Sex Life; Loss of sexual verve is a common problem. But there are lots of solutions.
May 10, 2004... Byline: Jan Shifren, M.D., and Nancy A. Ferrari, Adapted from the Harvard Women's Health Watch. For more information, go to health.harvard.edu/NEWSWEEK. Watch a few "Sex and the City" reruns or page through a women's magazine and you might...

Alcohol's Deadly Triple Threat; Women get addicted faster, seek help less often and are more likely to die from the bottle.(Cover Story)
May 10, 2004... Byline: Karen Springen and Barbara Kantrowitz, With Peg Tyre Pat Staples's childhood gave birth to the demons that nearly killed her. Her father was a volatile alcoholic. "I was physically, verbally and emotionally abused," she says. "Nose...

Moderation: If You Want to Cut Back.(drinking alocholic beverages)(Cover Story)
May 10, 2004... Byline: Celeste Robb-Nicholson, M.D., and Carolyn Schatz, Adapted from the Harvard Women's Health Watch. For more information on alcohol use, see health.harvard.edu/NEWSWEEK. A little alcohol can do wonders for a meal or a social gathering,...

A Worldwide Gender Gap.(Cover Story)(Column)
May 10, 2004... Byline: Kati Marton, Marton, author of "Hidden Power: Presidential Marriages That Shaped Our Recent History" (Anchor Books), is chair of the International Women's Health Coalition. Women suffer countless disadvantages compared with men....

Health for Life M.D.: Our Doctor's Advice; Online readers sent us questions about women's medical issues. We asked a Harvard doctor to help.(Cover Story)
May 10, 2004... Byline: Celeste Robb-Nicholson, M.D., Robb-Nicholson is an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, associate physician at Massachusetts General Hospital and founding medical editor of the Harvard Women's Health Watch. She...

Women, Cigarettes and Death; More women die of lung cancer than any other kind. Smokers, beware.(Cover Story)
May 10, 2004... Byline: Karen Springen Quick--what's the leading cancer killer of women? If you answered "breast cancer," you're not alone--but you're wrong. Lung cancer is far deadlier. Its five-year survival rate is 15 percent, compared with 86 percent...

Rough Justice in Iraq; Exclusive: As alarming details surface in a growing prisoner-abuse scandal, the U.S. general who was in charge talks about what went wrong.(Brigadier General Janis Karpinski)(Interview)
May 10, 2004... Byline: Rod Nordland and John Barry, With Melinda Liu and Babak Dehghanpisheh in Baghdad Brig. Gen. Janis Karpinski is angry. She says she warned her superiors from the first about the ill-treatment of Iraqi prisoners. As commander of the...

Bush's Quiet Multilateralism; The administration loves global cooperation when it comes to trade. So why can't we try it when lives, and not just lucre, are on the line?(U.S. President George W. Bush)
May 10, 2004... Byline: Fareed Zakaria The Bush administration has a secret multilateral side. Did you know that it routinely allows an international organization to make crucial decisions affecting the lives of all Americans? That it allows...

Intelligence: A Double Game; Has Chalabi given 'sensitive' information on U.S. interests to Iran? He denies it, but the White House is wary.(Iraqi politician Ahmad Chalabi)
May 10, 2004... Byline: Mark Hosenball Ahmad Chalabi, the longtime Pentagon favorite to become leader of a free Iraq, has never made a secret of his close ties to Iran. Before the U.S. invasion of Baghdad, Chalabi's Iraqi National Congress maintained a...

Chinks In Our Armor; The Army's chief weapons tester said Strykers were not safe against RPGs. Then the Army shipped them to Iraq.(the Stryker Armored Vehicle)
May 10, 2004... Byline: Michael Hirsh Tom Christie was worried. It was the fall of 2003, and the Pentagon's chief weapons tester had noted problems with the Army's pride and joy, the new Stryker Armored Vehicle. The $4 billion program was seen as the...

The Editor's Desk.(Editorial)
May 10, 2004... Byline: Mark Whitaker Every once in a while we publish an issue that becomes a "keeper" for our readers. That's what happened in 1999 when we released a Special Edition on women's health. Subscribers and newsstand buyers alike wrote us to...

Out For Blood; Summer's first blockbuster, 'Van Helsing,' arrives to nasty Web reviews and sniping from rival studios. But can buzz actually drive a stake through its heart?
May 10, 2004... Byline: Sean Smith, With Carla Power in Prague The city of Prague is elegant and intimate, whispering of hidden charms and quiet mysteries. "Van Helsing," which was shot there, is not. Directed by Stephen Sommers, who made "The Mummy" and...

My Morning Run Is A Moving Meditation; Competitiveness gets me out the door, but it's the peace I feel that keeps me pounding the pavement.(Column)
May 10, 2004... Byline: Peggy Duffy, Duffy lives in Centreville, Va. My sister has lost several toenails over the years. "It's a consequence of running," she told me while recounting her latest training woes. She holds this fact up like a merit badge. She...

Kerry's Latest Colors; Banner waves: John Kerry's upriver, under siege. Is his plan to take it to Bush on national security a masterstroke, or a fool's errand? The Democrat's path out of the hot zone.
May 10, 2004... Byline: Howard Fineman and T. Trent Gegax Sen. John Kerry has been a man under fire. In a choreographed attack, Republicans last week ambushed him with a 33-year-old leaked videotape (unearthed in the National Archives) and bombed him with...

A Racist On the Rise; After a post-9/11 slump, hate groups see a surge.
May 10, 2004... Byline: Rebecca Sinderbrand September 11 wasn't kind to the white-power movement. After the terrorist attacks, several of the nation's largest hate groups lost members and money, and some all but collapsed after bitter internal power...

A Protest Over Protests in New York.(activist group United for Peace and Justice denied permit to hold demonstration in Central Park)(Brief Article)
May 10, 2004... Byline: Sarah Childress Is the city famous for speaking its mind trying to force protesters to put a cork in it? That's the impression activists got last week when the group United for Peace and Justice was denied a permit to hold a rally...

Newsmakers.(chef Jacques Pepin)(Interview)
May 10, 2004... Byline: Dorothy Kalins Q&A: Jacques Pepin Superstar Chef Jacques Pepin calls his best-selling memoir, just appearing in paperback, "The Apprentice." Not because he beat out rivals for 16 weeks to get a $250K gig, but because he started...

Perspectives.
May 10, 2004... Byline: Quotation Sources From Top To Bottom, Left To Right: CNN, Los Angeles Times, Daily Collegian, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Associated Press, New York Times, The Hill, Baltimore Sun, Boston Globe, Associated Press "That's not...