Newsweek articles from November 2004

Newsweek archives from November 2004

An Open Hand, A Closed Fist; Are we inspired only by personal vengeance, not humanitarian succor? Are we willing to make war in Iraq but not peace in Sudan?(Column)
November 1, 2004... Byline: Anna Quindlen A rare moment of unanimity in the presidential debates came when the candidates were asked about Darfur, the western region of Sudan. As the ruling government has pursued a ruthless policy of ethnic cleansing designed...

Chairman Mau; This designer wants to kill design as we know it.(Bruce Mau)(Biography)
November 1, 2004... Byline: >By Peter Plagens Bruce Mau is a quietly charismatic man of 45 who dresses in pajama-esque black, looks like a slightly svelter Orson Welles and talks as rapidly as a high-end computer salesman. Mau--yes, pronounced "Mao"--doesn't...

Voice of America; Johnny Mercer found the song in everyday speech.(Brief Article)(Biography)
November 1, 2004... Byline: Malcolm Jones Born in 1909, Johnny Mercer was nearly a generation younger than the giants of the golden era of 20th-century popular song. He hit his stride just when Broadway was beginning its slow decline and TV was eclipsing...

Top of His Game; New York's attorney general is reforming yet another big industry. His secret? Inside 'Spitzer's playbook.'.(Eliot Spitzer investigates relationships between brokers and insurers)
November 1, 2004... Byline: Charles Gasparino Another week, another industry shaken to its core by Eliot Spitzer, New York's attorney general. Two years ago he unearthed explosive e-mails from Wall Street research analysts that showed how they intentionally...

Back in the Hot Seat; How the two Michaels--Eisner and Ovitz--ended up on the same side of a fight with Disney's shareholders.
November 1, 2004... Byline: David J. Jefferson Michael Eisner must get nostalgic when he watches the new DVD rerelease of 1992's "Aladdin." Back then, when Robin Williams first crooned "You ain't never had a friend like me," the Disney chief still had a best...

Conventional Wisdom; CREEPY CRAWLERS EDITION.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... As the campaign streaks toward the finish line, each side is acting like Nov. 2 is Judgment Day. Will we know who won before December? CW Bush = Plan for Iraq: Get everyone to the polls. Plan for Cleveland:...

Clear Eye for the Biz Guy.(reality television program features makeovers for small businesses)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Byline: Linda Stern Think "The Apprentice" meets "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy." Small-business owners now have their own reality makeover show, airing Saturday nights on the Learning Channel (TLC)--when else does the boss have time to...

Is the Call-In An Expense?(services help business travelers file expense reports)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Byline: Linda Stern It's not the long airport lines or even those lonely hotel rooms that defeat frequent business travelers. It's filling out those dreaded expense reports when they get back to the office. Now travel-management companies...

Coming Together.(mobile social software offers users ability to contact many friends at once)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Byline: Linda Stern For a while, mobile social software (MoSoSo) has automated the idea of affinity groups. But now businesses are noticing. Embraced early by Dodgeball.com as a way for cell-phone-toting singles to find each other, MoSoSo...

Correction.(Correction Notice)
November 1, 2004... In "Is This Any Way to Run an Airline?" (Enterprise, Oct. 4), we reported that Ryanair claimed its average ticket is priced "570 percent lower than British Airways'." In fact, Ryanair claimed that British Airways' average fare is 570 percent...

If Only It Dispensed Latte.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Byline: Linda Stern Maybe the ATM industry got a little ahead of itself. For about a decade banks have been throwing money at new machines that could do everything from sell stamps to talk to customers. They've spent billions in the past...

Book 'Em!(new business-bookkeeping software from Intuit Inc.)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Byline: Linda Stern It's like accounting software with training wheels. Intuit, publisher of Quicken and Turbotax, has just released a dumbed-down version of its business-bookkeeping software, Quickbooks, for the 9 million American...

Quick Read.(Leg the Spread)(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Byline: Jennifer Barrett Ozols Leg the Spread by Cari Lynn This book is about one of the world's oldest professions--but not the one you might think. The title's actually a trading term, one of several in this riveting 310-page...

Addicted to the Start-Up Life; A decade after cofounding Excite, Joe Kraus is back. What's it like to launch a company today?(Interview)
November 1, 2004... Byline: Steven Levy Silicon Valley is buzzing again, as a new wave of start-ups exploit opportunities arising from the utter pervasiveness of the Internet. One of them is JotSpot, a company that's trying to transform the trend of "wikis"...

Swimming Upstream; L.L. Bean faces tough new challenges from old rivals and e-commerce. Can the iconic mail-order company from Maine continue to thrive?(Company Profile)
November 1, 2004... Byline: Daniel McGinn For shopaholics, the village of Freeport, Maine, spells danger. The main street is lined with merchants offering all manner of temptations, from $285 Allen Edmonds shoes at one end to the $2,500 Thos. Moser rocking...

It's Like a Blog, But It's a Wiki; Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia, is wildly popular. Next up: a Wikitionary, Wikibooks and Wikiquotes.
November 1, 2004... Byline: Brad Stone Jimmy Wales vividly remembers the green-bindered World Book Encyclopedia of his youth. His parents kept the 22-volume set in the living room of their Huntsville, Ala., home. Each year, as the encyclopedia got...

Capital Ideas.(tax deductions)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Byline: Jane Bryant Quinn You wanted another tax deduction and now you've got it. Sales taxes. This year and next year, you can choose to deduct either sales taxes or state and local income taxes on your federal return. I hardly know...

Psst! Wanna Break Up? A 'cash-rich split-off' is the new tax dodge, and big companies are saving billions by cutting ties with former business partners. It's divorce, corporate America style.(Column)
November 1, 2004... Byline: Allan Sloan (Sloan is NEWSWEEK's Wall Street editor. His e-mail is sloan@panix.com.) When it comes to creating the most efficient manufacturing plants or fuel-efficient cars, we in the United States still lag other countries. But...

Beats an Office Party.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Byline: Jaime Cunningham With Oct. 31 looming, it's time to start planning your fearful festivities. Enterprise has a few suggestions from around the world: NEW YORK: The infamous Greenwich Village Halloween Parade is celebrating its...

Caribbean Hideaways; Smaller can be better. Off the beaten track, away from the places most travelers visit, there are islands from another time. The snorkeling's pretty good, too.
November 1, 2004... Byline: Sana Butler Most tourists to the Caribbean visit just three countries: the Bahamas, the Dominican Republic and Jamaica. But if you're in the area on business and have a little time, you don't have to follow the pack. Some great...

Scaling Down the Biggest Dreams; A new spirit of frugality is shrinking many grand Asian building projects from Beijing to New Delhi.
November 1, 2004... Byline: Melinda Liu (With Craig Simons in Beijing, Lorien Holland in Kuala Lumpur and Sudip Mazumdar in New Delhi) From the Taj Mahal to the Great Wall, the Asian landscape is littered with monuments to imperial ambition and engineering. In...

Innovation Sails Free; The open-source notion is moving beyond guerrilla software. Could it lead to cheaper pharmaceuticals?
November 1, 2004... Byline: Karen Lowry Miller Windsurfers in Hawaii might not seem to have much in common with the geeks who these days tinker with Linux software as part of the open-source movement. But in the late '70s, the surfers freely swapped ideas on...

Check-Ins Get Easier.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Byline: Sandy Lawrence Edry With e-tickets and no-wait rental-car pickups, it seems hotel check-in is one of the last lines business travelers must endure. But the Hilton and Radisson chains have announced online services to speed guests...

Letters.
November 1, 2004... Making Your Vote for President Matter Readers expressed frustration and concern about potential fraud, unreliable ballots and other problems with voting as covered in our Oct. 18 issue. Critical of one voting method, a reader warned, "A...

Hunting Zarqawi; It wasn't long ago that Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi was a two-bit thug. Then the Iraq war gave him a platform that most terrorists can only dream of.(insurrection in Iraq)(Biography)
November 1, 2004... Byline: Rod Nordland and Christopher Dickey (With Babak Dehghanpisheh in Baghdad, Tom Masland in Amman, Mark Hosenball in Washington, D.C., and bureau reports) What a loser. At 17, he dropped out of high school in the small industrial city...

The Creaky Coalition; Allies are getting balky about following America's lead.(coalition occupation of Iraq, 2003)
November 1, 2004... Byline: Stryker McGuire (With Rod Nordland and Sarah Sennott in London and bureau reports) America's 138,000 troops in Iraq were asking for a little help from their British friends. Could an 850-strong armored battalion of Scotland's Black...

TV, Money and 'Crossfire' Politics; There's no ideological coherence to partisan positions. But you must support your team. If you don't, it screws up the TV show.(Column)
November 1, 2004... Byline: Fareed Zakaria (Write the author at comments@fareedzakaria.com.) There are no unscripted moments in American politics anymore, certainly not seven days before the presidential election. That's why the talk of Washington last week...

The Editor's Desk.(what the polls show)(U.S. presidential election, 2004)(Editorial)
November 1, 2004... Byline: Mark Whitaker Lately I've received a lot of e-mails about our polls. With the presidential race so close, some of you simply want to know how to interpret them, while others challenge our methodology whenever the results don't...

Next Stop, 'Neverland'; Johnny Depp gets in touch with his inner child playing the man who dreamed up Peter Pan and taught him to fly.(Movie Review)
November 1, 2004... Byline: Sean Smith At the moment when Johnny Depp and Kate Winslet needed to believe most, they just couldn't. During a crucial scene in "Finding Neverland," the entire wall of a living room literally lifts away to reveal a breath-taking...

Cool in the Shades; An ambitious Ray Charles biopic can't find its groove.(Movie Review)
November 1, 2004... Byline: David Ansen "Ray," Taylor Hackford's ambitious, honest, music-drenched, handsomely mounted, wonderfully acted biopic of the great Ray Charles, has so much good stuff going for it that it ought to be a killer. So why did I keep...

It's Never Too Late to Become a Mall Rat; We've traded fresh air and trees for Victoria's Secret and Starbucks, but still, we're doing our bodies good.
November 1, 2004... Byline: Joan Simons (Simons lives in Wauwatosa, Wis.) First, it's about health, this obsession to mall-walk at 6 a.m. come rain or shine. For the middle-aged and for us seniors in the sere and yellow leaf, the goal is 10,000 steps a day to...

The Next Florida; CASE STUDY: It's a game of inches in Ohio, as both sides hunt new voters and rev up the air wars. Will we get a winner on Election Day?(U.S. presidential election, 2004)
November 1, 2004... Byline: Howard Fineman (With Tamara Lipper with Bush, T. Trent Gegax and Susannah Meadows with Kerry and Arian Campo-Flores in Florida) Presidential candidates love baseball in October. Sitting in front of a tube, they can bond with...

The Voters: Shepherding the Flock; In Missouri, the faithful are doing their part to see that the GOP hits its goal of maximizing turnout for President Bush.(U.S. presidential election, 2004)(President George W. Bush)
November 1, 2004... Byline: Rebecca Sinderbrand If America's Bible belt has a buckle, it just might be the Central Assembly of God, in Springfield, Mo. John Ashcroft used to pray in this massive, high-ceilinged church, and the congregants are, by and large, a...

The Voters: Igniting the Black Base; President Bush is gaining ground among African-American voters. Can Kerry fire up this critical Democratic precinct?(U.S. presidential election, 2004)(Senator John Kerry)(President George W. Bush)
November 1, 2004... Byline: Arian Campo-Flores and Daren Briscoe It was billed as a private meeting for frank talk. Early this month in Philadelphia, Sen. John Kerry sat down with black clergy from around the country to discuss topics ranging from gay marriage...

The Science of Scare Tactics; The shorthand Bush is relying on is that he will protect America and Kerry won't. Does anyone really believe Kerry wouldn't fight Al Qaeda?(U.S. presidential election, 2004)(Senator John Kerry)(President George W. Bush)
November 1, 2004... Byline: Jonathan Alter It's fright night in the 2004 presidential campaign--Halloween come early. President Bush says you'll be taxed into poverty, then blown up by a terrorist if you vote for John Kerry, while Kerry says that voting for...

Can We Vote Yet? You endured the primaries, tolerated the conventions, survived the debates. Now get out and cast that ballot! Oh. There are still a few people who'd like a piece of, er, a word with you ...
November 1, 2004... Byline: Text by Weston Kosova and Holly Bailey (Illustration by John Kascht) No Voter Left Behind Unless you live in Texas, say, or Vermont, you've probably opened the front door to find a cheerful campaign worker imploring you to...

Welcome to 2004, President Washington; A historian's view of what the Founder would make of our time.(Column)
November 1, 2004... Byline: >By Joseph J. Ellis (ELLIS is the author of the forthcoming "His Excellency: George Washington" and the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Founding Brothers.") During the last presidential election, I was on the road promoting my book about...

A Hiker's Nightmare; A sudden blizzard shocks California climbers.
November 1, 2004... Byline: Karen Breslau It started as a gorgeous fall hike in the Sierra Nevada. Under a blazing sun, Jeff Peacock, his father, Tom, and two friends headed into the Ansel Adams wilderness area near Yosemite, expecting to be home last Monday....

The Physicist and the Torched SUVs.(lawyers plan to blame environmentalist's behavior on fact that he has Asperger's syndrome)
November 1, 2004... Byline: Andrew Murr Could a little-understood mental disorder called Asperger's syndrome clear Billy Cottrell of ecoterrorism charges? Cottrell, 24, is a brilliant but quirky physics grad student at the California Institute of Technology...

Newsmakers.(actress Lauren Bacall)(Interview)
November 1, 2004... Byline: Nicki Gostin, Jac Chebatoris, Mark Starr Q&A: Lauren Bacall Lauren Bacall has done it all. Movies, Broadway, best-selling books, teaching Bogie how to whistle. Now costarring with Nicole Kidman in "Birth," the legend talked to...

Perspectives.(quotations from Pat Robertson, Teresa Heinz Kerry, and baseball player Alex Rodriguez)
November 1, 2004... Byline: Quotation Sources from top to bottom, left to right: New York Daily News, USA Today, Associated Press, New York Daily News, CNN, Boston Globe, Associated Press (2), New York Daily News, The Smoking Gun "We have no excuses." New...

Libya: The Strongman Is Still Making Trouble.(Col. Muammar Kaddafi)
November 1, 2004... Byline: Michael Isikoff President George W. Bush counts Libya's decision to give up its nuclear-weapons program--a move that helped thaw relations with the longtime pariah regime of Col. Muammar Kaddafi--as one of his foreign-policy...

Prediction: October Unsurprise.(possible pre-election terrorist attacks, or capture of terrorists)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Byline: Mark Hosenball The biggest "October surprise" would be the capture of Osama bin Laden--or perhaps of Iraq-based terrorist Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi. Senior U.S. Defense and intel officials say, however, that reports circulated last...

Accountability: The CIA's Secret.(Central Intelligence Agency)
November 1, 2004... Byline: Michael Isikoff The CIA is keeping the lid on a hard-hitting report about agency officials who might be held accountable for 9/11 intel failures. The report identifies a host of current and former officials who could be candidates...

Star: Bringing In the Money.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Byline: Holly Bailey Barack Obama hasn't even been elected to the U.S. Senate, but the Illinois Democratic candidate is already one of his party's hottest attractions on the campaign trail. Since his keynote speech at the Democratic...

Religion: A Church's Crisis Deepens.
November 1, 2004... Byline: Julie Scelfo When the Vatican refused to allow Henry VIII to divorce his wife, Catherine of Aragon, the king abandoned Roman Catholicism and created the Church of England, a self-governing community of Christian worshipers that has...

School: Stop. Go. Shut Up.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Byline: Lisa Helem Remember wishing that mean lunchroom monitor would be replaced by, like, a lamppost? She has been. Talk Light, sold by Garland, Texas-based Talk Light Inc., uses an internal circuit board to show a green light (OK to...

Vaccines: Petunia Power.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Byline: Eve Conant Your mother (we hope) told you to eat your vegetables, but someday soon security moms may be nagging their little ones to eat their petunias. That's the hope, at least, of Philadelphia-based INB Biotechnologies, which...

Wine: But Does It Do Solitaire?(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Byline: Steve Friess Some restaurant experts thought sommelier Andrew Bradbury was sipping too much vino a decade ago when he predicted he could make wine lists less intimidating by allowing diners to browse them at the table on a...

Surveys: Spidey for President.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Byline: Elise Soukup Christmas displays are just hitting stores, which means one thing: it's Halloween. Before you haul out the holly, consider this survey of surveys: 36% of people say you're never too old to trick or treat. That's good:...

Transition.(Obituary)
November 1, 2004... Byline: Evan Thomas Paul Nitze, 97 During a lifetime of public service, Ambassador Paul Nitze never held a cabinet-level job. But he did as much as anyone to win the cold war. Nitze was one of a remarkable group of statesmen who went...

A Close Vote? Let's Hope Not. The most unsettling danger is that post-election combat by party warlords will become a permanent part of the political process.
November 1, 2004... Byline: Robert Samuelson Curtis Gans, the director of the committee for the Study of the American Electorate, expects between 118 million and 121 million Americans to vote next week, up sharply from the 105 million who voted in 2000. The...

Snap Judgement: Movies.(Being Julia, Enduring Love, Surviving Christmas)(Movie Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Byline: David Ansen Being Julia Directed by Istvan Szabo Films about great theatrical divas (so temperamental! So divine!) all strike familiar notes. This Somerset Maugham adaptation is no exception. But Annette Bening, playing the...

Snap Judgement: Theater.(Reckless, Dirty Tricks, Laugh Whore)(Brief Article)(Theater Review)
November 1, 2004... Byline: Marc Peyser, Cathleen McGuigan, Nicki Gostin Reckless Rachel (Mary-Louise Parker) is having one of her Christmas Eve "euphoria attacks" when her husband tells her he's taken out a contract on her. Talk about a buzz kill. But...

The Flu Shot Fiasco; The shortage has put millions into a panic. Spotty supply is the immediate problem. Caring for our country's public health is the bigger issue.(Cover Story)
November 1, 2004... Byline: Geoffrey Cowley (With Anne Underwood in New York, Debra Rosenberg in Washington, Karen Springen in Chicago, Jamie Reno in San Diego, Catharine Skipp in Miami, Emily Flynn in London, T. Trent Gegax with the Kerry campaign and Tamara...

Scary Strains; What keeps infectious-disease experts up at night? A novel and virulent flu getting loose in a crowded world, where Tokyo, Nairobi and Moscow are a plane ride apart.(Cover Story)
November 1, 2004... Byline: Anne Underwood And Jerry Adler (With Debra Rosenberg in Washington and Alexandra Seno in Hong Kong) The first newspaper stories showed up in the summer of 1997, buried on the inside pages: an influenza virus designated H5N1, known...

It's OK to Play Games; As coed sports leagues boom, there's action on and off the field.
November 1, 2004... Byline: Vanessa Juarez In the basement of Manhattan's Big City Bar and Grill, the Multiple Scorgasms challenge the Fumbleruskis to a "team bonding experience," also known as "flip-cup." The Fumbleruskis accept (they are seeking revenge...

Greeks Go Latin--Or Vice Versa; Latino fraternities and sororities are muy caliente.
November 1, 2004... Byline: Lisa Helem Juan de Los Santos says he and his fraternity brothers at New Jersey's Ramapo College "wanted to have fun tonight more than anything else." But their routine of synchronized claps and stomps helped Lambda Sigma...

If You Care to Wear a Bear.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Byline: Nicki Gostin In an episode of "The O.C." last season, Marissa Cooper, played by Mischa Barton, returns from a bout in rehab and is presented with her old plush "Share Bear" Care Bear by a thoughtful pal. That made it official. Care...

Can Mr. Bill Clean Up Your IN Box? Bill Gates has been on a crusade against spam--and now he says that victory is within sight.
November 1, 2004... Byline: Steven Levy As much as three fourths of all mail sent on the Internet is spam--unwanted, often disgusting or fraudulent brickbats tossed in your in box. We waste hours deleting this stuff--or, if we have software to do the work for...

Gadget: Silencing the Idiot Box.(TV-B-Gone)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Byline: N'Gai Croal America has a love-hate relationship with television. HBO and the Discovery Channel, mostly good; reality TV and cable news, often bad. But no matter which shows people watch, everyone agrees that television is becoming...

The Digit; 4.1.(World Robotics Survey)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Byline: Source: U.N. Economic Commission For Europe's World Robotics Survey The number, in millions, of robots expected to be in use for domestic services like vacuum cleaning and window washing by 2007

SWING STATE WATCH; The Tipping Point.
November 1, 2004... Byline: Kathryn Williams and Andrew Romano Polls show the Bush-Kerry race is still a nail-biter, but whoever wins will need a majority on Capitol Hill to get anything done. A look at eight tight Senate matches and three key presidential hot...

'Brooklyn' Meets Broadway; A musical about homeless singers and hearts of gold.(Theater Review)
November 1, 2004... Byline: Marc Peyser "Brooklyn" is that most endangered of Broadway beasts: a musical that's not a revival or a movie knockoff but a real, live, original work. Even more compelling, the show was written by a formerly homeless songwriter and...

Health: Kids Under The Knife.
November 1, 2004... Byline: Karen Springen Ruby Juarez grew up feeling self-conscious about what she calls her "superbig" nose. When talking to friends, she often covered part of her face out of embarrassment. Classmates took to calling her "Shrek nose." For...

Bike Tours.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Byline: Jon Groat If you want to follow in Ewan McGregor's and Che Guevara's tracks, hop on a motorcycle tour. It'll get you on a gnarly Harley and fine-tune your steering techniques. But before you go, learn bike basics from a...

Road Test / Acura RL; Snob Approved.(Brief Article)(Product/Service Evaluation)
November 1, 2004... Byline: Tara Weingarten For years the RL has struggled to compete in the midsize luxury-import category. When it came to snob appeal, performance and style, it lost out to BMW and Mercedes. But take a look at it now. The 2005 RL sparks...

UNCORKED / SPANISH VALUE REDS.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Spain has an extraordinary diversity of red wines, from an elegant Rioja to a fruit-driven Cabernet Sauvignon-and-grenache blend from Priorat. Each region offers something different, and with plenty of affordable choices, you can feel free to...

Technology: Search No More.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Byline: Brad Stone Google has gotten all the attention, but a San Francisco start-up called Blinkx released its own novel desktop toolbar over the summer. Instead of making users go to a Web site and type in keywords, the free desktop...

Travel: Heads Of The Estates.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Byline: Anne Taulane Bone up on executive-office history before the election by visiting one of the 14 must-see presidential sites picked by fodors.com . These spots not only provide an intimate portrait of the leader but also give insight...

Style: The Red Sock Scores Again.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Byline: Ramin Setoodeh From weddings to the work-place, more men are sporting brightly colored socks. But how do you coordinate new stripes and checkered patterns? Brights work well under dull slacks because "it's unexpected," says...

Collecting: Is This A Dagger Which I See?(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Byline: Ramin Setoodeh Uma wielded hers proudly in "kill bill." So did Tom Cruise in "The Last Samurai." Now you can start your own sword collection--a hobby that's picking up as more vendors capitalize on martial-arts films. "It's a...

Money: Don't Get Steamed.(cost of heating to rise)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Byline: Linda Stern Turning on the heat for the first time in the fall is no fun. It signifies the cold dark days to come, and there's that unpleasant smell of money burning. That's especially true this year: the Department of Energy just...

Credit Cards: Worth The Wallet Space.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Byline: Linda Stern Credit-card issuers hoping to lure holiday shoppers are rolling out a new round of deals. Choose carefully, since adding cards can hurt your credit rating. Here are a few programs with no annual fees that Cardweb.com...

Design: Quality For The Masses.(Book Review)
November 1, 2004... Byline: Anna Kuchment Long before Ikea and Pottery Barn became household names, there was Conran's. The British import, first opened in 1964 and known as Habitat outside the United States, was one of the original bastions of well-designed...

Nutrition: More Is Less.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Byline: Joan Raymond If you want to lose weight, eat more. In a study published in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association this month, Penn State researchers found that adding a large, low-cal salad before your entree actually...

Food: Stuffed With The Stars.(celebrity restaurants)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Byline: Tara Weingarten Hollywood celebrities have long moonlighted as restaurateurs. In the 1960s, Los Angeles diners tied on a bib at Alan Hale's Lobster Barrel, wondering who could know seafood better than the Skipper. In the 1970s,...

ASK TIP SHEET.(911 emergency response )(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Byline: Anne Taulane Why is 911 the emergency number? --Robert Quach, Dallas, Texas The 411 on 911 is that it was selected for practical reasons. Prompted by government interest, the FCC and AT&T met in the 1960s to establish a...

Flunking His Finals; Wolfe's new on-campus novel has the trite stuff.(I Am Charlotte Simmons)(Book Review)
November 8, 2004... Byline: David Gates For years, Tom Wolfe has argued that contemporary novelists fail to "engage with the life around them." What he really means is the life that has always engaged him as a journalist: a gaudily corrupted culture driven by...

The Great Black Hope; A new biography tells the story of Jack Johnson, the heavyweight champ white America loved to hate.(Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson)(Book Review)
November 8, 2004... Byline: David Gates Since the best years of a life often make the slowest pages of a biography, readers who pick up Geoffrey C. Ward's "Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson" might be tempted to skip right to part two...

Take the Cannolis; But leave the 'Godfather' sequel by a new hired gun.(The Godfather Returns)(Book Review)
November 8, 2004... Byline: Malcolm Jones "The Godfather" is like "The Wizard of Oz"--one of those stories that have become so embedded in the culture that their dialogue and characters can be strewn through our conversations without explanation. We all know...

A Guided Tour of Disney's Horrors; On the stand, Michael Ovitz describes a culture of backstabbing and trap doors.(shareholder lawsuit against Walt Disney Co.)
November 8, 2004... Byline: David J. Jefferson When Michael Ovitz was still in high school, he landed his first job in Hollywood as a tour guide at Universal Studios. Carting visitors around in a diesel-fueled "Glamour Tram," Ovitz captivated his audience...

Conventional Wisdom; ELECTION EVE EDITION.(Brief Article)
November 8, 2004... Instead of attacking, Osama voted by absentee ballot for Bush. This sicko knows American politics and wants to keep his best recruiting tool. CW Bush = Osama tape changes subject to terrorism--where Bush is strongest. But...

Mail Call.(Letter to the Editor)
November 8, 2004... The Heated Debate Over Stem-Cell Research Readers staked out clear and passionate positions on embryonic-stem-cell research, the subject of our Oct. 25 cover story. Some voiced deep concern about its use as a political issue. One said, "As...