Sunday, February 13, 2005

articles 2/13

NY Times Magazine
The New Arranged Marriage
There are a lot of people out there who are willing to pay a lot of money to find their partners. But if you sign on with a modern-day matchmaker, you'll have to toss away your idealized notions of soul mates and embrace the romance of no romance.

Blind Faith
By Bill Moyers
"One-third of the American electorate, if a recent Gallup Poll is accurate, believes the Bible is literally true. This past November, several million good and decent citizens went to the polls believing in what is known as the "rapture index." These true believers subscribe to a fantastical theology concocted in the 19th century by a couple of immigrant preachers who took disparate passages from the Bible and wove them into a narrative that has captivated the imagination of millions of Americans.

W. Post
Online Dating in Demand For Valentine's Day
While Internet dating services such as Match.com and Yahoo Personals represent the largest category of paid content online, the thrill may be waning for the once-torrid market.

NY Times
Please Don't Call the Customers Dead
Can the Alcor Life Extension Foundation, the home of Ted Williams's head, rescue patients from natural post-mortem deterioration?

W. Post
Special Delivery
Coming Soon: New Ways to Take Drugs, Without Needles or Pills

W. Post
Previewing the CD's End
Music insiders say that the CD will soon be eclipsed by a medley of downloadable formats.

Blogosphere politics
by Michael Barone
Both parties see the possibilities of playing politics in the ether, but it's working for one and not the other.

The Next Bubba?
Tennessee's Gov. Phil Bredesen may be presidential material--unless fellow Democrats stop him.
by Glenn Harlan Reynolds

WSJ Editorial
The Gadhafi Exception
Libyan dissident Fathi Eljahmi's fate is a test of Bush's democracy agenda.

W. Post
Break-In at SAIC Risks ID Theft of Powerful
Some of the nation's most influential former military and intelligence officials are at risk of identity theft after a break-in at a major government contractor netted computers containing personal information about tens of thousands of employees.

How to Stop Junk E-Mail: Charge for the Stamp
We can now glimpse what had once seemed unattainable: stopping the exorbitant flow of spam at its very source.

NY Times Magazine
Clang!
Pro basketball doesn't have a drug problem or a thug problem. It has a basketball problem.

LA Times Magazine
Making the Extra Pass
By David Wharton
American basketball has lost its way. A game born of teamwork became a celebration of individual prowess. Now a growing number of NBA franchises are trying to turn back the clock.

U.S. News & World Report
Abraham Lincoln: Rethinking the man behind the myth

LA Times Magazine
Clothes Make the Elf
Unlike "Star Trek" (which is real, of course), "The Lord of the Rings" has inspired many a fantasy costume since J.R.R. Tolkien's mythic

LA Times
Neo-Nazis Aim to Upgrade PR
The National Alliance seeks a higher profile and more members with multimedia campaign.

Truth or consequences for Canseco
by Steve Wilstein
It's put up or shut up time for baseball's most suspected steroid users: Sue Jose Canseco for libel or stop the denials and evasions of his accusations that they juiced up just as he did. If they're all so innocent, they ought to join together in a lawsuit -- Baseball Hulks vs. Canseco and his publisher, HarperCollins.

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