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Friday August 18 00

BBC  Injury halts Page gigs
(Billed as the Jimmy Page and the Black Crowes tour, guitar icon temporarily bows out.)
Melbourne Age  Jerry Lewis signs 20-year contract
(74 yr old legenday goofball is apparently very optimisitc.)
London Times  Why we pay stiff upper lip-service to the puzzling proverbs of our past
(The U.K.'s premier wordsmith asks, among other things, why do we say "keep a stiff upper lip" when it's actually the lower lip that trembles?)
London Times  Beware the Bitch
(Writer wants to reclaim the word. Feminists may now cringe.)
London Telegraph  Girl Power leaves lads lagging behind
(There's plenty of boys who excel at school and tests, but there is a huge group of boys at the bottom of the heap.
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London Telegraph   Blame the teaching, not the boys
Writer claims women teachers, who are neurotic and overconscientious, are holding boys back in school.
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Manchester Guardian  Crew 'killed in sub blast'
(Latest theory is that most, of not all, of the crew died instantly.)
Yahoo Headlines  Ben and Jerry's ice cream contains high dioxin levels - study
(More Cherry Garcia, anyone?)
London Sun  Jack's having a whole Lara fun
(In much lighter news, 63 yr old Jack Nicholson and his 30 yr old galpal, Lara FLynn Boyle, are spotted frolicking at the French Riveria.)
NY Times  Democrats Left Breathless by Kiss
(Delegates wowed.
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Nerve  This Week in Sex
(The week in review.)

Thursday August 17 00

London Telegraph  A Fugee in fighting form
(Le Grand Wyclef.     Telegraph login: e-portals  password: e-portals)
London Times  Abuses and the beast
(Review of new biography of Aleister Crowley, once known as "the wickedest man in the world.")
London Sun  Elton tells Eminem: I'm right behind you
(Gay-bashing rapper finds support in the oddest of places.)
London Express  How will the celebrity babies feel about their pensioner parents?
(Article questions the wisdom of ageing parents beginning new families.)
NY Times  So Much Rumbling That He Fears for the Foundation
(Review of "JEW VS. JEW The Struggle for the Soul of American Jewry. By Samuel G. Freedman." For another review, read yesterday's link to Slate magazine.
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National Post  With Sean gone, it's down to the final four
(The dumb doc finally walks the plank.)

Wednesday August 16 00

Sydney Morning Herald  Global warming scientist erred
("The scientist who alerted the world to the consequences of the greenhouse effect has admitted that carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels was not the main cause of rapid warming of the Earth in recent decades." For a companion article, page down to Wednesday August the 9th for "American Outlook Cool Planet, Hot Politics" where a scientist claims that there is not enough evidence validating the global warming theory and warns us of politicians invoking it as creed.)
BBC  Sleep linked to ageing
(University of Chicago researchers find link between ageing and lessening amounts of deep sleep.)
London Telegraph  How I bagged a brace of babies
(40 yr old writer, a twin himself, has twins and realizes he can kiss his sleep goodbye. Given the above article, it appears he will be ageing fast.
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London Times  Spiritual guides for the me generation
(You no longer need to go to church, it seems. The advisors come to you. President Clinton, for example, has three.)
London Telegraph  Spiritual material for the summer mood
(What to wear when your spiritual advisor comes a-knockin'.
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Slate  Do Jews hate each other?
(Discussion of Jew vs Jew, Samuel Freedman's examination of escalating tensions among American Jews. For 2 companion articles, page down to Monday August the 14 for Slate's "What is a Jewish American?" and then check out Saturday August the 12th for a piece from the NY Times, "The Jewish Tipping Point", which describes the battle between Orthodox and Reform Jews in Beechwood, Ohio.   Times login: e-portals  password: e-portals)
National Post  Did the business with Sean's dad weird you out, too?
(Weekly Survivor roundtable ends with this surreal vision: "And then Sue and Rudy, in a single night of wild passion brought on by the seductive tropical atmosphere and their secret plans to kill Rich, produce the single most ornery human ever conceived".)
Entertainment Weekly  Final Answer
(Nice interview with Colleen, last week's Survivor loser, but probably the nicest person on the island.)
Toronto Globe and Mail  Cruising Speed
("k.d. lang drives a Jaguar. The former farm girl from Consort, Alta., also rides a Harley Springer motorcyle, a Yamaha 250, a vintage Enduro off-road bike, and a Land Cruiser SUV," and has a new album.)
CBS  David Letterman's Top Ten
(Top Ten Highlights If This Guy's Life Were Broadcast.)

Tuesday August 15 00

NY Times  Seeing Pessimism's Place in a Smiley-Faced World
(Psychologist decries the growing "tyranny of the positive attitude." Maybe she's right and whining has its place, or maybe she's afraid of a dwindling practice?)
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National Post  The good thing about being 60
(Let us examine the alternative.)
LA Times  Amid Prosperity, Many Kinds of Poverty
(Writer frets, "What is our prosperity for?")
London Telegraph  The best bathtime of them all
(Japan may be changing fast, but they lead the league in bathing in style.
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BBC  Sainthood for last tsar
(Unaminously voted in as martyrs.)
Discover Magazine  Do Parasites Rule the World?
(Forget Scream 3: "Tour a California salt marsh with biologist Kevin Lafferty and get a lesson in humility. Parasites outnumber free-living species four to one–and while we blindly go about our business, they're busy orchestrating much of nature.")
Salon.com  Garrison Keillor: Dear Mr. Blue
(Garrison answers that age-old question that we have all asked at one time or another: "I am married, have kids and am in charge of the household. I am also writing a novel and am at a critical point. Should I live in the woods for a few months to finish?")

Monday August 14 00

London Telegraph  'I was Howard Hughes's child bride'
(Terry Moore turned down the 1st cover of Playboy, allowing Marilyn that honor, but she did win a chunk of the crazy man's estate.
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BBC  Lefty workers 'at risk of injury'
(Left handed people are getting hurt at work using right-handed tools.)
London Sun  Cancer linked to abortions
(Scientists said the chance of developing the disease might be 30 per cent greater.)
Sydney Morning Herald  Rice-paper barriers fall as geisha attract women
(Geisha club owner states: "It's a sign that women are becoming stronger, but I cannot help feeling sad for men that this has happened." For another article on change in Japan visit our archive page and jump down to Thursday March the 9th for an article from Salon.com "Hello kitties--Japanese schoolgirls are dressing up like tiny sex dolls or black American soul divas.")
Melbourne Age  Saints above! Some of the church's choices defy belief
(A light hearted look at patron saints. I wonder if the net has been assigned a patron saint yet?)
London Megastar  Curse of spice girls
(Third tragedy in a year hits super group. Can anyone say "karma"?)
Melbourne Age  Why is Britney queen of pop?
(She can't sing; she is not a great dancer; there are prettier girls down at any mall....so, why is she so popular?  For a companion article visit our archive page, and page down to a Thursday February 24 article from Slate "What's important about Britney Spears." )
Slate  What Is a "Jewish American"?
(Why is Joe Lieberman a "Jewish American" and not an "American Jew"?.)
NY Times  Eugene J. McCarthy: When Conventions Mattered
(Former Senator and presidential candidate Eugene J. McCarthy calls the conventions of today "weeklong infomercials."
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Toronto Globe and Mail  My vacation with Thomas Mann
("Would you want to spend a week of your precious summer indoors, discussing Death in Venice? If you answered yes, join the club")

Sunday August 13 00

UK Observer  Soya alert over cancer and brain damage link
(Will health food stores start selling hamburgers now?)
London Times  My escape from the clutches of the therapy cult
(Britain's version of Ann Landers busts out of years of therapy with a vengeance.)
London Times  Rebels of the superhighway
(Article draws parallel between the Easy Rider spirit of the 60's and the digital revolution lead by Napster.)
NY Times  Download Interrupted
(Talk with Napster attorney David Boies, who also led the government's attack on Microsoft. He tells this story to end the interview: "One guy sitting, on a plane, a few rows ahead keeps turning around and eyeballing me. He waves and says, "Hey, aren't you Napster's lawyer?" I tell him I am and he announces, "Napster's lawyer is on the plane!" Everyone in coach cheers. Right then I knew the record industry was in trouble. ")
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London Daily Express  Loretta Young: Hollywood's Catholic with a guilty secret
(She adopted a baby months after her affair with Hollywood's biggest star.)
London Daily Express  We weren't lovers - Dusty wasn't my type
(Her longtime manager and roommate denies having an affair with Dusty Springfield.)
London Times  Gorilla Girls
(Why are all the top primate experts women? )
NY Times  The Ethicist by Randy Cohen
(Weekly ethics column tackles a problem that has perplexed us all at one time or another: "I had my glasses tightened, for free, by the local optician. Later I noticed he had tightened them too much and cracked the lens. Should he pay for a new lens?")
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Saturday August 12 00

Salon.com  Christopher Hitchens: President Clinton: Thumbs down!
(There is a companion 'Thumbs Up!' article on our departing prez, but this article, short for Hitchens, shows Chris at his best. Few can rant with such pure venom. Here he describes George W's acceptance speech: "Imagine: An ignorant and spoiled mediocrity opens his acceptance address by comparing himself to George Washington!")
NY Times  Cheney's Dallas Company Giving Him $20 Million Retirement Package
(This was the likely pitch: "And, honey, if we should lose, we'll still have the 20 mill and we can run for the hills." If one looks at Gore, George W, and Cheney closely enough, it'll bring on nausea. Too bad we can't vote only for Lieberman.
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London Times  Clinton, doing it his way to the last note
(Writer anxiously awaits Clinton's goodbye speech this Monday, knowing it will upstage anything Gore will do.)
London Star  Bill 'has sex disease'
(The latest rumour re our President. A good thing Hitchens didn't got his hands on this one. Note to our Canadian and other non-Yank readers: US election headlines will be kept to a bare minimum. )
NY Times  The Jewish Tipping Point
(Orthodox vs. non-Orthodox Jews face off in Beechwood, Ohio, and we're not talking hockey.)
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BBC  Elegant beauty Loretta Young dies
(Oscar and three time Emmy winner has been making headlines since 1930.)
London Times  If we didn't have the Shroud, we'd have to fake it
(Writer tries to trace the Shroud's history, but gets lost in the "hokum." For more articles re The Shroud, tab down to Tuesday, July 18 for "US News and World Reports Mysteries of History.")

Friday August 11 00

BBC  EMI dismisses price-fixing claim
(As "The Artist Formerly Known As" pointed out yesterday in article listed below, the record companies have been jamming consumers for years.)
London Times  Axe top of the pops
(Writer bemoans the current state of the guitar solo.)
London Telegraph  'Why hedonism became my creed'
("Sir Michael Levey, former director of the National Gallery, talks about life with Brigid Brophy and losing his faith." An interesting article that's even more so when read with the London Times Tuesday, August the 1st article listed below: "Why I have lost faith in God --Famed Catholic British shrink loses his faith and wonders what to do next." For an interesting twist, you can visit our archive page and tab down to a Detroit Free Press Sunday, June the 3rd article "More women heed call to second career -- faith." It appears that while men are losing their faith, women are moving in the other direction.)
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Manchester Guardian  Riddle of the relic
(New book claims Turin Shroud may be genuine after all. If so, maybe the two fellas in the articles directly above can regain their faith.)
Beliefnet  Lama Surya Das: Ask the Lama
(If There's No God in Buddhism, Are Buddhists Atheists?)
Washington Monthly  Sex in the Digital City
(Yet another "the internet is alluring and dangerous" article. We looked at this subject yeterday as well in a London Sun article.)
NY Daily News  Colleen won't playmate
(Latest Survivor plank-walker also claims "affair" on island was fake.)
Chicago SunTimes  Roger Ebert Reviews
(Current Ebert movie reviews.)
Nerve.com  This Week in Sex
(The week in review.)
San Franxisco Examiner  David Letterman's list
(Top 10 ways to make "Big Brother" more exciting.)

Thursday August 10 00

BBC  Cleese makes internet history
(60 yr old actor stars in first movie made exclusively for the internet. Can you believe John Cleese is 60 yrs old???)
Yahoo  Prince excited by Napster, slams record companies
(The Artist Formerly Known As comes out squarely in Napster's corner.)
London Sun  Thousands 'addicted to the internet.'
(When will we read a headline that shouts:'Thousands addicted to reading'? For a saner view of internet use, visit our archive page and tab down to the Wednesday, May the 24th article from Canada's excellent paper, The National Post: "Cybersex addiction is a virtual myth." )
London Times  The Reduced: Don Juan
(That old paramour is deconstructed.)
Salon.com  Bachelors out of luck
(In Saudi Arabia, bachelors cannot get viagara.)
NY Times  Japan, Feasting on Whale, Sniffs at 'Culinary Imperialism' of U.S.
(Excellent quote sums up cultural differences: 'Telling the Japanese not to hunt whales is like telling the British to stop having their afternoon tea or denying French people their pâté.'
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Village Voice  You’re Going Too Far, Baby
(Here's some really ugly imperialism : cigarette makers are targeting 3rd world countries, such as Burkina Faso, to make up for dwindling sales in the West.)
London Telegraph  Smokers 'denied children'
("One in 10 social workers who specialise in adoption has turned down potential parents because they smoke."   Telegraph login: e-portals  password: e-portals)
Gimme Shelter   "Gimme Shelter": The true story
(Thirty years hence, the movie is still deeply disturbing and provoking debate. I watched it two months ago and still think it whitewashes the Stones.)
USA Today  Colleen sweep: Last Pagonger gone
(The Alliance marches on.)
San Francisco Examiner  David Letterman's List
(Top 10 invisible guy pickup lines.)

Wednesday August 09 00

BBC  The Man with Two Brains
(It's not a Steve Martin movie. This guy really has two brains, and the right hemisphere is "kinda dumb.")
Fast Company  Why Aren't There More Women at the Top?
(Three books reviewed and the bottom line seems to be that male execs have stay-at-home wives to take care of those kiddies.)
American Outlook  Cool Planet, Hot Politics
(Atmospheric physicist warns us to beware of politicians who push the global warming theory: there is not yet "present convincing evidence that global warming poses any environmental threat.")
Salon.com  Clinton and Presley: All shook ups
(Veteran rock critic Griel Marcus points out the similarites that bad boys Clinton and Presley share.)
Slate  Kicking Butts
(Does the Nicotine Patch work? A long time staff smoker gave it a try.)
National Post  Is Susan evil or just a good ol' girl?
(Weekly Survivor roundtable makes their prediction of the next to exit.)
USA Today   Dissecting 'Survivor' by the numbers
(947 viewers answer three questions. Whom do you want to win? Whom do you think will win? Whom do you least want to win?)
San Francisco Examiner  Japan 'Millionaire' Quiz Show Flops
(Culture Clash.)
Toronto Globe and Mail  Submarine raised after 136 years
(The first submarine to sink an enemy warship is raised from its watery grave and it's a Confederate vessel from the US Civil War and I have to read a Canadian paper to find out about it???  Very interesting.)

Tuesday August 08 00

London Times  She taught me to love
("Jill Ashley Miller was devastated when she gave birth to a Down's syndrome child. Forty years on she is thanking God.")
BBC  Earth's largest living thing discovered
(It's in Oregon and it's 220 acres big. No, it's not Bill Clinton's ego.)
London Sun  Clintons live a 'sexless lie'
(Now there's a surprise.)
Melbourne Age  When dying is a good career move
(Jerry Garcia has been dead five years, but that hasn't stopped the Grateful Dead from releasing more and more material.)
NY Post  DiMaggio's dying words: "I'll finally get to see Marilyn."
(Married only 9 months, heartbroken till the day he died.)
Time Magazine  The Game Of Risk
(Cover article discloses how Tiger Woods dismantled and rebuilt his swing after winning the Masters in 1997. He won only one tourney in the following 19 months. Last May his new swing finally kicked in and he won 10 of his next 14 tournaments.)
Salon.com  Meet "Big Brother"
(Meet Robert Caplain, the show's senior story producer.)
National Post  Big Brother's Jordan blames it all on editing
(In Europe the voters kicked the duller members off the show, but in America it's been the troublemakers who have gotten the boot. CBS now has to find a way to make bland interesting.)
National Post  Psst ... Colleen wins, pass it on
( CBS is the Keeper of the Truth and they ain't tellin'.)
Washington Post  Ann Landers
(They RSVP'ed that they would attend a wedding. It rained and they didn't go. They got billed $130.)

Monday August 07 00

BBC  Sir Alec Guinness dies
(Obi Wan Kenobi passes at 86.)
Sydney Morning Herald  Five Questions with Tony Bennett
(Tony obliges with five answers.)
London Times  Generation bland
(Author assails the latest adult generation for having no passion.)
London Times  An anatomy of bland
(The Accessories of The Bland Young Things defined.)
Salon.com  Japanese coupling
("Japanese women who want to meet foreign men, and vice versa, pay 2,000 yen ($18.19) admission, play a series of ice-breaking games to get in the mood, meet some new people and as the flier says, 'Who knows, find a special relationship.'")
Toronto Globe and Mail  Japan anxious for male heir to Chrysanthemum throne
(Talk about pressure! 15 centuries of succession is on the line.)
NY Times  A City Hears Poetry in the Naming of Streets
(Can you guess which one of the largest cities in the world has streets that are named Forest of Light, Mirror of Water, Forest of Miracles, Garden of Memories, Tree of Fire, Forest of Secrets, Sea of Dreams and Heart and Soul?    Times login: e-portals  password: e-portals.)
Salon.com  But isn't it against the law?
(Salon.com' s technology writer, Scott Rosenberg, tackles the most commonly asked email question he gets concerning Napster. I particularly like the analogy he makes to the 55 mph national speed limit.)
National Post  Busy little Beatles
(A list of the major headlines the Beatles are making, thirty one years after their breakup.)
National Post  Taking the shine off Lennon's halo
("Latest biography paints musician as suicidal and violent." Odd, I thought we had already been through this in 1988 thanks to ALbert Goldman's biography?)
Toronto Globe and Mail  Why Cat Stevens had it all wrong
(Writer laments that this former pop star, turned Islamic fundamentalist, toured Canada twenty years ago and railed against all forms of music. She was 12 and believed him. Former pop star has since recanted and now has his own web sight. For other articles about the former Cat, go to our archive page and look up Friday 7/14 "Israel bans former pop star," Monday 5/22 "The Cat's comeback," Thursday 3/23 "Cat Steven's releases children's album," and Wednesday 3/22 "Former pop star joins the fight for gay curb." )

Sunday August 06 00

NY Post  Spotlight -hog Clinton can't help himself
(This Prez will not go quietly into the night.)
London Telegraph  Falling sea level upsets theory of global warming
(Nobody really knows.   Telegraph login: e-portals  password: e-portals)
NY Times  No Kidding: Does Irony Illuminate Or Corrupt?
(If you like Seinfeld, The Simpsons or David Letterman we already know your answer.   Times login: e-portals  password: e-portals)
NY Times  The Changing Face of Catholic Education
(10 yrs ago Catholic Schools were dying, but things have changed..   Times login: e-portals  password: e-portals)
San Francisco Examiner  POW forgotten in psychiatric hospital for half a century
(Russian staffers mistook patient's Hungarian for gibberish.)
LA Times  When an Apology Isn't Enough to Right Old Wrongs
(A perfect example would be the Hungarian mentioned above.)
San Franciso Examiner  David Letterman's list
(Top 10 signs you've nominated a dumb guy)

Saturday August 05 00

NY Post  Roseanne's strip stakes
(47 yr old TV star needs to be seen.)
NY Times  A Tale of Two Holocausts
(Scathing review of Norman G. Finkelstein's "The Holocaust Industry" in which the author claims that Israel exploits the Holocaust.   Times login: e-portals  password: e-portals)
MetroTimes  Richard Goldstein: Celebrity Bigots
("John Rocker, Dr. Laura, Eminem, Don Imus … Why is hate so hot?")
NY Times  Tattoo You
(Weekly ethics column by Randy Cohen which tackles that age-old question which has bothered us all at one time or another: "I am entering college and am a lesbian. Should I tell my new roommate?"   Times login: e-portals  password: e-portals)
Chicago Tribune  Jane Bryant Quinn: Long-distance fee debate sparks 'phone rage'
(Rates per minute may be going down but monthly fees and directory assistance charges are making up the difference for the telecoms.)
LA Weekly  A Pirate’s Life for Me
(How Napster restored one writer's faith in the Internet.)
San Francisco Examiner  David Letterman's list
(Top 10 announcements that would cause a panic at the Republican National Convention.)

Friday August 04 00

NY Times  A Prewar Beauty? Oh, the Thrill of the Chase
(A review of SEX AND REAL ESTATE "Why We Love Houses" By Marjorie Garber in which Garber argues that real estate now occupies the place in baby boomers' brains once reserved for sex: "they fantasize not about the perfect mate, but about parquet floors and 12-foot ceilings, and kitchens with Viking stoves."   Times login: e-portals  password: e-portals)
Melbourne Age  The town that loves Lucy
(Lucille Ball was born in Jamestown, NY and they celebrate her memory every year with not one but two festivals.)
Firstscience  Do Women Prefer 'Manly' Faces?
(On July the 10th, last month, we cited Love at First Scent, an article which discussed the importance of scent in courtship. Now a new study claims that the shape of a man's face has much to do with the choosing of a mate. Next month we will no doubt discuss the role of feet in courtship.)
UK Independent  'Earn as you surf' schemes are 'worthless'
(This just in: There is no gold at the end of a rainbow!)
London Sun  Big Brother Mel and Andy kiss
(The British version of Big Brother is tearing up the ratings as chemistry between Mel and Andy builds. Meanwhile the American version snoozes along. CBS execs must be kicking themselves)
National Post  Survivor producers have a laugh on hackers
(In a nice twist, CBS put up a secret page on their web site that fingered Gervase as the ultimate winner, then they sat back and waited for hackers to find it.)
Nerve.com  This Week in Sex
(The week in review.)
CHicago SunTimes  Roger Ebert Reviews
(Latest Ebert reviews)

Thursday August 03 00

Editor's Note: Happy 50th Birthday, My Darling Wife!!!

Melbourne Age  JFK 'seduced Marlene Dietrich'
(He was the dashing 45 yr old President of the United States. She was an aging major movie star and had been a friend of his father's some 30 years before that fateful afternoon in 1962. Sounds like a Jackie Collins novel.)
BBC  Men 'have a biological clock'
(Of course we do. It's called the "two minute warning.")
London Telegraph  Use your loaf
(Tuscan cuisine is hot and here are enough bruschetta recipes to keep you busy for weeks.
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LA Times  Pork Rinds Have Some Dieters in Hog Heaven
(From Tuscan bruschetta to pork rinds, the sublime to the ridiculous.)
London Daily   A flock of birds may have caused the Air France Concorde to plummet at 250 mph.
(Memo from Legal Department: Squash all stories of the plane falling apart. Blame it on...er...uhmm....hmmm....Birds!)
Salon.com  Court order: Release Robert Downey Jr. from prison
(Sentencing judge's orders were not clear, so Downey will soon be out after serving one year.)
National Post  Gervase's fate blows all the theories
(Rumored to be the ultimate winner of Survivor, Gervase instead walks the plank.)
San Francisco Examiner  Jordan Is Kicked Off 'Big Brother'
(America votes the birthday troublemaker out.)

Wednesday August 02 00

Salon.com  Secrets and lies
(Mom fully believes that multiple vaccines made her perfectly normal child autistic.)
BBC  'Flirting' grocer's arrest triggers riots
(An Iranian shopkeeper was arrested for flirting with a judge's wife. Rioters immediately burned cars in the streets, and a local court-house was set on fire. All because the man really wasn't flirting. He was cross-eyed.)
BBC  The man who can't recognise faces
(Think you have it bad? "Lincoln Holmes can see perfectly well - but he cannot recognise his own face.")
Melbourne Age  Strange but True
(A surprising twist on the old "Not tonight, Honey, I have a headache" saw: New study claims decreased sexual behavior triggers headaches!)
ABC News  Can Alcohol Abusers Drink in Moderation?
(You wouldn't expect sex addicts to become celibate, would you?)
Seattle Times  Mount St. Helens: Weighing the recovery
(Still no sign of old Harry Truman.)
London Times  A place to let go
(The Archbishop of Canterbury denounces Western culture for being beset by a "reign of sin" caused by an obsession with an unholy trinity of therapy, education and wealth. Okay, when he becomes the Archbishop of Bangladesh, maybe I'll believe him.)
Nerve.com  StarFirsts
(Continuing series of stars' first times.)
National Post  If only Sean hadn't learned his ABCs
(Weekly Survivor roundtable tries to fathom Sean's brain.)
LA Times  Analyze This
(Shrinks analyze The Sopranos.)
San Francisco Examiner  David Letterman's list
(Top 10 signs your neighbor is the Survivor winner.)

Tuesday August 01 00

BBC  Ill wind 'killed dinosaurs'
(Add a new theory to the disappearance of the dinosaurs. A new Chinese study claims "dinosaurs farted non-stop," damaging the ozone.)
BBC  Napster revival sparks online frenzy
(Traffic is up 4-5x, despite the September the 12th extension.)
London Times  Why I have lost faith in God
(Famed Catholic British shrink loses his faith and wonders what to do next.)
LA Times  Life Without 'Sin' May Spell Death of Sect
(The Russian Fyodorovtsy sect takes the "sex as evil" concept to its logical and zany conclusion, thereby signing its own death warrant.)
Village Voice  Portraits in Prejudice
("William," who got booted off of Big Brother last week, turns out to be Hiram Ashantee, the national field marshall of the New Black Panther Party for Self Defense, and the Panthers are not at all happy that he flirted openly with white women on national tv.)
Salon.com  Garrison Keillor: "Dear Mr. Blue: Advice for lovers and writers"
(Garrison's weekly advice column answers the age-old question that has bothered us all at one time or another: "My ex-boyfriend has had therapy for bipolar disorder and says he's feeling better and is better able to handle his emotions now that he's on antidepressants. Should I give it another shot?")
National Post  A real survivor, after all
(Jenna, booted from Survivor last week, is mulling over posing for Playboy this week.)
National Post  Whassup with that?
(Did you notice how quickly the Budweiser "Whassup!" commercial was parodied in other ads?)

Monday July 31 00

Salon.com  Coping after the Concorde disaster
("Consoling odds: Your chances of dying in a domestic plane crash are still less than one in a million.")
Toronto Globe and Mail  Is pop culture eating itself to death?
(Interesting theory: "The more pop culture talks about itself, the less it will say. Self-reference can be fun, and even subversive, but you eventually run out of things to refer to.")
LA Times  Extreme? You Haven't Heard Nothin' Yet
(Writer looks back through history and sees many better tales than the one Survivor is selling.)
London Times  Hong Kong plays for high stakes
(A temple of wealth and conspicuous consumption is also a city of rag pickers.)
London Times  Gambling in Macau
(It is an island off the coast of China. It belonged to an European power. It is reverting back to Chinese rule, but it is not not Hong Kong.)
London Telegraph  Man on a motorcycle
( Sonny Barger, patriarch of the Hell's Angels, is now 61 and hopes to send his little girl to private school.
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Sunday July 30 00

London Telegraph  Outrage over Concorde cruise celebration
(Have you wondered how the Germans who made it to that cruise ship reacted?  
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London Times  The fine art of Googling
(Google might just be the best search engine online. Certainly, it and Alltheweb.com are the fastest, but Google is a little better organized.)
ABC News  Spam, or Free Speech?
(91 percent of email users receive spam and most don't want it, but the issue is, how do we get rid of it without stomping on free speech and, thereby, squelching the "sacred" spirit of the internet?)
Salon.com  All in the family
(Talk about a hard sell: "Dick Cheney's lesbian daughter, Mary, is expected to stump for the GOP ticket.")
NY Times  On Language: Beseechment
(Jack Rosenthal pinch hits for Bill Safire and examines the currying of favor for money.
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CNN  Macau exhibit celebrates contemporary Chinese artists
(For more on Macau, check out this article  from The Economist, April 5, 1997.)

Saturday July 29 00

Melbourne Age  Millions jam Napster
(net.Headlines has been warning users for weeks that end was imminent. Imminent is now set for 3 a.m. EDT.)
CNN  Appeals court grants Napster reprieve
(The appelate court, however, disagrees and allows Napster to cling to life.)
London Telegraph  Out of control
(Interview with author of "Passing for Normal," a story of living with Tourette's Syndrome.   Telegraph login: e-portals  password: e-portals)
NY Times  Pilgrim's Progress
(The former Cat Stevens answers questions and dodges the Salman Rushdie incident.   Times login: e-portals  password: e-portals)
National Post  Ready to wear a toe ring? Here are a few must-knows before you take the plunge
(If there is a "ring-finger" is there a "ring-toe"?)

Friday July 28 00

Melbourne Age  Net-savvy music fans flock to Napster alternatives
(The genie's out of the bottle now.)
BBC  Making music and money
(Even the BBC knows this much: "Shutting down Napster will make little difference to the amount of pirated music available on the internet," and to prove this point they list a dozen Napster copycats.)
NY Times  For Many Online Music Fans, Court Ruling Is Call to Arms
(The switch is on, and the first choice is Gnutella  Times login: e-portals  password: e-portals)
Sydney Morning Herald  Kiwi holy child gives up his Gameboy
(7 yr old Karma Kunzang of New Zealand has been tabbed as the living "Venerable Pong Re Sung Rap Tulku Rinpoche.")
London Times  Life after Walter
(Jack Lemmon, in a touching tribute to Walter Matthau: "Sometimes people say things to me and I'll think 'Oh my God, wait till Walter hears this!' - I forget for a minute that he's not here.")
Chicago SunTimes  Ebert Reviews
(Roger Ebert's latest movie reviews )
Asiaweek  The Power to Go On and On
(Asians are living longer. Yes, it has something to do with tofu.)
Nerve.com  This Week in Sex
(The week in review.)

Thursday July 27 00

BBC  Napster shut down
(Temporary injunction shuts down Napster at midnight Friday, Pacific Daylight Savings Time.)
Salon.com  Why the music industry has nothing to celebrate
(A thousand new Napsters are blooming.)
London Times  Concorde: It's simply a Neanderthal with wings
(Columnist argues that the Concorde is an economic dinosaur.)
London Times  The fear of flying - and how to treat it
(It is one of the world's most common phobias. And with good reason!)
Prometheus Online  The Final Frontier
(Former Astronaut Joseph Allen recounts his experiences on the space shuttle.)
National Post  Jenna sunk by Sean's alphabetical obsession
(Survivor continues picking off one person a week. Sean, using his inane alphabetical system, voted for Jenna's expulsion, lamely adding that "I really don't think this will be the deciding vote." What an idiot.)

Wednesday July 26 00

London Sun  Nun bonked by her Bishop
(Cops had to shoot the tires out.)
London Sun  Brits watch TV for 14 yrs
(And now for some depressing news: 60% of Brits watch 5 or more hours of TV a day.)
The Scotsman  Stalinist gulag is recreated as theme park
(Lithuanian to open "Stalin's World," and, no, it's not a joke.)
National Post  A visit to bobo ground zero
(Review of the "Bobo" concept as set forth in "Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There.")
Salon.com  Will the court shut down Napster?
(Better download those favorites quickly. The net.window is closing.)
Salon.com  Survival of the dullest
( Why do people wait in freezing weather outside the Today Show windows and end up on camera for maybe seven seconds?)
National Post  Is the Evil Alliance soon to fracture?
(Witty, weekly Survivor roundtable disses Greg.)
MSNBC  The Latest from Mr. ‘Survivor’
(Survivor creator is interviewed and maps out how it all will end.)

Tuesday July 25 00

Melbourne Age  Rock's greatest moments on TV named
(VH-1 claims Rock's greatest TV moment occured on February 9, 1964.)
Salon.com  Garrison Keillor: "Dear Mr. Blue: Advice for lovers and writers"
(Garrison's weekly advice column tackles that age-old dilemma: "My husband left me for the suicidal folk singer/welfare mother down the street. I know I should miss him, but I really don't. Am i evil and shallow?")
Sydney Morning Herald  Chinese learn to love the motor car
(500 million bicycles plus 13 million vehicles equals 83,500 deaths on the highway a year.)
London Times  Analyse your intuition
(A forensic expert points out that knowing how to read other people may save your life .)
Salon.com   "Big Brother" -- the story so far
(Gossipy episode-by-episode guide.)
Slate  Gandhi and Tiger Woods
(What can't Tiger do?)
Toronto Globe and Mail  The perils of high-tech eye surgery
(Heard this ad on the radio yeterday, "Tiger Woods had this surgery with us, threw away his contacts and has won three Major tourneys since." But, of course, there's a side we don't hear about in the ads....headaches and halos at night.)
Nerve.com  The Science of Sex
(Weekly column examines latest theory that ties left-handedness to homosexuality. For more, see the London Times  July the 7th article below: "Homosexuals more likely to be left-handed.")
NY Times  Mackinac Island Loses Power
(The island where cars are not allowed hasn't had power for three days.....warm beer, anyone?   Times login: e-portals  password: e-portals)

Monday July 24 00

NY Times  Your Kids Are Their Problem
(Many Boomers are without kids, and some are without hearts.   Times login: e-portals  password: e-portals)
NY Times  The Ethicist by Randy Cohen:
(Weekly ethics column asks that age-old question: "My friend has joined an an ethics society in order to meet women. Is this kosher?"   Times login: e-portals  password: e-portals)
Sydney Morning Herald  Happy days is a 60s experience for modern woman
("Many women are happier in their 60s than in their younger years and feel they have left stormy seas behind them, according to new research."  On the other hand, my Great-Aunt claims it all goes sour once you hit your 90's!)
London Telegraph  My story seldom told
(Paul Simon may have a new album coming soon, but let us not forget Art Garfunkel.   Telegraph login: e-portals  password: e-portals)
Utne Reader  Romancing the Ruins
("Detroit’s abandoned buildings lure risk-takers and soul-preservers")
UK Independent  With so many options, it's no surprise women love the single life
(Women now favor hedonism at the same rate as men.......about time, eh?)
Toronto Globe and Mail  Welcome to the dead language society
(Language Departments in the universities ar being pared to the bone, while money is being poured into Computer Departments.)

Friday July 21 00

London Times  Philip Howard: "Plus ça change, mes enfants, as the good Cardinal might have said"
(Britain's premier wordsmith muses about the state of the French language and ends his article with a fabulous pun.)
London Telegraph  Beijing swings
(China is a very weird place....child beggars on the street...dwarves in top hats...aristocratic gambling clubs open to Westerners that are built over bomb shelters, etc.   Telegraph login: e-portals  password: e-portals)
Salon.com  Rescued by the Word
(Milford, Michigan undertaker and superb essayist Thomas Lynch recommmends five poetry books to turn to when "the constant blather and brouhaha of this connected, telecommunicating, 24/7 news cycle televised, dot-com dementia" gets you down. For other articles by Lynch check out the Wednesday, July the 5th NY Times article below. Also our archive page has these Lynch articles: Thursday June 15th Salon.com and Thursday May 11th London Times.)
Nerve.com  This Week in Sex
(The week in review.)
Slate  Math for Jeopardy players
(How contestants regularly blow their final bet.)
ZDnet  Study: Napster boosts CD sales
(Attention Capital Hill: People who d/load music love music and buy music, and probably vote, too.)

Thursday July 20 00

BBC  Paedophile cases haunt the church
(One paedophiliac priest wounds the entire Church.)
National Review  Attacking the Pope--from the Right
(You can't please everybody...or apparently anybody. We knew the Left despises JPII, but check out this condemnation from a Conservative :"The Curial Cardinals and this Pope uttering their sweeping condemnations, their breathtaking simplifications of complex questions — a kind of Oprah Winfrey show with vestments and candles — one longs for the humility of silence." Ah, yes, bring back the silent days of Pius XII!)
Sydney Morning Herald  Being accused of selling out is nothing new to Metallica
(Napster foe, Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich: "The older we get, we become more and more selfish about what we do.")
Britannica.com  Suit Filed over Cruise Line Pollution
(Those ads for cruise ships never show this.)
Salon.com   "Big Brother" to air six nights
(Will also air Wedensday nights in an effort to ride Survivor's coattails.)
National Post  It all ends in tears for Greg
(The next few week wil show the Survivor Alliance methodically mowing down the opposition. The fun really starts in 4 weeks when they have to start cutting their own.)
NY Post  Castaway snubs "Early Show"
(Greg, the cocky, ex-Survivor, will grant no interviews.  But, the bigger issue is: when will Richard go? That will be a sweet moment.)

Wednesday July 19 00

BBC  Mandela: 82 years young
(Mandela jokes, "I feel almost 80 again.")
London Express  What makes a woman sexy
(On the other hand, "Pussy Galore", Honor Blackman, is 74 and looks great.)
Salon.com  Bombshells away
(And then there's Mamie Van Doren, star of that famous 50's flick "Sex Kittens Go to College.")
Hindustani Times   Tragic realism
(India is still a place where 4 yr old girls are "married" off to 6 month old dogs.)
NY Times  CNET buys rival Ziff-Davis for $1.6 billion
(Meanwhile, In America businesses marry each other.   Times login: e-portals  password: e-portals)
London Telegraph   Don Giovanni fails to seduce
(Want to read a negative review? No? Want to read a VERY VERY negative review??
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London Sun  Lesbian nun is Big Brother Hit
(A lesbian former-nun? Somehow i think the British version of Big Brother took more chances and will, therefore, be more successful.)
Newsweek  Why “Big Brother” is a Bust
(yeah, where's the Lesbian former-nun?)
Salon.com   "Big Brother" -- the story so far
(it's still not too late to jump in. Here's an episode-by-episode recap.)
Nerve.com  Two on One
(A Yale professor and a writer critique Survivor.)
Detroit Free Press  Charmed, I'm sure: With enough personal magnetism, you can get away with almost anything
(Survivor  Gervase Peterson has done nothing on the show. He can't cook. He won't work. He runs like a girl. Yet he has not been voted off. How does he get away with it?.)
National Post  Who will the alliance pick next?
(Weekly Survivor roundtable makes its predictions. A fun read, but they've been wrong every time so far.)
MSNBC  Gephardt says he doesn’t want VP slot
(And America shrugs.)
NY Post  Ex-wife: Newt knew I was ailing
(This pompous little jerk who so righteously trumpeted "family values" in his "Contract for America," not only left his wife of 19 yrs for another woman, but knew she had M.S..)

Tuesday July 18 00

US News and World Reports  Mysteries of History
(Intro page to excellent historical mystery section with articles about Shakespeare, the Sphinx, The Shroud of Turin, and the like.)
BBC  Mike and the Mechanics singer Young dead
(Remember their '89 hit "The Living Years" , a song about being unable to tell one's father he is loved before the father dies?)
Salon.com  Garrison Keillor: "Dear Mr. Blue: Advice for lovers and writers"
(Garrison's weekly advice column tackles that age-old question: "My husband broke his promise. He said we could grow old together and sit on a porch someday in our rockers, telling old jokes. Wrong. He died. Now what?")
Rolling Stone  Eminem Shouts Back About His Lyrics
(The hip-hop superstar from Warren, Michigan answers his critics.)
Spin.com  The sins and sorrows of Marshall Mathers
(Spin follows Eminem from 9 Mile and Van Dyke, where this editor once was mugged, to London)
Vibe.comThe Beatles Awarded "Greatest Song" Honor
(Elite song writers choose their top ten fave songs...and Eminem didn't make the list. The winning song? Here's a hint: "There are places I remember...")
Wired  Music Swappers Write to Congress
(Consumers want their Napster.)
Salon.com  Emotional vampire
(Conclusion of two part article in which online lover becomes online Iago overnight.)
National Post  Gervase or Rudy? Some think they have it cracked
(Theories abound over who will be the sole Survivor.)
USA Today  'Survivor' fans try to flush out secret
(Similar article to the above, CBS will find it nearly impossible to keep this secret.)

Monday July 17 00

National Post  Reagan's Alzheimer's in rapid decline
("There is a special place in heaven for caregivers." )
Sydney Morning Herald  Hotmail sends e-mail addresses off to admen
(Maybe this explains why I keep getting an email entitled "university diplomas.")
BBC  Go-ahead for new web names.
(possible new names include .travel .shop .banc)
Salon.com  The online succubus
(Interesting Part One of an article in which the writere describes how her perfect online lover became her emotional vampire, her worst nightmare.)
Salon.com  A Napster lawsuit laid to rest
(Internet exec thinks that "subscription music" will ultimately be the answer to the Napster dilemma.)
National Post  No moment too dull for the Internet's Big Brother cams
(Gone to the Big Brother webcast site yet? You can hear people snoring or watch them wash dishes.)
Toronto Globe and Mail  Greed: What would Plato say?
(The better question is: What would Plato think of Survivor ?)
NY Times  Was Freud a Minivan or S.U.V. Kind of Guy?
(The better question is: What would Freud think of Big Brother ?   Times login: e-portals  password: e-portals)
National Post  Ladies who lust
("'New' thinking suggests girls just wanna have ... sex")
Slate  Sammy Sosa is a big baby
(Sosa is a mighty fish out of water...he's in a team sport, but he's not a team player.)

Sunday July 16 00

BBC  Spike Lee slams Patriot 'disgrace'
(Although it's getting slammed about by critics,<The Patriot keeps making money)
Manchester Guardian  Blood is thicker than dogma
(Former Jehovah's Witness traces the JW's confusing stance on blood transfusions.)
Detroit Free Press  Mitch Albom: Parents often drop ball in youth sports
(Author of Tuesdays with Morrie writes about the father killing another father incident that occurred last week in Massachusetts.)
London Express  King of the guillotine who never quite lost his head
(Alice Cooper talks about keeping it level.)
National Post  Streisand's spawn
(A funny piece about Streisand and Celine Dion: "If Barbra was the monster who exemplifies the garishly self-obsessed diva, then Celine Dion is her mutant child.")
NY Times  Saving the World, One Sexy Teen at a Time
(Hilarious dissection of the awful, but hugely popular, TV show Maury.   Times login: e-portals  password: e-portals)
ZDnet  Do you have Napster envy?
(How to be Napster without being sued, that is the dilemma.)
Detroit Free Press  Susan Ager: Feeling blue over idea of green ketchup
(Ah, how the march of progress disturbs some people.)
National Post  Racing toward a gory death
(Writer runs with the bulls at Pamplona, where 13 runners have died since 1924.)
NY Times  NY Times Navigator
(A perfect item for bookmarking, this is the list of web resources that reporters at the Times use.   Times login: e-portals  password: e-portals)

Saturday July 15 00

Melbourne Age  Napster: the great refrain robbery
(A good intro article re Napster.)
CNN  Accordionists put the squeeze on Washington
(a most underrated instrument.)
London Telegraph  Yours - with attitude
(Remember Lisa Bonet from The Cosby Show? She's back!   Telegraph login: e-portals  password: e-portals)
ZDnet  Adding Hotmail to Outlook Express 5
(Do you use Hotmail for its versatility, but hate its slowness on your home computer? Here's a solution.)
Salon.com  The "survivor" who wasn't.
(It's one year tomorrow that JFK Jr died)
Salon.com  JFK Jr.'s fatal mistakes
(The final moments, step by step)
Salo.com  Deconstructing the Kennedys
("Deconstruction" is in, and who better than Camille Paglia to rip down the Kennedys?)
NY Post  Jesus Christ was a Commie: Castro
(Note to Fidel: That's always been one of Christianity's greatest strengths, Its ability to morph to the times.)
AP  Former Cat Stevens denies that he supported terrorists
(I never want to hear the former "Peace Train" again.)
CNN  'Petticoat Junction' star Meredith MacRae dead at 56
(Her father was the late actor-singer Gordon MacRae, who played the lovesick cowboy Curly in "Oklahoma!" Her mother is actress-comedian Sheila MacRae ("The Honeymooners"). )
NY Times  Consumed by Race
(As part of The Times' excellent presentation on Race in America, we get to compare, in a rather unique way, White and Black kitchens and living rooms.   Times login: e-portals  password: e-portals )

Friday July 14 00

Sydney Morning Herald  Family's chain letter nightmare goes on and on
(In 1989 a young boy diagnosed with cancer made a chain letter plea for mail in order to get into the Guiness Book of World Records before he died. Today he is well and in his 20's and wants it all to stop...but the letters, 150 million of them so far, show no sign of letting up.)
Sydney Morning Herald  Grave vandals scandalise Skynyrd
("Sweet Home Alabama" boys are actually buried in Orange Park, Florida.)
Sydney Morning Herald  Geri's friction upsets Catholics
(Ex-Ginger Spice Geri Halliwell frolicks at a Gay Right's Concert in Rome with a psuedo-Pope.)
BBC  Israel bans former pop star
(The former Cat Stevens of Peace Train  fame is not welcomed in Israel. If you want to check up on the former Cat today, check out his web site, "Mountain of Light") 
Melbourne Age  Cancer linked to lifestyle
(Here's the genetic stats: prostate cancer at 42 per cent, colorectal cancer at 35 per cent and breast cancer at 27 per cent. )
London Times  An ugly secret
(Stonehenge may have been most recently used as a state execution site.)
CBS  William Pleads for Polygamy; Jordan Justifies Monogamy
(On Big Brother there are so many women but only one William. That will probably change next Thursday when America votes William out.)
Salon.com   "Survivor," so far
(Miss Survivor one week? Here's an episode-by-episode guide to the Pagong and Tagi Castaways, including this week's rather shocking expulsion of the popular Gretchen.)
Nerve.com This Week in Sex
(Weekly review is on hiatus, so the editors have put together a "best of the past Year in Sex" column to appease us.)
London Telegraph  History turned into porn
(Writer attacks The Patriot as being obscene in its outright lies.    Telegraph login: e-portals  password: e-portals)
Manchester Guardian  The moral maze
(The makers of The Patriot  lamely answer their critics.)
PC World  Napster at Work? Better Not
(File sharing at work can be a security risk.)

Thursday July 13 00

NY Post  A whole lot of squabblin' goin' on
(Little Richard, 65, Chuck Berry, 74, and Jerry Lee Lewis, 65, are touring together, but never cross paths.)
London Telegraph  Easy rider's new wheels
(Another sign that the Boomers are aging: Peter Fonda, of Easy Rider fame, opens next week in the kids movie "Thomas and the Magic Railroad."  Telegraph login: e-portals  password: e-portals)
NY Daily News  British Bad Guys Accent-uate the Negative
(What do "Mission: Impossible 2," "The Patriot," "Shaft," "Gone in 60 Seconds," "Chicken Run," "X-Men," "Bless the Child," "Turn It Up" and "Bedazzled" have in common? )
Salon.com   O.J. online!
(Note to film makers: here is an evil dude who does not have a British accent)
Salon.com  Star Sex
(In this excallent rant, writer Cintra Wilson sizzles right from her her opening sentence: "We vicariously live our pathetic lives fawning over celebrities; one minor evening in a star's life is worth the prom nights of a million office temps." Do not miss her one sentence mauling of "actress" Meg Ryan at the bottom the the fifth paragraph.)
London Times  Should I take the plunge and buy a digital camera?
(Pro and Con checklist. This editor did not need a checklist and loves his Olympus 2020Z.)
Detroit Free Press  Mitch Albom: Vitale's lesson: Never waste a moment of life
(Tuesdays with Morrie author misses an assignment.)
National Post  Survivor shocker: Gretchen voted off
(Only the weak survive.)
Salon.com  "Big Brother," meet "Survivor"; "Survivor," meet "The Real World"
(9 rules for the making of a better Reality-TV)
Toronto Globe and Mail   The unpleasant realities of reality TV
(Critics are rubbing their hands in glee over Big Brother's  drop in ratings.)
National Post   Liam Neeson injured in motorcycle accident
(Invincible in the movies, taken down by a deer in real life.)
Salon.com  Agassi hurt in car accident, to miss Davis Cup
(They say that celebrity accidents come in threes.)

Wednesday July 12 00

BBC  Depardieu has heart surgery
(51 yr old actor is progressing well.)
London Times  The inner nerd
(Writer claims films today portray men as being inner-nerds.)
Salon.com  Metallica plays Capitol Hill
(Mettalica's drummer beats Napster.)
London Daily Express  We'll sue for return of relics say Hitler family
(Who would ever admit to being Hitler's relative, let alone sue for rights?)
Melbourne Age  Britons demand apology for 'The Patriot'
(As cited in Monday July 10's net.Headlines, Mel Gibson's latest epic The Patriot is not accurate. The Brits attack back :"With their own record of killing 12 million American Indians and supporting slavery for four decades after the British abolished it, Americans wish to project their historical guilt onto someone else.")
Salon.com  Brigitte Bardot asks pope to stop bullfighting
(The Pope Bullfighting? Sound like Papal Bull to me)
NY Times  TV Notes: 'Big Brother' Bounces Back
(One week in and the contestants are finally starting to show some spunk.)
National Post  Should it be 'unsinkable' Gervase Peterson?
(Writer predicts who makes the Final Four and who should be the next cut.)

Tuesday July 11 00

BBC  The world wide what?
(24% of all Brits intend to never get online.)
Washington Post  Diana Ross & Supremes Tour Canceled
(The public was not fooled. Diana, without Mary Wilson or Cyndy Birdsong, was not The Supremes.)
Salon.com  Garrison Keillor: "Dear Mr. Blue: Advice for lovers and writers"
(Garrison's weekly advice column answers that age-old question: "I am having a sexual fling with someone 20 yrs older than I and he treats me like dirt. Why do I do this?")
Salon.com   "Big Brother" flopping in the ratings
(Writer claims that ratings have nose-dived because "-- it's about 10 of the most excruciatingly boring bozos in the history of TV." )
National Post  The lights are on, is anyone watching?
(What can CBS do to spice Big Brother  up? Probably not much. It looks like they goofed majorly by picking likeable, banal contestants. )
Nerve.com  The Science of Sex
(Brazilian gynecologist claims women need not menstruate.)
NY Post  Jackie foresaw son's death
(When JFK Jr interviewed that famous ear-chomper Mike Tyson, Tyson told him that he was "crazy to fly,' and then eerily added, "John, if you are going up there, don't take anybody you love with you.")

Monday July 010 00

BBC  Vote could be lowered to 16
(a truly bad idea.)
NY Post  Angry Pope slams
(Pope is upset at huge Gay Pride festival, that mocked him severely, was held in Rome. )
Toronto Globe and Mail  Chameleons and codas
(Imagine growing up hearing, but your parents are deaf.)
Melbourne Age  More than a kiss
(so many types...from the peck on the cheek of your least favorite aunt, to the bonding during soaring, it's mind boggling.)
London Times  Why it pays to avoid the wet fish
(Oddly enough, while the above article examines the kiss, the London Times looks at the handshake.)
London Times  The feel-good history that misleads America
(In Mel Gibson's current film about The Revolutionary War, The Patriot, the director has inserted a scene in which the evil British officer herds a village population into a church, then burns it. This actually happened, by the way, not during The Revolutionary War, but by the Nazis in 1944. )
London Times  A new Black death
(Here's a shocking stat: over 70% of all AIDS patients live in Africa, and it's getting worse.) London Telegraph  No more Mr Nasty Guy
(John McEnroe is, oddly enough, tennis' good guy now.   Telegraph login: e-portals  password: e-portals)
Salon.com  Greil Marcus: Real Life Top Ten
(Legendary rock critic reviews ten events.)
Nerve.com  Love at First Scent
(Roundtable discussion about the role of scent in courtship, included is a quote from our favorite part of the Bible, The Song of Solomon.)
Detroit Free Press  Oh, brother: Latest voyeur show is dull
(Don't worry, things will sizzle.)

Sunday July 09 00

Wired.com  Catchy Clothes Are Skim-Tight
(Skim.com is a site which puts a number on it's clothing...a number that corresponds with an email you are assigned when you buy the clothing. This way, you can get even more spam, or maybe the date of a lifetime.)
NY Times  The ethicist by Randy Cohen
(Weekly ethics column addresses that age-old question that we all have faced: "I met and married my foreign bride in a 2 week whirlwind romance. Now that she has US citizenship, she won't sleep with me. What should i do?"   Times login: e-portals  password: e-portals)
London Sun  Di's bodyguard: Diana's at peace now.
(He should let her rest in peace by shutting up.)
London Sun  Kour She's just tee-riffic
(Anna Kournikova practiced for her doubles semi-final at Wimbledon in a t-shirt and jogging bottoms that did not match but "still looked smashing". This fawning better not happen in August at the US Open.)
London Megastar  Venus loves race role
(Venus and Serena should be the ones the press is going nuts over. They are the real things.)
London Sunday Times  Hollywood actresses find it pays to be gay .
(Study says it pays to be a lesbian actress.)
Washington Post  Addicted to Solitaire
(Here's something that is no surprise: "That stupid card game in Windows apparently is the biggest waste of time in all of the computing universe. ")
Washington Post  Tom Shales: ‘Big Brother’: A black eye for CBS
(Shales takes a mighty swing at Big Brother but whiffs.)

Saturday July 08 00

London Times  They'll be calling love today - it would be more honest to shout sex
(Martina's day is over and some don't like tha era of Anna, Venus and Serena. )
UK Independent  We should ban computers for one day a week
(Hmmmm....that would mean a day off for net.Headlines.)
NY Times  On Language by William Safire
(Weekly language columnist recommends books to take along on summer vacation. He also points out that since 1988 all of the major manufacturers of the product now spell it "ketchup" not "catsup."    Times login: e-portals  password: e-portals)
NY Times  Summertime Dues br>(the pointless summer job as ritual.)
UK Independent  Napster: the law is on our side
(Obviously these people have taken the Captain of the Titanic as their inspirational guide.)
London Sun  Woman vicar had sex in pew
(Her unsuspecting husband sat nearby.)
NY Post  Peta's new Survivor beef: Slain Chickens
(Peta wants Survivor II meatless. Hey, Peta-heads, the chances of that are zero.)

Friday July 07 00

Salon.com  Bulging brains -- and breasts
(Ever notice how tartily computer game heroines are dressed?)
Nerve.com  This Week in Sex
(The week in review.)
London Times  Homosexuals more likely to be left-handed
("While homosexual men are only 34 per cent more likely to be left-handed, homosexual women have nearly twice as many left-handers as heterosexual women.")
London Telegraph  The name of the game is to choose extremely carefully...
(Naming your child has great implications states British shrink. Attention, please, all parents naming their children "Tone" and "Chase."   Telegraph login: e-portals  password: e-portals)
Salon.com  Napster death match, Round 3
(Better get your favorites d/loaded fast.)
Slate  eBay or the Highway
(10 million users....4 million offerings....things are bound to go wrong.)
Salon.com  "Survivor": The story so far
("An episode-by-episode guide to the Darwinian high jinks of CBS's island castaways.")
Slate  The Survivor Consultant, Part 2
(Why does everyone hate Richard ? It's not because he's gay.)
NY Times  'Big Brother' Proves Another Big Hit for CBS
(It's not too late to jump in and join the voyeurs.   Times login e-portals  password: e-portals)
NY Post  Reality" TV may bite- but it sure makes for great TV
(Writer defends Survivor and reality TV. )
National Post  Big Brother is watching - and you can tune in
(Writer compares watching Big Brother to watching paint dry. )
London Times  Welcome to Prole TV
("The first episode of Big Brother in America this week left Joanna Coles appalled - but riveted." )

Thursday July 06 00

BBC  How the brain registers love
(A test that can determine if a person is faking love may be in our near future.)
Sydney Morning Herald  Anna K says Hurley is 'ugly'
(She's not nice...she is not a great tennis player, but she owns the media.)
London Sun  Kournikova rains supreme
(Next week Britain regains its senses.)
Salon.com  Side-locked but not sidelined
(Is going down on a woman kosher?)
Toronto Sun  Dear Val
(Irate readers respond to previous letter in which a man complained about "having" to stimulate his woman. One letter, for example, replies: "Most women would run through a wall for a guy who gives them a loving, powerful orgasm or two!")
NY Post  CBS unveils sister series of Survivor
(3 months...10 people....2 bedrooms...1 bathroom...no exits...hidden cameras everywhere....no communication with the outside world...this should be fun to watch.)
National Post  Joel dumped as Survivor tribes ready for merger
(Will the dorky competitions now end?)
National Post  Richard says celebrity made him a target
(Barely back from the Island, Richard is already being sued...such is the price of being a Survivor.)

Wednesday July 05 00

Salon.com  "Survivor": The merchandise
(Amusing piece in which the writer demands action figures or, at the very least, a Survivor cereal.)
National Post  Is Greg a coconut aficionado or just nuts?
(Weekly round-table predicts the next Survivor to leave..)
National Post  If Survivor were real, they'd all be dead by now
(The writer has also noticed that the women continue to shave their legs. )
NY Post  The right place but the sarong guy
(writer feels "affair" between Colleen and Greg is totally contrived and illusory.)
Detroit News  'Big Brother' will try to be another 'Survivor'
("What do you get when you cram 10 people into a house in Los Angeles, cut them off from the outside world, videotape them day and night and put the video on TV five nights a week? ")
Detroit Free Press  Watch out for 'Big Brother'
(A sensation in Europe, the American version starts tonight.)
Slate  The Religion Gene
(Molecular biologist muses about a connection.)
Nerve.com  Two on One: Media Orgy
(Long-term users debate the effect of cyberporn.)
NY Times  A Man's Right to Choose
(Milford, Michigan undertaker and American Essayist Thomas Lynch points out the contradictory position that states men have no say in ending a pregnancy, but must pay support after birth.
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London Telegraph  'They told my parents I was dead'
(Actress, and lead female voice in current cartoon-movie Chicken Run, was a victim of a vile hoax.
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Tuesday July 04 00

BBC  Streaker storms Anna Kournikova match
(The most interesting things about this story are the photos of the silly "serial" streaker.)
London Sun  They think it's Kournik-over
(For as long as Anna Kournikova is still alive in the doubles at Wimbledon, the Sun will run daily pics of her in action...a public service!)
London Sun  Anna's thigh and mighty
(More pics of Anna. One in a $3,000 Dior dress, another of her sitting with boyfriend, hockey star Sergei Federov.)
NY Post  Good sex worth the weight
(Attention Anna Worshippers! Nobel Prize winner states that more fat boosts endorphins - the natural mood-enhancing chemical - and may also hike levels of a hormone linked to sexual desire.)
BBC  Breath test 'can diagnose schizophrenia'
(One percent of the population develops schizophrenia.)
London Telegraph  The internet can be a dangerous place
(Teen socialite gets seduced by a net.creep and then her family and friends also act creepy.   Telegraph login: e-portals  password: e-portals)
National Post  Italy's heritage 'quietly crumbling'
('Art restoration in Italy is in a mess.')
London Telegraph  Junk food, Eurotrash, booze - Dad's place is brilliant
(Writer moans about her ex'es effect on their kids: "Recently, I urged my daughter to invite her friends round more often. 'Oh, but they much prefer going to Dad's,' she explained. 'They get so much more free alcohol.'"   Telegraph login: e-portals  password: e-portals)
National Post  The Bedroom Baroness
(How to be an internet sex columnist? This columnist's education began in a Belgian castle with a sadomasochistic husband.)
National Post  Napster tells its side of story to the judge
(Better download while you still can.)
Slate  Big Brother: The est Session From Hell
(CBS's newest vouyeuristic show debuts tomorrow, after Survivor.)

Monday July 03 00

Editor's note: Happy 24th Anniversary, dearest bobo!!!   I Love You!
Stay Free Magazine  After breaking up with someone, what do you do with each others' stuff?
(thank you for 24 wonderful years, sweetie!)
London Telegraph  Happiness is separate bedrooms
(Pay this writer no mind, sweetie. There will be no separate bedrooms.   Telegraph login: e-portals  password: e-portals)
Toronto Globe and Mail  A vacation from motherhood
(Enjoy you "vacation" up there in academia, darlin'...the rugrats and i and a thousand pounds of laundry miss you!!)
MSNBC  Fatherhood rolls into the limelight
(Most of all, thank you for all seven wonderful children.)
Redbook  5 Sexy Things He's Dying for You to Try in Bed
(So, finish up these last four weeks and get on home, lover!   HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!!)

Sunday July 02 00

Detroit Free Press  Bathed in luxury: Bathrooms are all the rage in today's housing market
("We find today it's a requirement to have a very lovely bathroom in each house.")
NY Times  The Ethicist by Randy Cohen
(Weekly ethics column tackles that age old question, "Is it ok to take those teeny shampoo bottles from hotel bathrooms?"   Times login: e-portals  password: e-portals)
NY Times  Walter Matthau, Rumpled Star Who Created Comic Characters, Dies at 79
("The Ukranian Cary Grant" passes on.   Times login: e-portals  password: e-portals)
London Telegraph  The unlikely sex symbol with a caustic comic touch
(British tribute to Matthau.   Telegraph login: e-portals  password: e-portals)
NY Post  He was so much more than a grumpy old man
(Excellent look back at some of Matthau's films.)
Excite.com  Tina Turner calls it a day after 44 years
(Legend will hang 'em up at the end of her current tour.)

Saturday July 01 00

NY Times  Frank Rich: Voyeurism for the Entire Family
(TV critic examines the new voyeur shows such as Big Brother  whcih will follow Survivor on Wednesday evenings. Big Bro will have 10 Americans locked in a house for 90 days and the cameras will be running all the time. Yes, even when they are in the bathroom.   Times login: e-portals  password: e-portals).
Melbourne Age  The man who invented Rock'n Roll
(Interview with Sam Phillips who made Rock, but made his fortune elsewhere.)
Melbourne Age  Two mums, one double standard
(More lesbian couples are adopting, but there are still many hurdles to get past.)
BBC  Bee swarm hits town
("Attention shopppers, 20,000 bees are right here, right now.")
London Times  Vegetarian growing pains
(What to do when your teenager decides to become a vegetarian.)
London Sun  They think it's Kournik-over
(She may have been bounced from the singles, but Anna Kournikova is still alive and well in doubles.)
NY Times  On Language by William Safire
(Tribute to the late Frederic Cassidy of the Dictionary of American Regional English.   Times login: e-portals  password: e-portals)

Friday June 30 00

BBC  'Avoid aspirin' to prevent heart disease
(Study claims taking aspirin as a preventative measure is not worth the risk.)
London Times  Sub's Law of Newspaper Editing (No 28): The best headlines will never fi
(Philip Howard examines the various Murphy's Laws, including one re headline writing.)
London Telegraph  Farewell to riches of the earth
(A good example of a poor headline. In this article, former Saudi oil minister Sheikh Yamani forecasts an oil bust, but the headline seems to suggest otherwise.   Telegraph login: e-portals  password: e-portals)
London Times  The golden fleece
(The art of the con.)
Detroit Free Press  The Eminem interview: Fame leaves sour aftertaste
(Be careful of what you wish for.)
London Times  Minimal comfort, rejection and no privacy? I'll take it
(The British version of Big Brother , the latest voyeuristic tv program, is slated to start soon and the Brits are getting excited. The American version also will start up soon and will follow Survivor on Wednesday evenings on CBS.)
Manchester Guardian  Myths and madness: on the road with the Beats
(Long time follower of Ginsberg, Burroughs, et al punctures a few myths.)
NY Post  Is Anna throwing her career away?
(NBC commentator Bud Collins says of Anna Kournikova, "I used to know her when she was a tennis player.")
Nerve.com  This Week in Sex
(The week in review.)
London Telegraph  Why I don't act my age
(Writer claims that "Our parents were old at 50, but not us." True, but maybe that's because they had to fight in a World War while the baby boomers have coasted?   Telegraph login: e-portals  password: e-portals)
National Post  Steaklets, juice boxes and not a coffee to be had
(Writer hangs with 60,000 Seventh-day Adventists.)

Thursday June 29 00

London Times  'I'm sinking . . . I'm just dead'
(Preview of upcoming Vanity Fair interview with imprisoned actor Robert Downey, Jr.)
Pandomag.com  Won't get fooled again? Wanna bet?
(Writer savages the rock group The Who with this opening sentence "Next week The Who kicks off its 2,373rd farewell tour." )
London Telegraph  Stone on a roll of his own
(Rolling Stone's drummer, Charlie Watts is interviewed about life with and without the Stones.)
Pandomag.com  Just another yellow brick in the road
(Writer listens to Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" while watching a muted "Wizard of Oz" to discover if the reputed sychronization is just another stoner myth.)
London Express  The dropout making the music industry shake all over
(Nice friendly profile on 19 yr old Napster founder Shawn Fanning.)
Spin.com  Trading Spaces
(Yet another Napster article.)
Manchester Guardian  Rich live longer, poor die younger in a divided world
(This is news?)
Toronto Globe and Mail  Proposed milk merger goes sour
(a headline writer's dream.)
London Express  Wonder pill lets women conceive at sixty
(Editor's note to wife: Honey, skip this article, please!)
Toronto Globe and Mail  What's underneath the dirt and rags?
(Writer finally finds a Baby Boomer he does not despise....a bum!)
CBS News  The Origins Of Survivor
(The British version put 36 people on a remote Scottish island for a whole year.)
CBS News  Island Dairy farmer voted off
(Was the latest Survivor castoff rejected because he failed to perform necessary tasks or because fellow tribe members grew weary of his religious preaching?)

Wednesday June 28 00

BBC  Big Brother unleashed by Channel 4
(Look out Survivor, here comes Big Brother and it's a whole lot steamier.)
Melbourne Age  Lost in cyberspace
(Virtual online games, such as Everquest  and Asheron's Call, are stealing some people's lives.)
BBC  Anna: Tennis's one love
(As reported in yesterday's Detroit Free Press Mitch Albom column below, Anna Kournikova has taken Britain by storm. You also get to look at the bra billboard that has helped her onslaught.)
London Megastar  Kournikova white out
(Not all Brits are crazy over Anna. Devout British Muslims in Bradford have whited-out the bra billboard.)
London Sun  Grab hold of sexy Anna's bra
(Look-alike Anna contest with the winner to receive a bra, as worn by Anna on her now-famous billboard.)
London Times  Simon Jenkins: Man created hysteria - and it was not good
(Jenkins is not buying into the human genome hype. )
Nerve  Starfirsts
(More in the continuing series of stars first times, including one from that wonderful story teller Spalding Gray)
Salon.com   "Survivor": The story so far
(Miss out on the Survivor craze so far? Here's a guide to help you at the water-cooler. )
National Post  One cool cookie
(Writer rhapsodizes about her favorite Survivor. It's the nut with the nutty phone)
National Post  Will sex buy Colleen some extra time?
(Humourous weekly roundtable discusses Survivor and Colleen playing her trump card. She is, by far, the sexiest woman on the island, but has little else going for her. )
NY Times  TV Notes: 'Survivor' and CBS
(CBS figures out how to milk Survivor.   Times login: e-portals  password: e-portals)
Toronto Globe and Mail  Rock is dead, long live rock
(Rock critics in the 50's were predicting its demise within five years. Those critics are now probably all dead.)

Tuesday June 27 00

Salon.com  Garrison Keillor: Dear Mr. Blue: Advice for lovers and writers
(Garrison's weekly advice column answers that age-old question: "The graduate student my friend is dating has the body of a porn star, but he's her professor. Should I warn him that he's risking everything he's worked for?" )
BBC  Battle of the sexualitites
(Middle East sex secrets revealed at the 1st pan-Arab conference on sex in the Middle East. )
Nerve.com  The Science of Sex
(Weekly column examines herpes. )
Nerve.com  Chicken Soup for the cock
(Nice book review of "Lesbian Secrets for Men" has this excellent advice: "if you learned to come by masturbating under the warm water tap in your bathtub, you will have a hard time replicating that technique on a date.")
Salon.com  Sex as an extreme sport
(Writer, wanting no boundaries in his marriage, discovers this is not Europe.)
Detroit Free Press   Mitch Albom: Brits hit bottom in match with Kournikova
("The truth is Kournikova has never won a WTA event.")
BBC  Midnight sun celebrations kill 28
(Binge drinking is becoming a huge problem in Northern Europe. )
Sydney Morning Herald  Putting steel in velvet gloves
(Between Guy and Gay, "The Wussy Boy Chronicles" are out.)
Sydney Morning Herald  You call that a church?
(The battle between traditionalists and modernists in the Church extends all the way down to the architecture.)
London Telegraph  Mine's a billion dollars - to go
(Catholic billionaire Tom Monaghan wants to give it all away.   Telegraph login: e-portals  password: e-portals)
London Times  Ziggy's stardust rules among the young pretenders
(Bowie seems somehow to be untouched by time.)
Village Voice  Piss, puke and prizes
(For those who like the bizarre, I bet you will.com should be your cup of internet tea.)

Monday June 26 00

Melbourne Age  What happens when Daddy's little girl grows up?
(Teenage girls have a harder time talking to their fathers than do boys.)
Melbourne Age  Jerry Hall pities Mick Jagger for his womanising
(Earth to Jerry: Isn't that how he found you?)
National Post  CBS's Internet properties get boost from Survivor
(Did you ever see that mediocre film "ED TV"? That is where we are headed.)
Manchester Guardian  Fat old men come out of the closet
(Old men sing the blues. It's not just young women who suffer from poor body image. )
Time Magazine  Preacher, Teacher, Nag: Dr. Laura Speaks
(TIME interviews Dr. Laura but holds its punches. )
London Sun  Mr Mary Poppins dies
(The actor who played the father in Mary Poppins  has died at 83.)
London Express  I didn't see the sun, but I saw the light
(For the 1st time in years, Stonehenge was opened to the public for the Summer Soltice and 5000 gathered to see the sun rise. However, Mother Nature had other ideas.)
Salon.com  Griel Marcus : "Real Life Rock Top 10"
(Veteran from-the-hip rock critic reviews 10 things as only he can.)

Sunday June 25 00

Detroit Free Press  Mitch Albom: "There's no justice with death penalty"
(OJ got off; Gary Graham died. It's all about money.)
Detroit Free Press  Terry Larson: "Whites avoid black movies"
(White people would rather see Tom Cruise in a bad action movie than Samuel L Jackson in a good one.)
NY Observer  Rex Reed: "Dumb and Dumber: Carrey’s Both … The Chicken Who Got Away"
(Reed warns his readers about Jim Carrey's newest film, calling it "Kindergarten Cinema 101 for the Mentally Challenged," but it does no good as the movie still outpaced all others for the week.)
NY Times  The ethicist by Randy Cohen
(Weekly ethics column tackles that age-old question "Was i wrong to switch the dial, when no one was looking, at a local restaurant to turn to a commercial free station ?"
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NY Post  Dr Laura: Gay blasts made me a sob sister
(A prime example of the perp as victim.)
BBC  Crop circles mystify Russian farmers
(Ever wonder why these 'crop circles' tend to occur in the out of the way places?)

Saturday June 24 00

Melbourne Age  Who wants to be a millionaire?  (Bankruptcies are rising as people spend, spend, spend.)
Jerusalem Report  Islamists attack 'hidden messages' in Coke and other 'pro-Israel' brands
(I buried Paul.)
Al-Ahram Weekly   The architecture of the global medina   (Writer theorizes about the importance of the world's tallest building being in Kuala Lumpur, not Chicago or New York.)
Slate  Dang! He's Still Alive  (The tabloids keep hoping but 97 yr old Bob Hope just won't die.)
NY Times  William Safire: On Language  (Safire examines strategic partnership.   Times login: e-portals  password: e-portals)
NY Times  Please Deposit 72.4 Cents   (Ever try deciphering a phone bill? .   Times login: e-portals  password: e-portals)
National Post  Web site deduces next three castaways thrown off island  (CBS trips up over a Survivor promo.)
National Post  There's a chef in my fridge!  ("TV chef James Barber once walked away from a woman he was "head over heels in love with" because all he found in her fridge was a can of mouldy beans.")

Friday June 23 00

Bloomberg  Salon.com Typifies Demise of `Content' IPOs  (Salon.com is editorially excellent, but a financial fiasco.)
London Times  Oxford denies Blair an honorary degree   (We in the States give honorary degrees to Rodney Dangerfield and baseball players, but at Oxford the Chancellor has refused to give one to the British Prime Minister because "Blair possesses a second-class mind." )
Hartford Courant  Ask Me Baby One More Time: Did You Ever, Like, Get A Bug Up Your Nose?   (Somewhat humourous actual transcript of a Britney Speers interview and, no, a bug never flew up her nose, but a guy did jump on stage once, took off his shirt and scared her!!)
CBS News  Survivors Say Aloha To Ramona   (nice, albeit self-serving, article. )
NY Post  Celeb Survivor poll: Kathie Lee gets Heave-Ho  (I woulda booted Rosie O'Donnell.)
ABC News  Petite PC — That’s the Tiqit   (What do you do with a matchbox PC that can get you online and costs $1400? You smuggle it into church!)
Nerve.com  This week in sex   (The week in review. )
Chicago SunTimes  Ebert at the movies  (Trying to decide between taking the kids to the cartoon Chicken Run or the new Carrey flik  Me, myself and Irene ? Find out which one Roger rips.)

Thursday June 22 00

BBC  Coke moves into North Korea   ("The first thing we do is get some Coca-Cola in here!")
London Times  TV curb on thin women to help anorexics  (The commission has agreed to survey "the degree of diversity in shapes of women in TV programmes".  In other words, look out Ally McBeal.)
London Times  Magazines add weight to war on superwaif models   (Interesting movement underway in the U.K.. We in the States could learn from this.)
Newsweek  Will a Woman Ever Become President?  (Some women are hoping Gore will lose, so Hillary can be the next front-runner, should she beat Lazio in November.)
London Times  CV: Matt Groening   (Third major U.K. paper to serve up a The Simpsons tribute this week.)
London Times  The quest for super vision   (This is the 1st time that net.Headlines has linked four articles in one day from the same paper. This speaks for the quality of The London Times . In this article, the best paper in the world reports on the coming of "enhanced vision." )
London Express  Now Hanoi Jane has signed up for the God squad  (Jane Fonda has found God, worships at a black Baptist church and lives in a spare room in her daughter's house in Atlanta, Georgia. What the article fails to mention is that Jane cleaned up when Time Warner acquired Turner Broadcasting. )
National Post  Ramona voted off island  (I would have bounced that dude who keeps yappin' into the coconut phone.)
National Post  Viewers voted latest outcast most likely to be ousted  (but 63% of voters on CBS's  web site agreed with the Tribe members to send Ramona packing.)
Utne Reader  What's your emotional intelligence quotient? (Take the 10 question quiz to find out. I scored 100, making me "average.")
Sacramento Bee  William F. Buckley: "Peter McWilliams, R.I.P."  (Buck's tribute to his friend, poet and AIDS patient Peter McWilliams, who died "because they wouldn't let him have a toke." )

Wednesday June 21 00

BBC  BT claims patent on web links  (British Telecom has filed suit in the US against all ISP's, pointing to a 1976 patent, and claiming intellectual ownership to all internet links, including those on this page. Given the scope of the net today, let us hope the courts toss this one out.)
BBC  404 NOT FOUND  (Ever get this error message? A new software program might elimate it forever.)
London Times   What tattoos say about Britain   ("Tattoos reek of vulgarity and criminality, yet the bourgeoisie love them." Imagine 50 yrs from now when there will be a zillion old people with faded tattooes.)
UK Independent  Ecce Homer   (The 2nd UK major in two days, see yesterday's London Telegraph article below "Doh! Bart's unbeatable", that honors The Simpsons.)
National Review  Murder in California  (Do you remember the god-awful poet from the 70's Peter McWilliams? He has died of AIDS and cancer. He was busted for one ounce of pot, but the judge refused to allow mention of his AIDS or cancer. Without the medical marijuana to settle his stomach , McWilliams choked on his own vomit.)
Salon.com   "Virtual Tibet" and "The Search for the Panchen Lama"  (Book reviewer examines the West's fascination with Tibet. The Dalai Lama, by the way, wears Doc Martens. )
National Post  A crash course in tribal politics  (In this fun, weekly column a three person panel examines the Survivor mania and predict who will be tossed off Pulau Tiga tonight.)
National Post  Can the viewers survive this?  (Yet another weekly column about Survivor in which the reviewer wisely notes that, "More and more, the action on Survivor (what little action there is) seems to revolve around a single issue: food. ")
Detroit News  'Survivor': A view of life in a coconut shell  (Even more fodder for the water-cooler.)

Tuesday June 20 00

Sydney Morning Herald  The virtual brush-off   (Brandon and Joe were lovers for 3 yrs. They talked daily on the phone. Joe dumped Brandon. They never met.)
Salon.com  Garrison Keillor: 'Dear Mr. Blue: Advice for lovers and writers'
(Garrison's weekly advice column where he tackles that age-old question :"I love my boyfriend but he doesn't turn me on. Should I settle for a frisson-free relationship, or hold out for what my mother calls "movie love"? ")
Toronto Globe and Mail  A troubled, confused Japan cries out for change
("Everything in Japan is stupid")
NY Times  Cleanliness Isn't Next to Healthfulness  (Advertisers selling germophobia actually are making us sicker.    Times login: e-portals  password: e-portals. For more on this subject, visit our archive and page down to Wednesday, May the 24th "Dust bacteria may help stop asthma.")
London Times  Calling the shots   (She is ranked number twelve in the world, but Anna Kournikova clearly has the power.)
London Telegraph  Doh! Bart's unbeatable  (The Simpsons have been on the air for 10 yrs and are still brilliant.   Telegraph login: e-portals  password: e-portals)
London Telegraph  'Of course, I blame the parents'  (Writer loves her children, but not their friends.   Telegraph login: e-portals  password: e-portals)
Feed  1900 House  (Writer is not overly impressed with the latest voyeur TV show, served up this time by PBS.  See Yesterday's headlines for a Salon.com article that is slightly more favorable.)
Time  We Like To Watch  (Time examines Survivor  and the current craze to peep and comes up with one hilarious line "Losers are not actually executed, but Fox hasn't worked up a knockoff series yet.")
National Post  Reality isn't always that interesting  (Compares ABC's Making of the Band  with CBS's Survivor .)
Salon.com  The war over Dr. Laura  (The new hero of the Christian right is an Orthodox Jew. For some other net.Headlines articles re Dr Laura, visit our archive  and page down to Tuesday, May the 30th's "Rush Limbaugh and Dr. Laura Schlessinger: Why he could be a TV star, and she won't be." Other articles also can be found on Wednesday, May the 24th "Calling Dr Laura"; Thursday May the 11th "Canada slams U.S. host Dr Laura over gay comments "; and Sunday March the 12th "talk show host Dr. Laura curbs attacks on homosexuality")

Monday June 19 00

Melbourne Age  Hogan to make Croc Dundee III  (It's been 14 yrs since Croc I.)
Salon.com  PBS peep show  (Excellent article about the new voyeur shows like CBS's Survivor. PBS is picking up the British series of a year ago, The 1900 House. In this one " The family would move into a turn-of-the-century Victorian house that had been stripped of all modern amenities -- goodbye electricity, indoor toilets, central heating -- and restored back to the days of gaslit lamps, outhouses and coal-burning stoves. The family would have to observe Victorian modes of dress and entertainment, and eat and use only those foods and products that would have been available to a middle-class family in Britain in 1900.")
NY Times  CBS Finally Lures Coveted Young Viewers With 'Survivor'  (CBS finally sheds its Hooterville image.   Times login: e-portals  password: e-portals)
Manchester Guardian  Now North Korea invites the Pope   (First, the historic meeting with South Korea: then they invite the Pope. What's next? The Telletubbies live from Pyongyang?? )
Salon.com  Napster Sound Bite: Feelin' groovy  (RIAA's lawsuit against Napster reveals which tunes the Napster execs themselves downloaded and the list is revealing.)
NY Times  One Aspect of Messages on the Internet to Be Delayed  (In about a year, you will be able to recieve America Online's Instant Messages on ICQ.)

Sunday June 18 00

Newsmax   Reader's Digest Veers Politically Left   (Goodbye old friend.)
Montreal Gazette   Piracy-fighters miss point  (Columnist points out that rock group Metallica has benefitted in the past from bootleg recordings and mocks their crusade against Napster.)
Time   Got a Bone to Pick With 'Survivor'? Take a Number   (net.Headlines  monitors certain subjects, such as the Napster  controversy, very carefully. CBS' summer series 'Survivor' is another topic we will closely watch. In this article, Time notes PETA's silly objections to the contestants eating rats and then predicts future Survivor protests.)
MSNBC  Catholic bishops warn of Net pitfalls  (Church members will be asked to sign pledge cards annually for the next five years that commit them to rejecting media that produce immoral content and demean the dignity of the human person. Jerry Springer must be shaking in his boots.)
BBC   Computer 'geeks' are cool  (nerds no more.)
Boston Globe  The pursuit of reading   (Literary critic Harold Bloom despairs over the move towards computers and away from the printed page.)
Sunday Times  Love's old dreamer   (Nice puff piece about Brian Ferry. For a much more biting article re Ferry visit our archive and page down to Wednesday April the 12th to read "Bryan Ferry is still fantastically cool, rich and famous (and still as self-absorbed")
UK Observer  One girl in six hits puberty by age of eight   (now here's the shocking part: a generation ago the figure was 1 in 100.)
Manchester Guardian  The children are revolting   (Amusing article about the author's 11 yr old son. If you have a 9-13 yr old, you should r ead this.)
Bertc.com  World's 9 Worst Convenience Foods  (Excellent article, via Robot Wisdom, that lists the most vile foods fo und today on food shelves.)
ABC News  Facing a Man’s World   (They face derision....they reach glass ceilings...they sometimes sleep with superiors to reach uppe r levels....they are female hackers.)
UK Observer  Fat is a political issue   (I love this opening sentence: "When a man looks in the mirror, he sees someone thinner than he is; when a woman looks in a mirror, a fatter woman stares back." Check out yesterday, June the 17th, for an article from Canada's National Post on this very same subject: "Do I look fat in this swimsuit?".)
NY Times  The Ethicist by Randy Cohen   (weekly ethics column....read the 2nd question and answer. It is hilarious.  &nb sp;Times login: e-portals  password: e-portals)

Saturday June 17 00

National Post  Turning tables  (University nutrition professor, a critic of the now-popular low carb diet, tries it on as an experiment and is shocke d at the results.)
Wired.com  Hotmailers Getting Fat on Spam   (Why does Hotmail allow so much spam to get through? For example, I keep getting, day after day, an email entitled "University Diplomas.")
CNET  Study finds filters catch only a fraction of spam   (Whatever filter Yahoo is using, however, is keeping "University Diplomas" out.)
NY Times  On Language by William Safire   (Safire examines the hot phrase "hooking up."   Times login: e-portals   password: e-portals)
NY Times  What would cows think?  (Are you ready for orange or root-beer flavored milk? I'll pass.   Times login: e- portals  password: e-portals)
NY Times  Jules Feiffer, at 71, Slows Down to a Gallop   (Feiffer gives up his weekly strip.    Times login: e-portals  pa ssword: e-portals)
London Telegraph  Now I am a Jew  (Presto, Change-o!   Telegraph login: e-portals&nbs p; password: e-portals)
National Post  Do I look fat in this swimsuit?  (If you are female, the answer is "yes," regardless of body type.)
Excite.com  Herbalife founder died from accidental overdose  (Maybe you've seen the Herbalife ads stuck up on telephone poles, "I've lost 115 lbs!" This was the man behind it.)

Friday June 16 00

Melbourne Age  Paying for sex is to do with Mars and Venus  (Men try to explain the unexplainable.)
Manchester Guardian>  The truth about Honest Abe   (Two new books offer a different view of Lincoln. "Historians are excavating the 16th pre sident's sexual history with a zeal that makes Kenneth Starr look apathetic.")
Nerve.com  This Week in Sex  (The week in review.)
Salon.com  Internet sex infections  ("Investigators in San Francisco have quizzed people coming to an STD clinic, and discovered that 17 pe rcent have met a sex partner online in the last year.")
Village Voice  Savage Love  (Interesting experiment in which Advice Columnist decides to email answers, rather than publish in print, and immediately get s into a flame-war with 'Dan the Fan' who promptly turned into 'Dan the Stalker.')
NY Times  Foes Hone Strategy for Web Copyright Clash  (Napster hires the government lawyer who shot down Microsoft.  &nbs p;Times login: e-portals  password: e-portals)
Wired  Napster's Good? Bad? Er, What...?  (here's the inevitible study that concludes Napster actually encourages CD sales.)
Slate  The Last Computer Buyers' Guide  (Thinking of getting a new machine? Here's a handy guide with 13 useful tips, such as , "#3. Your new computer is already obsolete, but will still be good for the next four years. ")
Wired  Hotmail Clients Getting Steamed   (330,000 Hotmail users have been shut down for 10 days and counting.)

Thursday June 15 00

Sydney Morning Herald  The joys of sex and food - and Joyce  (Bloomsday is Friday.)
Sydney Morning Herald  Industry seeks quick end to Napster  (more on the RIAA motion to quash Napster.)
London Times  Will Internet pirates kill the record industry?  (interesting view re Napster as you can see from this quote: "Last week Michael Eisner, chief executive of Disney, even harangued the US Congress on the subject. Internet piracy, he told them, was nothing less than a threat to the Constitution. Oh, come off it, Mikey. The US Constitution is a many-splendoured thing , but where does it say that entertainment corporations have an inalienable right to make huge profits for ever more?")
Sacramento Bee  Carol Bayer Sager, Dick Clark say record companies must come to terms with Internet  (Songsmith Sager was shocked to see her o wn son using Napster.)
Manchester Guardian  Net record pirates 'will cost billions'   (Tens of billions minus billions equals tens of billions)
London Megastar  Net threat to pop fans  (The arguement here is that record companies, crippled by the internet, will stop promoting new a cts. It's a weak argument.)
National Post  Degrees of success  (Writer attends a college graduation and is struck by the good of ritual.)
BBC  Fat man, slim trousers  (half of all men wear trousers that are too tight. If you've been to the mall lately, you've seen it yourself.)< /font>
London Telegraph  Why is autism on the rise?  (Fingers are being pointed at the MMR vaccine. &nb sp; Telegraph login: e-portals  password: e-portals)
Salon.com  "Bodies in Motion and at Rest" by Thomas Lynch  (Michigan undertaker Lynch is becoming one of America's finest essayists. Another favorab le review of his book can be found at our archive. A May the 11th London Times article also raves about Lynch.)
Slate  Why the NHL Stinks—And How To Fix It  (In this surprisingly insightful article the writer states, "Sanctimonious God-squadders, when they're no t under indictment, are ruining the NFL; I have never heard an NHL player thank God for his help putting the puck in the net. ")
Toronto Globe and Mail  Managing what remains of Hendrix  (Jimi's sister, who was 9 when he died, manages the lucrative Hendrix legacy, and not everyone is happy.)
NY Times  Kraftwerk: Call Them the Beatles of Electronic Dance Music  (What an awful headline! Comparing the Beatles to Kraftwerk is almost as ir ritating as Kraftwerk's so-called music.   Times login: e-portals  password: e-portals)
National Post  Put your feet up, set a spell  (Humorous Canadian look at the American cable channelThe Nashville Network and its most p[opula r show, The Grand Ole Opry.. "By tuning into The Nashville Network's (TNN) Grand Ole Opry on Saturday nights, you're not just changing channels, you're changing decades.")

Wednesday June 14 00

BBC  Napster closure threat  (Don't put off downloading your favorite tunes!)
Salon.com  Courtney Love: "Napster's OK as long as we get paid"  (Courtney does the math and shows that record companies have been gouging artist s, "So the record company profit is $6.6 million; the band may as well be working at a 7-Eleven. ")
London Times  I'm Not Gay Enough, so how come I'm gay?   (Writer reads London Times article of May the 30th concerning "Are you gay enough?" and flunks, even though he is gay. See archive for 5/30 Times article.)
National Post  Is he or isn't he?  (single women explain their gay radar tricks. "I told her to go check out the washroom. Did he have Paul Mitchell hair products and bath bombs? If so, then he's gay.")
London Telegraph  I'm happy to stay mum, thanks. . .  (Pregnant writer objects to strangers touching her tummy, asking stupid questions and telling countless stories about epidurals and Caesarians, etc. What she fails to recognize is that this is not just her baby. It will be a member of the human race.   Telegraph login: e-portals &n bsp;password: e-portals)
Manchester Guardian  Cannabis helps keep fans calm   (The lack of soccer rioting in Amsterdam at the Euro 2000 is credited, in part, to t he availability of weed. )
UK Indpendent  Is it time to move on from the Holocaust?   (Interesting "pro/con" article.)
Melbourne Age  Sex or not on the first date?   ("Can't women just approach sex as men do, as a bodily function to be savored, with or without the complications of a relationship?" The answer, most times, is, "No!")
Salon.com  Big appetites in Big Sur  (Writer compares and contrasts after he and his girlfriend hear the loudest sex imaginable through motel walls .)
Sydney Morning Herald  Idle takes the Python songs out for a spin  (Eric Idle hits the road and ponders why Python's silly songs remain so popular. )
London Sun  Top Honour for British Screen Idol  (From "What's it all about, Alfie?" to Sir Michael Caine in 35 years.)
Salon.com  Survival of the Vilest  (net.Headlines pays particular attention to certain subjects, such as Napster. CBS' new serie s " Survivor" will also be closely followed. In this article, the writer is both compelled and revulsed. "Pass the Jiffy Pop! ")

Tuesday June 13 00

National Post  What's in their sock drawer?  (beware of telling a guest to "Help yourself to anything.")
Sydney Morning Herald  Bones tell of beheading at Stonehenge  (did you know that the name "stonhenge" means stone gallows?)
Melbourne Age  Start-up's chip will convert CDs to digital without a PC  (taking mp3's away from computers will be revolutionary.)
London Times  Tom Jones: how to be cool at 60   (What's going on here? In Britain, the Continent and Australia he is a bigger star than he has ever been.)
London Mirror  how all women play a secret - and not very nice - game with each other   (Women still judge themselves by their looks...so do men.)
Salon.com  Garrison Keillor: 'Dear Mr Blue: Advice for Lovers and Writers'  (Garrison's weekly advice column answers that age-old question: "My internet romance broke up. How do I now go about meeting real men?")
National Post  Romans knew how to have fun  (Commentator, admiring CBS's The Survivors, longs for a return to the good ole days of entertain ment, the Gladiators. Let's hope no TV execs read this column.)

Monday June 12 00

Salon.com  Greil Marcus: 'Real Life Top Ten'  (Long-time rock critic's latest review.)
Slate  Is Susan Sontag a Plagiarist?  (Everything comes from something.)
Detroit Free Press  The age of the innocence: Don Henley finds family life a cozy refuge in a cold, cruel world   (After 11 years, Henley's back and flying like an Eagle.)
Toronto Globe and Mail  Read Gord's mind -- he's a hip-hop hit  (Gordon Lightfoot's music is back, but you may not recognize it.)
Detroit Free Press  Desiree Cooper: Music on Web isn't piracy -- it's promotion (Pro-Napster article.)
NY Times  Andrew Sullivan: 'Dot-communist Manifesto'  (Another pro-Napster article. Author says Marxism has finally found a place to thrive....the internet.   Times login: e-portals   password: e-portals)
NY Times  William Safire: 'On Language'  (Safire looks at bundling.   Times login: e-portals   p assword: e-portals)
National Post  Sex education today sure is a hoot  (Author concludes that men are predators and women like to be wooed and that "No amount of How S tella Got Her Groove Back can change the biological basis of the fact that Hugh Hefner has gotten older but his girlfriends haven't.)

Wednesday June 07 00

Editors Note: Ed and his family are headed out of town to attend the graduation of their daughter Mary.  net.Headlines will return Monday, June the 12th. Until that time, Happy Headline Hunting!  There are plenty of headlines both here and on the archive site that remain current. Other url's worth looking at are:
Wired news from Wired.com
NewsMax a fine list of international papers
Robot Wisdom Weblog Jorn Barger's excellent page
Obscure Store and Reading Room Jim Romenesko finds the bizarre.
New Homemaker Lynn Siprelle's excellent site for parents and her companion page Diary of a New Homemaker  which is an excellent daily journal.

and here are two headlines "for the road."
Salon.com  Journey to the center of my bottom  (more boomer woes!)
Nerve.com  The Bedroom Interview  (John Water's cult icon, Mink Stole, has her say.)

Wednesday June 07 00

BBC  Tom still a sex bomb at 60  (Tom Jones won't fade away.)
Nerve.com  StarFirsts  (More in the series about stars first times, including Kirk Douglas and Kathie Lee Gifford)
Salon.com  faking it  (Is it ethical to fake an orgasm? Would most men even care?)
Slate  The End of Mystery  (Now that the third secret of Fatima has been solved, what's left?)
Toronto Globe and Mail  The riddle of the black holes  (It turns out there's plenty left to discover.)
BBC  Swapping without suing  (Programmers already have the next Napster ready to go and this time it will be next to impossible to stop.)
NY Times  Maureen Dowd: "Rescue Me, Please!"  (Columnist is dismayed by the messages in Women's magazines and TV shows: "Shop. Eat shrimp cocktail . Flirt. Get rescued."   Times login: e-portals  password: e-portals)
National Post  The world needs more alpha females  (Columnist answers Maureen Dowd.)

Tuesday June 06 00

NY Press  Marital Outfidelity & Unoriginal Sin  (Professor Tiger laments the disparity between the public and private real ities of adultery and then admires the Catholic approach---confession.)
London Times  Why women should never get married   (Author Celia Brayfield argues that men's infidelity means that any wife is doomed to a life of pain and misery. Maybe so, but who would kill the spiders?)
London Times  Survivor Dettori puts new life before racing   (Britain's top jockey survives a small plane crash that killed the pilot and tearfully declares he no longer cares if he races ever again. He wants to stay home, love his wife, play with their children and kill the spiders.)
London Telegraph  'I couldn't even go to his funeral'  (Woman mourns the loss of her lover, a Catholic priest who was driven to suicide because of his love for her.   Telegraph login: e-portals  password: e-portals)
National Post  When the face in the mirror is your mother  (call the plastic surgeon!)
London Telegraph  Try to appease your spine   (back expert recommends five exercises for those of us w ith back problems.   Telegraph login: e-portals  password: e-portals)
London Sun  Britney in £7m sex shock  (Spears vows to remain a virgin despite attempted bribe.)
London Sun  Heather: Paul knows I'm no £500 hooker.   (Sir Paul's new girlfriend defends herself.)
Salon.com  Garrison Keillor's 'Dear Mr. Blue Advice for lovers and writers'
(Garrison's weekly advice column in which he answers the timeless question: " A boy I dated in high school confessed to me he's gay, and now he wants to say I'm his girlfriend for his parents' sake. Should I play along?")
Detroit Free Press  Asteroid made Earth a wasteland   (There was no prehistoric Bruce Willis to save the Earth.)

Monday June 05 00

Melbourne Age  Carly Simon's cancer fight echoed in song  (Boomers used to write about love. Now, showing their age, they write about thi ngs like cancer.)
BBC  'Couch potato' kids risking health  (Report states that kids are not exercising, with teenaged girls being particularly inactive. Have t hey checked the local malls on a Friday night?)
US News and World Report  Body mass weighs in against childhood fat
(Your pediatrician has a new Body Mass Index waiting for your child.)
London Star  Crash suspect dies   ("A KEY figure in the Princess Diana car crash inquiry has been found dead in a burnt-out car." Start the conspi racy theories ....now!)
Fox News  F. Lee Bailey: O.J. Flunked Lie Detector Test   (That's because HE DID IT!)
NY Post  Steve Dunleavy: "Squeeze the Juice on perjury rap"  (OJ didn't just flunk the lie detecter test; he bombed it.)
US News and World Report  Napster: Is it sharing or stealing?  (Both!)
Newsweek  The Art of Darkness   (Nintendo does the inevitible and puts out a Mature game.)
NY Post  Kenny Chesney and Tim McGraw in stir  (Country music superstars arrested in bizarre incident. Police will not say if alcohol was involved.)
Detroit Free Press  Rapper Eminem arrested in brawl outside bar  (Rap superstar arrested in bizarre incident. No classical musicians were arrested yesterday, by the way.)

Sunday June 04 00

BBC  Snap Crackle and Milli-pop  (Ever wonder why unwrapping candy while at a concert is so damned loud? )
National Post  Celebrity diss and dat  (celebrity spats outlined, including James Earl Jones vs. Spike Lee and Cher vs. Bette Midler.)
NY Times  Randy Cohen: "The Gift That Keeps On Giving "  (Weekly Ethics column asks the question "Should I have accepted $100 to allow someone to cut in line?"   Times login: e-portals   password: e-portals)
NY Times  William Safire 'On Language'  (Safire's weekly language column examines the word "summit"   Times login: e- portals   password: e-portals)
National Post  Twenty years later, CNN needs new ideas  (or at the very least, a good war.)

Saturday June 03 00

BBC  Elephants 'killed as aphrodisiac'  (Thai food takes on a new meaning.)
Lonodn Sun  Tattooist puts face on my bum  (memo to self: "Do not drink before gettting a tattoo on your butt.")
London Times  Spirituality for the stylish  (Review of Mark Forstater's "The Spiritual Teachings of Marcus Aurelius." One can tell Fo rstater is trying to bring Aurelius' stoical messages into the year 2000 by his opening sentence "I'm sitting in a cyber café in Soho, London, sipping a cappuccino." View the archive page for more on this book, April 18-27. )
NY Times  A Real Job for Philosophy: Fixing Daily Frustrations  (Interview with author Alain de Botton, the author of "The Consolations of Philoso phy," who, like Forstater above, tries to get readers to apply philosophy as a solution to modern problems.   Times login: e-portals  password: e-portals    Two other articles on this book can be found in this  archive , a May 6th article from the Sydney Morning Herald, "Sex on the brain," and a 4/24 article from Salon.com, "the Consolations of Philosophy." )
Detroit Free Press  More women heed call to second career -- faith
(Women lead the rush to God. )
Salon.com  They've booted Mrs. Howell!  (net.Headlines will be paying close attention to the new CBS series The Survivors , aired on Wed nesdays at 8 p.m.. See yesterday's Tim Goodman article for another introduction to this wacky "Gilligan's Island on crack" series.)
Washington Post  'Survivor': An Island Not Remote Enough  (Tom Shales, America's premier television critic, loathesThe Su rvivors, calling it "a revolting and ridiculous bore." )

Friday June 02 00

BBC  Sex slaves 'trapped in UK'  (Between 140 and 1,400 women are used as sex slaves each year in the UK. This might explain the Spice Girls.)
Slate  Dear Prudence  (Weekly advice column)
London Times  Why feng shui is out of control   (Apparently it's more than decorating advice.)
London Sun  Dead lobster nips woman  (maybe she thought it was her date when "one of its claws suddenly swung out and grabbed her left boob.")
London Times  One helluva guy   (interview with older, kinder, gentler Norman Mailer.)
London Express  Michael J Fox is facing up to a future with no acting and this time there'll be no going back   (interview with older, kin der, gentler actor.)
Nerve.com  This Week in Sex  (The week in review.)
Salon.com  Turn-on   (New weekly column finds that the biggest turn-on in cinema this week is a preview of an upcoming Michelle Pheiffer-Harrison Ford movie. )
San Francisco Examiner  Tim Goodman: 'A case of unnatural selection'  (Have you seen the new CBS series, The Survivors ? You can win a million dollar s, but you have to dig latrine trenches and eat rats. Is that worse than facing Regis?)

Thursday June 01 00

Melbourne Age  Skinny models feel the pinch  (The British Medical Association speaks out against rake-thin models. Nobody listens.)
Salon.com  Saucy soccer moms  (Author tosses Sport's Illustrated Swimsuit Issue straight into the garbage while eagerly anticipating the Lands End Ul timate Swimwear catalog. "What is a collagen-plumped pout and a belly ring in the face of a tender grin and the endless promise of maturity? ")
National Post  Ugly? Join the club  (The Club dei Brutti, or Ugly Club, has 20,000 members and is growing. Want in? )
London Times  Museum visitors, by their sheer numbers, are killing the thing they love  (Long lines, rude people...no fun)
London Times  Holding back the tide  (Too many visitors are flooding Venice.)
London Megastar  Rod's cancer scare  (Singer still worried, but doctors say he will be okay and still able to sing.)
NY Post  Cheryl bids to have kids--at 52  (Cheryl Tiegs is expecting twins in July.)
National Post  A Glimpse into the heart of Canada  (In Canada, hockey is more than just a game and Rocket Richard was more than just a hockey player.)
National Post  What's in their sock drawer?  (beware of telling a guest to "Help yourself to anything.")
Sydney Morning Herald  Bones tell of beheading at Stonehenge  (did you know that the name "stonhenge" means stone gallows?)
Melbourne Age  Start-up's chip will convert CDs to digital without a PC  (taking mp3's away from computers will be revolutionary.)
London Times  Tom Jones: how to be cool at 60   (What's going on here? In Britain, the Continent and Australia he is a bigger star than he has ever been.)
London Mirror  how all women play a secret - and not very nice - game with each other   (Women still judge themselves by their looks...so do men.)
Salon.com  Garrison Keillor: 'Dear Mr Blue: Advice for Lovers and Writers'  (Garrison's weekly advice column answers that age-old question: "My internet romance broke up. How do I now go about meeting real men?")
National Post  Romans knew how to have fun  (Commentator, admiring CBS's The Survivors, longs for a return to the good ole days of entertain ment, the Gladiators. Let's hope no TV execs read this column.)

Monday June 12 00

Salon.com  Greil Marcus: 'Real Life Top Ten'  (Long-time rock critic's latest review.)
Slate  Is Susan Sontag a Plagiarist?  (Everything comes from something.)
Detroit Free Press  The age of the innocence: Don Henley finds family life a cozy refuge in a cold, cruel world   (After 11 years, Henley's back and flying like an Eagle.)
Toronto Globe and Mail  Read Gord's mind -- he's a hip-hop hit  (Gordon Lightfoot's music is back, but you may not recognize it.)
Detroit Free Press  Desiree Cooper: Music on Web isn't piracy -- it's promotion (Pro-Napster article.)
NY Times  Andrew Sullivan: 'Dot-communist Manifesto'  (Another pro-Napster article. Author says Marxism has finally found a place to thrive....the internet.   Times login: e-portals   password: e-portals)
NY Times  William Safire: 'On Language'  (Safire looks at bundling.   Times login: e-portals   p assword: e-portals)
National Post  Sex education today sure is a hoot  (Author concludes that men are predators and women like to be wooed and that "No amount of How S tella Got Her Groove Back can change the biological basis of the fact that Hugh Hefner has gotten older but his girlfriends haven't.)

Wednesday June 07 00

Editors Note: Ed and his family are headed out of town to attend the graduation of their daughter Mary.  net.Headlines will return Monday, June the 12th. Until that time, Happy Headline Hunting!  There are plenty of headlines both here and on the archive site that remain current. Other url's worth looking at are:
Wired news from Wired.com
NewsMax a fine list of international papers
Robot Wisdom Weblog Jorn Barger's excellent page
Obscure Store and Reading Room Jim Romenesko finds the bizarre.
New Homemaker Lynn Siprelle's excellent site for parents and her companion page Diary of a New Homemaker  which is an excellent daily journal.

and here are two headlines "for the road."
Salon.com  Journey to the center of my bottom  (more boomer woes!)
Nerve.com  The Bedroom Interview  (John Water's cult icon, Mink Stole, has her say.)

Wednesday June 07 00

BBC  Tom still a sex bomb at 60  (Tom Jones won't fade away.)
Nerve.com  StarFirsts  (More in the series about stars first times, including Kirk Douglas and Kathie Lee Gifford)
Salon.com  faking it  (Is it ethical to fake an orgasm? Would most men even care?)
Slate  The End of Mystery  (Now that the third secret of Fatima has been solved, what's left?)
Toronto Globe and Mail  The riddle of the black holes  (It turns out there's plenty left to discover.)
BBC  Swapping without suing  (Programmers already have the next Napster ready to go and this time it will be next to impossible to stop.)
NY Times  Maureen Dowd: "Rescue Me, Please!"  (Columnist is dismayed by the messages in Women's magazines and TV shows: "Shop. Eat shrimp cocktail . Flirt. Get rescued."   Times login: e-portals  password: e-portals)
National Post  The world needs more alpha females  (Columnist answers Maureen Dowd.)

Tuesday June 06 00

NY Press  Marital Outfidelity & Unoriginal Sin  (Professor Tiger laments the disparity between the public and private real ities of adultery and then admires the Catholic approach---confession.)
London Times  Why women should never get married   (Author Celia Brayfield argues that men's infidelity means that any wife is doomed to a life of pain and misery. Maybe so, but who would kill the spiders?)
London Times  Survivor Dettori puts new life before racing   (Britain's top jockey survives a small plane crash that killed the pilot and tearfully declares he no longer cares if he races ever again. He wants to stay home, love his wife, play with their children and kill the spiders.)
London Telegraph  'I couldn't even go to his funeral'  (Woman mourns the loss of her lover, a Catholic priest who was driven to suicide because of his love for her.   Telegraph login: e-portals  password: e-portals)
National Post  When the face in the mirror is your mother  (call the plastic surgeon!)
London Telegraph  Try to appease your spine   (back expert recommends five exercises for those of us w ith back problems.   Telegraph login: e-portals  password: e-portals)
London Sun  Britney in £7m sex shock  (Spears vows to remain a virgin despite attempted bribe.)
London Sun  Heather: Paul knows I'm no £500 hooker.   (Sir Paul's new girlfriend defends herself.)
Salon.com  Garrison Keillor's 'Dear Mr. Blue Advice for lovers and writers'
(Garrison's weekly advice column in which he answers the timeless question: " A boy I dated in high school confessed to me he's gay, and now he wants to say I'm his girlfriend for his parents' sake. Should I play along?")
Detroit Free Press  Asteroid made Earth a wasteland   (There was no prehistoric Bruce Willis to save the Earth.)

Monday June 05 00

Melbourne Age  Carly Simon's cancer fight echoed in song  (Boomers used to write about love. Now, showing their age, they write about thi ngs like cancer.)
BBC  'Couch potato' kids risking health  (Report states that kids are not exercising, with teenaged girls being particularly inactive. Have t hey checked the local malls on a Friday night?)
US News and World Report  Body mass weighs in against childhood fat
(Your pediatrician has a new Body Mass Index waiting for your child.)
London Star  Crash suspect dies   ("A KEY figure in the Princess Diana car crash inquiry has been found dead in a burnt-out car." Start the conspi racy theories ....now!)
Fox News  F. Lee Bailey: O.J. Flunked Lie Detector Test   (That's because HE DID IT!)
NY Post  Steve Dunleavy: "Squeeze the Juice on perjury rap"  (OJ didn't just flunk the lie detecter test; he bombed it.)
US News and World Report  Napster: Is it sharing or stealing?  (Both!)
Newsweek  The Art of Darkness   (Nintendo does the inevitible and puts out a Mature game.)
NY Post  Kenny Chesney and Tim McGraw in stir  (Country music superstars arrested in bizarre incident. Police will not say if alcohol was involved.)
Detroit Free Press  Rapper Eminem arrested in brawl outside bar  (Rap superstar arrested in bizarre incident. No classical musicians were arrested yesterday, by the way.)

Sunday June 04 00

BBC  Snap Crackle and Milli-pop  (Ever wonder why unwrapping candy while at a concert is so damned loud? )
National Post  Celebrity diss and dat  (celebrity spats outlined, including James Earl Jones vs. Spike Lee and Cher vs. Bette Midler.)
NY Times  Randy Cohen: "The Gift That Keeps On Giving "  (Weekly Ethics column asks the question "Should I have accepted $100 to allow someone to cut in line?"   Times login: e-portals   password: e-portals)
NY Times  William Safire 'On Language'  (Safire's weekly language column examines the word "summit"   Times login: e- portals   password: e-portals)
National Post  Twenty years later, CNN needs new ideas  (or at the very least, a good war.)

Saturday June 03 00

BBC  Elephants 'killed as aphrodisiac'  (Thai food takes on a new meaning.)
Lonodn Sun  Tattooist puts face on my bum  (memo to self: "Do not drink before gettting a tattoo on your butt.")
London Times  Spirituality for the stylish  (Review of Mark Forstater's "The Spiritual Teachings of Marcus Aurelius." One can tell Fo rstater is trying to bring Aurelius' stoical messages into the year 2000 by his opening sentence "I'm sitting in a cyber café in Soho, London, sipping a cappuccino." View the archive page for more on this book, April 18-27. )
NY Times  A Real Job for Philosophy: Fixing Daily Frustrations  (Interview with author Alain de Botton, the author of "The Consolations of Philoso phy," who, like Forstater above, tries to get readers to apply philosophy as a solution to modern problems.   Times login: e-portals  password: e-portals    Two other articles on this book can be found in the < A HREF="http://www.e-portals.org/links/old_page.htm">archive , a May 6th article from the Sydney Morning Herald, "Sex on the brain," and a 4/24 article from Salon.com, "the Consolations of Philosophy." )
Detroit Free Press  More women heed call to second career -- faith
(Women lead the rush to God. )
Salon.com  They've booted Mrs. Howell!  (net.Headlines will be paying close attention to the new CBS series The Survivors , aired on Wed nesdays at 8 p.m.. See yesterday's Tim Goodman article for another introduction to this wacky "Gilligan's Island on crack" series.)
Washington Post  'Survivor': An Island Not Remote Enough  (Tom Shales, America's premier television critic, loathesThe Su rvivors, calling it "a revolting and ridiculous bore." )

Friday June 02 00

BBC  Sex slaves 'trapped in UK'  (Between 140 and 1,400 women are used as sex slaves each year in the UK. This might explain the Spice Girls.)
Slate  Dear Prudence  (Weekly advice column)
London Times  Why feng shui is out of control   (Apparently it's more than decorating advice.)
London Sun  Dead lobster nips woman  (maybe she thought it was her date when "one of its claws suddenly swung out and grabbed her left boob.")
London Times  One helluva guy   (interview with older, kinder, gentler Norman Mailer.)
London Express  Michael J Fox is facing up to a future with no acting and this time there'll be no going back   (interview with older, kin der, gentler actor.)
Nerve.com  This Week in Sex  (The week in review.)
Salon.com  Turn-on   (New weekly column finds that the biggest turn-on in cinema this week is a preview of an upcoming Michelle Pheiffer-Harrison Ford movie. )
San Francisco Examiner  Tim Goodman: 'A case of unnatural selection'  (Have you seen the new CBS series, The Survivors ? You can win a million dollar s, but you have to dig latrine trenches and eat rats. Is that worse than facing Regis?)

Thursday June 01 00

Melbourne Age  Skinny models feel the pinch  (The British Medical Association speaks out against rake-thin models. Nobody listens.)
Salon.com  Saucy soccer moms  (Author tosses Sport's Illustrated Swimsuit Issue straight into the garbage while eagerly anticipating the Lands End Ul timate Swimwear catalog. "What is a collagen-plumped pout and a belly ring in the face of a tender grin and the endless promise of maturity? ")
National Post  Ugly? Join the club  (The Club dei Brutti, or Ugly Club, has 20,000 members and is growing. Want in? )
London Times  Museum visitors, by their sheer numbers, are killing the thing they love  (Long lines, rude people...no fun)
London Times  Holding back the tide  (Too many visitors are flooding Venice.)
London Megastar  Rod's cancer scare  (Singer still worried, but doctors say he will be okay and still able to sing.)
NY Post  Cheryl bids to have kids--at 52  (Cheryl Tiegs is expecting twins in July.)
National Post  A Glimpse into the heart of Canada  (In Canada, hockey is more than just a game and Rocket Richard was more than just a hockey player.)