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Schlosser concentrates his search on three areas: pot, migrant labor and pornography. (In case you're wondering whether combining porn and economics makes economics interesting or porn boring, it's the former.) He follows the money down some dark alleys: into peep shows and prisons, subterranean high-tech hydroponic pot farms and camouflaged, garbage-strewn encampments of illegal Mexican farmworkers. He introduces us to Reuben Sturman, a humble Cleveland comic-book salesman who became the founding father of America's $10 billion porn industry and who deserves a whole book of his own. We meet Mark Young, a good-natured...
...University of Vermont and a psychiatrist who works with traumatized kids. People have made much of the fact that Smart did not cry out in public or try to escape. But this doesn't mean she was brainwashed. She may have been threatened with harm if she made a peep and thus pursued an unconscious survival strategy of trying to win the goodwill of her captors. Such behavior might, from the outside, resemble affection or even love...
...retire. After months of tabloid speculation about how Davis--whose ego is a frequent subject of industry jokes ("Why does Clive Davis like CDs more than tapes? He thinks they were named after him")--would respond, he surprised his critics, friends and corporate overlords by stepping aside without a peep. As a reward for his grace, Davis was given seed money to start J Records, where in a short time he piloted Alicia Keys to five Grammys and 10 million worldwide album sales. In November 2002 slumping BMG decided that perhaps Davis was still vigorous enough to lead both...
Perhaps Derwish deserved the fate of the company he kept, or perhaps he was a certified bad guy. Nevertheless, an American citizen not charged or convicted of any crime was killed by a CIA Predator, targeted in cooperation with the Pentagon, and there was hardly a peep of protest in this country. Where is the outrage? Intelligence officials say killing an American with a Hellfire missile was perfectly fine because he was an "enemy combatant," a term that the government seems to apply freely these days. Besides, the CIA claims, it didn't know that an American...
SOFTWARE Peeping Into Windows For geeks, it's a scintillating show: Microsoft is releasing its closely guarded Windows source code - the instructions that make it run - to most governments. The move is designed to fend off the threat from Linux, the open-source platform that is gaining headway in governments across Europe. Cheaper and, many experts say, more secure than Windows, Linux is the world's fastest-growing server operating system. Openness becomes a strength because users share improvements. Microsoft wants to reassure governments about security, but it hasn't shed all its reserve. This show is only a peep...