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Numerous writers (and ordinary Jews) have bemoaned observant Judaism's diminishing American ranks, noting that 52% of Jews marry Gentiles, and 50% do not belong to any synagogue. The Columbia University journalism professor offers only a terse aside. "It is hard to work up any optimism" that such people will continue as real Jews, he writes. Rather, he asks, once they have drifted off into a Seinfeld-and-bagels ethnicity, how will American Judaism be defined...
...features--Ask Jeeves, for one, now offers popularity rankings--it's worth remembering how recently another pair of Stanford grads seemed similarly unrivaled: David Filo and Jerry Yang of Yahoo. "The darkest cloud on your horizon is if a couple of students come up with something even better," Stanford professor Rajeev Motwani told former student Page over dinner recently. No, replied Page, that will never happen. Still, you can forgive him a little hubris. Enough massages and free ice cream can make anyone feel invincible...
...popular kids in school, admired by peers and teachers alike, according to a report presented last week at a meeting of the American Psychological Association (A.P.A.). "These are the kids that other students look up to, the ones everybody wants to hang out with," says Dorothy Espelage, an assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, who co-authored the study. It defines bullying as persistent teasing, name calling or social exclusion; Espelage did not include overt physical acts, since she found they were rare and typically used by students with more serious problems...
...After years of talking about women and computer phobia, it turns out that women were simply reticent about a technology for which they didn't have compelling uses," notes sociologist and M.I.T. professor Sherry Turkle. At alloy.com a top teen site with a 60% female audience, that means horoscopes, advice and message boards. But pegging women's interests isn't always that pat. Ann Wrixon, CEO of www.seniornet.org says, "Three years ago, women on our site were only interested in special topics like knitting or book clubs. Now they're just as likely to tell someone...
...breezily suggested aides get off and stretch their legs. As stern-looking border guards in drab green uniforms stood watch, two of Albright's top staff members were dispatched to ask permission politely for all to get off the aircraft. Nyet was the official reply. So Albright, the former professor and Democratic Party player, decided to teach the hard-liners about hardball politics. She marched down the stairs, greeting the surprised guards with a few choice Russian words; they let her pass. She suggested she might dial up old chum IGOR IVANOV--a.k.a. the Russian Foreign Minister...