We had a bit of a tiff with the FBI last week. Seems the feds took umbrage at a piece we ran on usnews.com about the latest kerfuffle in their continuing efforts to put together a computer system worthy of the 21st century. You can read more about this on Page 30 of this issue, but the reason I mention it is that, as of today, the magazine's entire editorial staff is publishing a raft of new stories, features, and columns each day on the magazine's website. We've been publishing online daily for years, but with all of our writers, reporters, columnists, and photo editors engaged in the effort now, the menu of new offerings has exploded.
Interested in the latest health news from the medical journals? Check out Dr. Bernadine Healy's Inside the Doctor's Bag column. Tech Trends will keep you ahead of the hottest news on PDA s, cellphones, and laptops, while Arts & Ideas will bring you the latest on books, gallery openings, and museum offerings. For more than a year, BizBuzz has brought you a daily fix on the markets. Now you can also dip into Career Spotlight, Personal Finance, and Capital Commerce for business and financial news more closely focused on your personal and professional life.
The list of offerings is too long to go into here--and it will continue to grow. But suffice it to say, if the information you find in your magazine has you looking forward to its appearance in your mailbox each week, you're going to find a whole lot more of it on usnews.com every day. Give us a look-see, and let us know what you think.
Deep Throat
I applaud and endorse Mark Felt's revealing the Watergate mess, but I have a problem with his not identifying himself then ["Out of the Shadows," June 13]. He wanted to be a hero but didn't want to pay the price. He wanted to stop "the wrongdoing" without any danger to himself or his standing in the eyes of his peers.
TED DE ROSE
South Haven, Mich.
Reading "Out Of The Shadows," I found, buried six paragraphs deep, the real issues surrounding the story about Deep Throat: the anonymous source's motivation and the public's tendency to accept unsubstantiated information. I wonder if Woodward and Bernstein realized that if Deep Throat's identity had come to light then, Felt's true motivation and credibility would have been more closely examined.
DAVE KYZER
Plano, Texas
Adoption Dilemma
"Pitfalls For Parents" [June 6], about international adoption, covered the negative aspects. Referring to international adoption as "big business" and as a "murky world" sours public opinion about professional and ethical nonprofit agencies that facilitate international adoption and provide humanitarian aid to destitute children. Fees paid to accredited adoption agencies are necessary to ensure the appropriateness and the legality of the adoption, not to purchase a child. When my husband and I adopted our son, all fees were broken down and explained clearly to us upfront. When we traveled to his country of origin, the agency went out of its way to help us arrange a visit to his town of birth and gave us the opportunity to meet his former caregivers. The entire process was legal, ethical, and wonderfully positive.
CYNTHIA MCCULLOUGH
Princeton, Mass.
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