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******* Science ??” whether its stem-cell research or greenhouse gases ??” is elbowing its way onto front pages and winning new fans who've gotten bored by celebrity worship and disaster-watching. A standout is Science magazine, a weekly churning out exclusives that have lately dominated news cycles. Its current cover story on how a satellite-tagged Great White shark swam back and forth across two oceans to visit her mate makes textbooks obsolete on marine life of the deep. Another article that hit world headlines revealed how researchers resurrected the 1918 influenza virus to serve in lab experiments for building new defenses against the next great pandemic ??” bird flu. Discover magazine struts its depth in its 25th anniversary issue with a 50-page report on what science is factually capable of doing in the next quarter-century ??” from tissue engineering and longevity to disease control and climate survival. Discover was purchased by maverick publisher Bob Guccione Jr., who intends to shake up science media. MORE ONLINE
2. NY Times
It's a match made in demographic heaven. Seventeen magazine has paired with MTV to produce a reality show, having its premiere next Monday, with 17 young female contestants facing tests of their characters. Atoosa Rubenstein, the editor in chief of Seventeen, will be the host of the show, "Miss Seventeen." She created it based on the magazine's longstanding annual model search contest. For the show, looks are only part of the equation: Ms. Rubenstein will evaluate the overachieving crop of contestants, ages 18 to 21, based on their intelligence, loyalty and honesty. Each episode will end with an "Apprentice"-style elimination -- but without a Trump-like kiss-off. MORE ONLINE
3. Women??™s Wear Daily
OFFICE POLITICS: The fallout from the magazine industry's ongoing circulation-reporting woes is getting personal. After 14 years on the Audit Bureau of Circulations' board, Peter Armour, senior vice president of consumer marketing for Cond?© Nast Publications (parent of WWD), faces a challenge for his seat at next month's annual meeting. David Rock, director of online and partnerships at Ziff Davis Media, is campaigning for Armour's spot, claiming Armour has been insufficiently energetic in representing publishers' concerns.
Armour responded last week with a letter to ABC members defending his tenure on the board and asking for support. "The individual opposing me has every right to do so," he wrote. "However, does he have the understanding of the inner workings of ABC, the experience to deal with some of the most important advertisers and advertising agency chief executives from the top organizations in the U.S. today?"
FAST TIMES: Teen People's new managing editor, Lori Majewski, said her goal is to turn the magazine into "a monthly that thinks like a weekly." One easy way to do that: Hire a bunch of former colleagues from her days as executive editor of Us Weekly. Jeremy Helligar, who left Us last year to become a senior editor at Entertainment Weekly, is making an intra-Time Inc. transition to become deputy editor in charge of features, and Shirley Halperin, a staff editor at Us, has signed on as West Coast editor. Halperin replaces Lauren Tabach-Bank, who left last month to head up Celebrity Living's West Coast bureau.
4. Slate
Is there a gender gap in the wine world? Evidently so, judging from the sudden boom in wines??”and wine accoutrements??”targeted at women. In May, Beringer Blass Wine Estates introduced White Lie, a low-alcohol, reduced-calorie Chardonnay that's being marketed to women. July saw the debut of Wine Adventure, a magazine hoping to attract women wine buffs supposedly alienated by the testosterone-driven coverage in other wine journals. Leslie Sbrocco recently published Wine for Women, a guidebook for distaff drinkers, and another book, 100 Women in Wine: Journeys and Inspiration in Wine and Life, is due to be released next year. I don't recall this being declared the Decade of Women in Wine, and I will admit to being a little surprised by this sudden outpouring of sisterhood. Here I, and probably every other male oenophile, thought we were having a terrific coed party, only to now be told that the women weren't having much fun at all. But before the ladies pack up their Riedel glasses and head off to drink by themselves, a question: Is the wine world really so inhospitable to women that voluntary separation is necessary? Or is this just an example of niche marketing run amok? On the face of it, the notion that women are somehow discriminated against in matters of wine is absurd. For one thing, wine has always been portrayed, in the popular culture anyway, as a woman's drink. The boys pound shots and beers; the girls demurely sip chardonnays and merlots. And crude caricatures aside, there is some evidence that wine is a woman's drink. According to the Adams Wine Handbook, which studies consumption patterns in the United States, women purchase 55 percent of the wine sold in this country. MORE ONLINE
5. Washingtonian
U.S. News & World Report, the perennial third among the newsmagazines, is trying to become the first to exploit the Internet. It??™s also trying to be among the first of the mainstream media outlets to hitch its fortunes to the shaky engine of Web economics. A reading of the magazine??™s internal memos, examination of its recent layoffs, and interviews with editors make it clear the weekly is betting on profits from its Internet ventures to prop up the magazine??™s failing fortunes. ???Our Web business is really exploding,??? says editor Brian Duffy. MORE ONLINE
6. Reuters via Yahoo! News
French anti-fur activists said they struck Anna Wintour, editor of the U.S. edition of Vogue, in the face with a cream pie on Saturday to protest against her support for the use of animal fur by the fashion industry. Wintour, dressed in a fur-trimmed black jacket, was hit in the face with a tofu cream pie as she left the Chloe fashion ready-to-wear show at the Tuileries Gardens in central Paris, members of the group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) said. It was the second such attack this year on Wintour, an unapologetic fur supporter decried by animal rights groups as a "pelt pusher". MORE ONLINE
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