Dateline: above the garage in Portsmouth RI, 12 May

Have no doubt, getting on the front page of the Wall Street Journal is way coolóbeyond way cool. Hell, I'm going to frame the whole front page.

But as a security analyst working for the Department of Defense (DoD), what you really want to see is the article being reprinted in the major clipping services. The big enchilada is the Early Bird service, which is the Pentagon's official reprint service. But also important for this Naval War College professor is the Chinfo New Clips ("Chinfo" referring to Chief of Information) put out by the Navy's Office of Information. That daily pub goes to every admiral in the navy.

Well, the WSJ profile made the main portion of the Early Bird yesterday as the 12th story out of 45 (listed under the category "Defense Department"), and it appeared in today's Chinfo on page 21. So that's some serious icing on the cake.

Here is today's catch of articles:

REFERENCES:

"Chinese Construction Companies Go Global: Evolving Know-How And Low Costs Help Firms Score Contracts Abroad," by David Murphy, Wall Street Journal, 12 May, p. B10.

"Foreigners Try to Melt an Inhospitable Japanese City," by James Brooke, New York Times, 12 May, p. A4.

"Indian Voters Turn a Cold Shoulder to High Technology," by Saritha Rai, NYT, 12 May, p. W1.

"Overdosing on Islam," by Nicholas D. Kristof, NYT, 12 May, p. A23.

"Economic Focus: Feeding the Hungry (In the fourth of a series of articles on the Copenhagen Consensus project, we look at hunger and malnutrition)," The Economist, 8 May, p. 74.

"Brazil: An underpowered economy (Lula's government is trying to remove obstacles to investmentóbut not fast enough)," The Economist, 8 May, p. 35.

"Vietnam's economy: The good pupil (Vietnam has become one of the fastest-growing countries in Asia)," The Economist, 8 May, p. 39.