NATION

Tax Cuts Before Tots (Nation/Issues 2000)

Candidate Bush is pushing his compassion, but poor kids in Texas have not seen much of it

Social Security (Nation/Issues 2000/TIME Issues Briefing)

Does the nation's oldest, most successful social program need a complete overhaul--or just an infusion of money?

WORLD

Enough!

Weary of conflict, Yugoslavs reject Milosevic in a presidential ballot, but he defiantly dismisses their verdict

Talking Out of School

In a State Department clampdown, a prominent ambassador is accused of mishandling secrets

SPECIAL REPORT

The Africa Experiment (Education Special Report/Disruptive Students)

Can a big city rescue its troubled students by sending them to study in Kenya?

(Education Special Report/Quick Study)

SOCIETY & SCIENCE

On the Brink (Environment)

Highlights from the new Red List of species headed for extinction

City Of Mummies (Archaeology)

Treasures from two periods of Egypt's history come to light in the richest find since King Tut's tomb

Rulon Gardner (The Summer Olympics)

A jumbo Wyoming farm boy shocks the world, and himself, by wrangling a Russian tank

Laugh Track (The Summer Olympics)

Did Sydney's wacky fans and mocking announcers change the Olympics forever?

Jane Saville (The Summer Olympics)

How can you lose the gold for going too fast?

Field Of Dreams (The Summer Olympics)

Did Americans just sleep through the most dazzling Olympic Games in decades?

BUSINESS

Oil's New Boss

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez strikes a fiery chord as host of a landmark OPEC summit. Is this a cartel the world should fear again?

THE ARTS

Reinventing Rock (The Arts/Music)

With their punkish attitude, poetic grandeur and spectacularly inventive new cd, the british fivesome Radiohead may be the best young band in the world

In Full Bloom (The Arts/Books)

The Family Orchard is a rich mix of fact and fiction

Divine Foolishness (The Arts/Cinema)

Robert De Niro's comic menace and Ben Stiller's genial haplessness combine in an inspired farce

Fumbled (The Arts/Cinema)

A drama of football and race undone by cliches

The Lord of Losers (The Arts/Cinema)

A British noble married into Hollywood royalty, Christopher Guest chronicles ever hopeful wannabes

The Shame of a Nation (The Arts/Cinema)

In Bamboozled, Spike Lee takes furious aim at the history of racial derision in American pop culture

Woman Nearly on Top (The Arts/Cinema)

Spanish actress Penelope Cruz is poised to graduate from art-movie siren to Hollywood star

Metaphysical Therapy (The Arts/Television)

Andre Braugher operates on another complex soul in the masterly medical drama Gideon's Crossing

Quirky Quixote (The Arts/Television)

Midwestern exposure on the sweetly nutty Ed

Give Us Your Scuzzbuckets (Trend Alert)

"Multitask" and "day trader" (but not "stalkerazzi") get the nod in a new American Heritage Dictionary

TIME BONUS

Romance of the Stone (Time Select/History)

Mystery lingers: Where did those Freemasons put that White House cornerstone back in 1792?

Bed, Breakfast And Beyond (Time Select/Travel)

Charming houses, elegant ambiance and genial hosts make B and Bs sweeter than home for those on the road

PERSONAL TIME

Marriage 101 (Personal Time/Your Family)

What you're really fighting about when you're fighting about the drapes and window swags

A Dangerous Mix (Personal Time/Your Health)

Anesthesiologists warn patients to stop taking herbal supplements before surgery. Here's why

Eur-own Dilemma (Personal Time/Your Money)

Europe's new currency is in a funk. Yes, travel there is cheaper, but stocks here are riskier

World Wide Radio (Personal Time/Your Technology)

You can now tune in to Internet music stations around the globe with the twist of a dial

In Brief (Personal Time/Your Technology)