NATION

Can This Marriage Be Saved?

One man's past is threatening the other man's future. But while Gore tries to distance himself, Clinton is privately fuming

The Money Chasm

Bush leaps ahead with some startling fund-raising figures. Has the 2000 race already been bought?

Space Invaders

Strangers from the North send a Southern town into a tizzy

A Cold Dose of Vengeance

In Indiana, an apparent case of SIDS turns into a horror story of hardhearted pretense and murder

BUSINESS

Ethics and AIDS Drugs

Some countries want to suspend patent and trade laws to get lower-cost medications to the poor

Rise of the Permatemp

Employers are using highly skilled temps full time to keep costs down. Now it may be time to pay up

The Next E-volution

BusinessBots could transform corporate commerce, just as the Web transformed consumer shopping

SOCIETY & SCIENCE

Peak Season (Environment)

Scrambling up Colorado's famous 14,000-ft. mountains has become a popular summer sport. Too popular

The Doctor's Daughter (Sport)

An 18-year-old tennis phenom turns out to have a most spectacular athletic bloodline

I Want My MP3 (Technology)

The music industry finally gets the message and goes with the flow--on one condition

PERSONAL TIME

The V Chip Arrives (Personal Time/Your Family)

It can help parents monitor kids' TV viewing. But there's a low-tech way to do the same thing

Change of Heart (Personal Time/Your Health)

A mitral-valve problem isn't as common--or as deadly--as your doctor might have told you

I'm Getting Fed Up (Personal Time/Your Money)

Trying to guess what Greenspan will do is our new national obsession. And a waste of time

WORLD

The Thinker (World/What We're Reading)

Asia's most glamorous diplomat pens a winner

THE ARTS

There's Something About Scary (The Arts/Cinema)

This summer's horror films aren't kid stuff. Ghosts, demons and sea creatures are stalking adults--on the screen and in the audience

A Dead-End Street (The Arts/Cinema)

Kids with bombs, neighbors with secrets and a paranoid professor all get lost in Arlington Road

Westward, No (The Arts/Cinema)

Not even Will Smith can rescue this misadventure

Codes and Whispers (The Arts/Art)

Ann Hamilton's severe meditation on violence in America creates a buzz at the Venice Biennale

Where Charlotte Wove (The Arts/Books)

On a visit to E.B. White's farm, we find the animals gone but the place still enchanted

The Boss Is Back (The Arts/Music)

And for the first time in 10 years, the old E Street Band is touring with him

American Pie (The Arts/Short Takes/Cinema)

Directed by Paul Weitz

Autumn Tale (The Arts/Short Takes/Cinema)

Directed by Eric Rohmer

Iron Chef (The Arts/Short Takes/Television)

TV Food Network, Fridays

TIME BONUS

The New Age Of Travel (Time Select/Business)

With mergers, alliances and reaction to the impact of the Web, the travel industry is in turmoil as it reaches for global scale

Call Of The Wild (Time Select/Business)

Ecotourism has become a mainstay of the travel biz. Now it has to see if it can stay true to its original objectives

South Africa's Makeover (Time Select/Business)

Emerging from economic and political isolation, the country sees grassroots tourism as a way to breathe life into local communities

How Big A Bash? (Time Select)

High rollers will celebrate the millennium in style, but others are planning to party at home