COVER

Europe's Currency (Cover Stories)

Rumpus and Economic Slump Have Got the Community's Fractious Partners . . . on Each Other's Nerves

The Long Haul: the U.S. Economy (Cover Stories)

If the recession is over, why does the pain linger? Because this is no normal recovery. Business is barely moving. And consumers have dug in their heels. But there's good news: if the U.S. gets to work

NATION

Countdown Mentality (U.S. Campaign)

Why Clinton's cautious team is focusing on how many days remain until the election

The Cover-Up Defense (The Week: Nation)

A country lawyer challenges the government in an Iraq-gate trial

WORLD

Counterreformation (Former Soviet Bloc)

Across the old East bloc, die-hard communists, nationalists and spoiled workers are thwarting the drive toward free-market democracy

End of A Myth (The Week World)

Peruvian police capture the hemisphere's deadliest rebel movement

Force Feeding (The Week World)

U.N. troops arrive in Somalia to make sure food aid reaches the starving

His Turn to Lose (Peru)

The capture of Abimael Guzman has decapitated the Shining Path revolution, but the world's most brutal guerrilla group vows to continue its bloody campaign

WAR & TERRORISM

Ever Greater Serbia (The Balkans)

After Bosnia, Belgrade is likely to turn its guns on predominantly Albanian Kosovo, which could ignite a broader war

SCIENCE

Beyond Pluto (Space)

Astronomers spy a faint icy body at the solar system's edge -- evidence of the breeding grounds of comets

HEALTH & MEDICINE

Faulty Circuits (The Week Health & Science)

Bad brain wiring may underlie obsessive-compulsive disorder

The Glue of Life (Medicine)

By manipulating the adhesiveness of cells, scientists hope to stop the spread of cancer, cure arthritis and develop a new class of therapies

SOCIETY

Big One for Big Mo? (The Week: Society)

The ground is stretching in Missouri: a big quake is just a matter of time

Doctors' Cure (The Week: Society)

A new health-care proposal from an influential physicians' group

No Deal (The Week: Society / Et Cetera)

No Deal

No Silver Lining (The Week: Society)

Swiss greenhouses predict global warming may smother plants

Price Of Neglect (The Week: Society)

A chicken king goes to prison for the death of two dozen workers

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