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?
A Cold Dose Of Vengeance
In Indiana, an apparent case of SIDS turns into a horror story of hardhearted pretense and murder
Space Invaders
Strangers from the North send a Southern town into a tizzy
What Justice?
How the killer of eight children got probation
The $5.9 Trillion Shopping List
HOW TO SPEND A SURPLUS?
WORLD
Tearing Down Milosevic
Washington resorts to a bag of tricks to try to get Yugoslavia a new leader
Kashmir: How I Started A War
A Pakistani soldier's account of the Kashmir battle
The Thinker (What We're Reading)
Asia's most glamorous diplomat pens a winner
Inside Milosevic's Propaganda Machine
SCIENCE
Peak Season (Environment)
Scrambling up Colorado's famous 14,000-ft. mountains has become a popular summer sport. Too popular
SPORT
Inside The Crazy Culture Of Kids Sports (Inside The Crazy Culture Of Kids Sports)
Competitive athletics can help keep children happy and out of trouble--but it takes over some families' lives
The Doctor's Daughter
An 18-year-old tennis phenom turns out to have a most spectacular athletic bloodline
Poor Kids Need A Sporting Chance (Inside The Crazy Culture Of Kids Sports)
TECHNOLOGY
I Want My Mp3
The music industry finally gets the message and goes with the flow--on one condition
BRIEFING
Notebook: Jul. 12, 1999 (Notebook)
Cinema: Kubrick's Dead, but His Projects Aren't (Notebook)
Kubrick's Dead, but His Projects Aren't
Campaign 2000: Kooky Kandidates (Notebook / Campaign 2000)
A 27-Year-Old Looks Back On Life (Notebook)
Milestones Jul. 12, 1999 (Notebook / Milestones)
Eulogy: MARIO PUZO (Notebook)
Justice: Freeh-Agentry: Is the FBI Chief Playing to Bush? (Notebook)
Freeh-Agentry: Is the FBI Chief Playing to Bush?
Hollywood (Notebook)
Forget the Lawsuit, The Movie Must Go On
Lifestyles of the Rich and Wanted (Notebook)
Through A Glass Darkly (Notebook)
ALSO IN THIS ISSUE
Don't Cry For Me, Oneonta (Essay)
Can it be that Bill Clinton is merely a prequel, the horse she rode in on?
Contributors: Jul. 12, 1999
It's A Jumble Out There (Essay)
America is a sweet land of confusion. We should be proud of that
The Maestro Of East Harlem (American Scene)
She came to a tough neighborhood with 50 violins and a belief that all kids should play music
BUSINESS
Ethics And AIDS Drugs
Some countries want to suspend patent and trade laws to get lower-cost medications to the poor
The Next E-volution
BusinessBots could transform corporate commerce, just as the Web transformed consumer shopping
Rise Of The Permatemp
Employers are using highly skilled temps full time to keep costs down. Now it may be time to pay up
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Cinema: 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
Cinema: Westward, No (The Arts / Cinema)
Not even Will Smith can rescue this misadventure
Television: Love, Money, Witches And Beach Grass (The Arts / Television)
In Passions, NBC hopes to have that rarity, a successful new soap
Music: The Boss Is Back (The Arts / Music)
And for the first time in 10 years, the old E Street Band is touring with him
Books: At E.B. White's farm: 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
Art: Codes And Whispers (The Arts / Art)
Ann Hamilton's severe meditation on violence in America creates a buzz at the Venice Biennale
Cinema: American Pie (The Arts / Short Takes)
Directed by Paul Weitz
Cinema: Out of Nowhere And Into Blair (The Arts / Cinema)
Cinema: A Dead-End Street (The Arts / Cinema)
Kids with bombs, neighbors with secrets and a paranoid professor all get lost in Arlington Road
Books: The Fencing Master (The Arts / Short Takes)
By Arturo Perez-Reverte
Cinema: Autumn Tale (The Arts / Short Takes)
Directed by Eric Rohmer
Ad Land (The Arts / Short Takes)
Music: Elegiac Cycle (The Arts / Short Takes)
Brad Mehldau
Books: Paul Rand (The Arts / Short Takes)
Phaidon Press
Iron Chef (The Arts / Short Takes)
TV Food Network, Fridays
YOUR 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
Your Family: Jul. 12, 1999 (Personal Time / Your Family)
Your Health: Jul. 12, 1999 (Personal Time / Your Health)
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
Your Money: Jul. 12, 1999 (Personal Time / Your Money)
SPECIAL SECTION
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