COVER
New Hope For Cancer
This little pill targets cancer cells with uncanny precision. Is it the breakthrough we've been waiting for?
SPECIAL SECTION
Harmony in a Unified Cosmos (Innovators)
Critics and fans alike consider Don Byron the world's best clarinettist and also recognize his unique musical aesthetic
Going Deep After Napster (Innovators)
Johnny Deep made AOL's Instant Messenger completely private...and made it possible to trade music in private over IM
Postmodern Country Songs (Innovators)
Some of the best players around, the youngsters of Nickel Creek are regarded as both blugrass revivalists and "newgrass" innovators
In Fantasy's Loop (Innovators)
Video game fanatics look to Nobuo Uematsu to deliver rich and complex music that can stand up to the constant repetition
Now Every Night He Saves a DJ's Life (Innovators)
Director of the highly regarded documentary Battle Sounds, John Carluccio is developing turntablist transcription methodology, a system he calls TTM, that will make it possible for DJs to copyright their compositions
BRIEFING
Starting Time
For the week of May 28, 2001
ASIA
Grief From Glitter
Amid the political chaos of Indonesia, a new kind of horror is spawned in Sulawesi's gold rush
The Grooviest Guv
There's little the public doesn't know about Nagano's rebel Governorexcept whether he, or anyone, can change Japan
Monkey Man Attack!
He's half man, half beast, and has New Delhi totally terrorized
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Asian Movies Hit the Road
Asian films make waves at Cannes
SPORTS
Judgment Day For the Olympic Cities (Sport)
Beijing is still the favorite in the race for the 2008 Summer Games
TRAVEL
In Angkor? Don't Steal That Statue: It's a Fake
The world's largest collection of Khmer sculpture resides, appropriately, at Angkor, the exquisite former royal capital in Cambodia