NATION

The Arianna Sideshow (Nation/Campaign 2000)

The activist and socialite has plans for two "shadow conventions" she hopes will roil the Establishment. What are they really about?

WORLD

Indian Stunners

The once demure subcontinent has a new and fast-growing export: beauty queens

BUSINESS

Taps for Napster?

Record companies want to kill the music pirates' favorite site. This week they tell it to the judge

SOCIETY & SCIENCE

License to Drink (Behavior)

Can boozers learn moderation? A tragedy rekindles debate about a controversial program

Two-Faced Woman (Crime)

In search of the American Dream, thousands came to Big Sister Ping. The feds think she's a big crook

THE ARTS

Goodbye to All That (The Arts/Interview)

This week, after 15 years, Kathie Lee Gifford leaves Regis Philbin. It's the end of life as we know it

Kina (The Arts/Short Takes/Music)

Kina

Silent mysteries (The Arts/Art)

The quiet, marvelous paintings of Chardin capture things as they really are, making him the genius of the 18th century bourgeois imagination

A Painstaking Fantasy (The Arts/Cinema)

A digital filmmaker moves up the evolutionary ladder from dinos and toys to "real" human beings

Making Faces (The Arts/Cinema)

For monsters, monkeys or five Eddie Murphys, who you gonna call? Rick Baker

Hawaii's Man Of Steel (The Arts/Music)

A new CD unearths the joyous island sound of virtuoso guitarist King Bennie Nawahi

The Peacock In Shackles (The Arts/Television)

With no oxymoronically named reality TV in its pipeline, NBC casts a ravenous eye at the Dutch Chains of Love

PERSONAL TIME

Ginseng Surprise (Personal Time/Your Health)

An independent report finds that what's listed on a supplement's label is not always what's inside

The ABCs of ETFs (Personal Time/Your Money)

Exchange-traded funds are becoming popular. Here's what you need to know about them

I'm a Web Zombie (Personal Time/Your Technology)

The 24-hour-a-day webcast of Big Brother has me hooked on the lives of 10 strangers. Help!