WORLD

Star Wars: The Sequel

Hey, what ever happened to arms control? Well, here comes the new Bill Clinton, Star Warrior

Operation Quagmire?

If the talks fail, NATO bombs. If the talks succeed, 4,000 U.S. troops go to Kosovo. Such is progress

BUSINESS

You've Got Music!

Record companies, hearing disaster, are desperate to keep their wares from being pirated off the Internet

Motor City Air Raid

Newcomer Pro Air thrives as Northwest stumbles. Are discount airlines ripe for a comeback?

PERSONAL TIME

Winter Allergies (Personal Time/Your Health)

A new report says your chronic colds and sniffles may be caused by irritants, not germs

The Dumb Money (Personal Time/Your Money)

There's a lot of it sloshing around in the market today, as shown by the mania over stock splits

Audible Books (Personal Time/Your Technology)

Forget books on tape. Audible's MobilePlayer lets you download them cheaper from the Net

TIME BONUS

Living Dangerously (Time Select/Business)

We need new international mechanisms to harness globalization's potential to generate prosperity

World Cars (Time Select/Business)

Canadian auto-parts company Magna shows the way toward the modular car industry of the future

So Far, So Good (Time Select/Business)

Our Board of Economists foresees growth in 1999--but danger beyond that

SOCIETY & SCIENCE

Tracking Down Mom (Law)

Should adopted children have the right to uncover their birth parents? More states are trying to open the records

Where There's Smoke... (Law)

The siege of Big Tobacco and a Brooklyn verdict provide a strategy to take aim at gun manufacturers

Real Knife, Fake Surgery (Science)

Sham operations--in which the patient is cut open and sewed up--are the latest medical controversy

I Want My HDTV! (Science)

Report from the frontiers of digital entertainment

SPECIAL REPORT

A Whole New World (Heroes For The Planet/Design)

The most visionary of today's designers see the earth as a machine for living--and honor nature as a guide to structure WILLIAM MCDONOUGH The Man Who Wants Buildings to Love Kids

THE ARTS

Designing Woman (The Arts/Cinema)

Sometimes clothes really do make the man. Or woman. At least they do when costumer Sandy Powell creates them

Visionary Homebody (The Arts/Art)

The 17th century Dutch painter Pieter de Hooch raised orderly domesticity to the level of sanctity

Hoods and Hustlers (The Arts/Books)

A white journalist tells the story of a black gang member. It's hard to tell who's being conned

Survival of the Finest (The Arts/Books)

A novel about Charles Darwin's aide-de-camp celebrates another aspect of human evolution

NOT USED

Jawbreaker (Short Takes/Cinema)

Directed by Darren Stein