NATION

A Very Close Call

Hurricane Floyd never delivered the catastrophic blow forecasters feared, but that just postpones the inevitable

Wait Till Next Time

If a little heated water in the Atlantic can create Floyd, what storms will global warming bring?

Take My Party, Please

Jesse Ventura may not run for President in 2000--but he wouldn't mind if Donald Trump joined the fray

Pat Buchanan

Foreign Policy From the Fringe THE WORLD ACCORDING TO...

Bill Gives Big

Mr. Microsoft will send 20,000 minority students to college

Condi Rice Can't Lose

George W. Bush's foreign-policy adviser is a future superstar. But can she save Bush from himself?

BUSINESS

HERE COME PVRs

Is Network Tv Doomed? Personal video recorders that allow ad-free viewing could change broadcasting

WORLD

How We Spied on You

Aged spooks gather in Berlin to trade gibes and tales about the golden era of cold war espionage

SPORT

Sergio's First Stand

In this week's Ryder Cup, the Spanish phenom takes on a testy Tiger and other cranky U.S. pros

THE ARTS

Reznor's Redemption (The Arts/Music)

Industrial rock's auteur was lost. His new CD shows what he found on the hard road back

Roads Not Taken (The Arts/Books)

What if some of our history had happened a little differently?

The Absence of Comfort (The Arts/Books)

A Gesture Life elegantly charts the inner life of an emotionally and socially dislocated man

Encore, Encore (The Arts/Design)

Nearly 70, Radio City Music Hall, a monument of modern design, dresses up again in the high style of its youth

Boomer Bards (The Arts/Television)

They've done teens, 20s, 30s--now it's fortysomethings in Once and Again

Blue Streak (The Arts/Short Takes/Cinema)

Directed by Les Mayfield

Versus (The Arts/Short Takes/Fashion)

Donatella Versace

Later Today (The Arts/Short Takes/Television)

NBC, weekdays, 9 a.m. E.T.

Later Today (The Arts/Short Takes/Television)

NBC, weekdays, 9 a.m. E.T.

Snoops (The Arts/Short Takes/Television)

ABC, Sunday, 9 p.m. E.T.

The Donkey Show (The Arts/Short Takes/Theater)

Created by Diane Paulus and Randy Weiner

TIME BONUS

Eddie & Esther (Time Select/Nostalgia)

Two much married former stars cast a look backward

Those Rich Old Pros (Time Select/Professional Sports)

On the golf and tennis senior tours, the Boys of Autumn are winning acclaim and big bucks

In The Long Run (Time Select/Senior Olympics)

The Senior Games in Orlando, Fla., next month will put older but fitter athletes on display

PERSONAL TIME

Positive Illusions (Personal Time/Your Family)

From "I do" to the Seven-Year Itch, a new study shows that marriage (surprise) is hard work

Do the Shoes Fit? (Personal Time/Your Health)

In sports, wearing the right footwear is almost as important as how well you play the game

Don't Get Caught (Personal Time/Your Money)

Stock-fund holders could be on the hook for big tax bites in a year of big redemptions

All-in-One Gizmo? (Personal Time/Technology)

Handspring's new personal digi-assistant may be the last gadget you'll ever need. If it works.