NATION

JULIUS SPEAKER?

UH-OH, NEWT GINGRICH IS IN TROUBLE AGAIN, AND GUESS WHICH FRIEND HAS THAT LEAN AND HUNGRY LOOK

SORRY, PARDNER

BIG TOBACCO FESSES UP AND PAYS UP--$368.5 BILLION, BUT CONGRESS MUST APPROVE THE DEAL

GOING WITHOUT A PRAYER

AN INSIDE LOOK AT HOW THE FBI AND CIA NABBED AN INFAMOUS SUSPECT AFTER A GLOBAL, FOUR-YEAR MANHUNT

WORLD

HONG KONG: THE BIG HANDOVER (ONE COUNTRY, MANY SYSTEMS)

FOR THE FIRST TIME BRITAIN IS GIVING A COLONY TO A COMMUNIST STATE. THE PEOPLE OF HONG KONG ARE BOTH PROUD AND ANXIOUS

INSIDE CHINA (ONE COUNTRY, MANY SYSTEMS)

AS HONG KONG IS REUNITED WITH CHINA, IT WILL CHANGE THE MAINLAND AS MUCH AS CHINA CHANGES IT

THE SECRET MISSILE DEAL

THE CIA HAS DISCOVERED THAT CHINA IS HELPING PAKISTAN BUILD A MISSILE PLANT. WILL THE U.S. OBJECT?

HEALTH & MEDICINE

OH, MY ACHING HEAD! (Medicine)

STRESS. HORMONES. PARENTS. GENES. THE LATEST ABOUT WHAT GIVES US HEADACHES--AND MAKES THEM GO AWAY

EVERY WOMAN'S DILEMMA (Health)

IT'S A CHOICE BETWEEN THE RISKS OF TAKING ESTROGEN AND THE RISKS OF NOT. A NEW STUDY CLARIFIES THE ISSUES

WATER HAZARD? (Health)

FINNISH SCIENTISTS LINK CHLORINE TO CANCER IN RATS

TECHNOLOGY

BRIEFING

THE WHITE HOUSE (Notebook / THE SCOOP)

JUST CALL ME THE ANNIVERSARY PRESIDENT

HOLLYWOOD (Notebook / THE SCOOP)

WOULD YOU WANT TO HAVE LUNCH IN THIS TOWN AGAIN?

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE

A MYSTIC OF HOUSES (ESSAY)

A GHOST HAS TURNED UP, BUT HE'S JUST A HAPPY MEMORY THE HOUSE HASN'T FORGOTTEN

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

CINEMA: ONE DUMB SUMMER (The Arts / CINEMA)

MOST OF THE NEW ACTION FILMS ARE BIG, LOUD AND DOPEY, NEAR EXHAUSTION IF NOT EXTINCTION. SPIELBERG DOESN'T HAVE THE ONLY DINOSAURS AROUND

BOOKS: THIS DICK IS A JANE (The Arts / BOOKS)

THE CROSS-CULTURAL HEROINE OF THE JANE WHITEFIELD SERIES CAN BREAK A GUY'S HEART AS WELL AS HIS LEG

THEATER: THE DRABINSKY RAG (The Arts / THEATER)

THE CANADIAN SHOWMAN HAS ALREADY SHAKEN UP BROADWAY. BUT WAIT TILL IT SEES HIS NEXT MUSICAL

PEOPLE

LETTERS