COVER

One Giant Step For Mankind

Meet your newfound ancestor, a chimplike forest creature that stood up and walked 5.8 million years ago

EUROPE

BUSINESS

The End of The Affair

FIAT takes on erstwhile ally Mediobanca ... will Italian finance ever be the same?

ARTS

Reality Bites (Essay)

A writer's dying protest against crank curatives

BRIEFING

World Watch (Notebook)

WORLD WATCH: Seven Days in The Life of The Planet

AFRICA