Table of ContentsWHY WE SHOULD CAREAMERICAN BUSINESS UNBOUNDCOMPETITIVE JOLTS A MASSACHUSETTS UTILITY HAS BECOME A LEADER IN THE MOVEMENT FOR CONSUMER CHOICE AT THE OUTLET PLUGTHE VEEP TREATMENT DESPITE DOUBTS ABOUT ITS TECHNOLOGY, THE COMPANY OF A GORE CONTRIBUTOR RAKES IN BIG FEDERAL CONTRACTSTHE HILL CODE A GOOD MAN, AN IMPELLED CRIME: A FIERCE FIRST NOVELTHE MERITS OF THE CASE WITH ASTONISHING SPEED, THE MCVEIGH TRIAL RE ACHES ITS CLIMAX. HAS JUSTICE BEEN SERVED?GOODBYE NEWT, HELLO CBS ALTHOUGH A REPUBLICAN RISING STAR, CONGRESSWOMAN SUSAN MOLINARI WOULD RATHER BE KATIE COURICDECIPHERING GOD'S PLAN A NEW BOOK SAYS RABIN'S MURDER WAS PREDICTED AND THERE ARE DREADFUL THINGS TO COME. SHOULD WE FEAR?BIZ WATCHFLASHBACKBALANCING ACT CUTTING RED TAPE AT THE FDA HAS GIVEN A BIG BOOST TO AN AIDS-FIGHTING BIOTECH FIRMMISSISSIPPI PRESS A LEVER, ANY LEVER, AND YOU'VE GOT A MILESTONEHOT PLANES, CRASHING CARS AND BURLY GUYSLIAR, LIAR, PANTS ON FIRE... EVEN PEOPLE UNKNOWN TO THE TABLOIDS HAVE TROUBLE BEING HONEST ABOUT SEXINSPIRED NATURALIST A SMITHSONIAN SHOW CELEBRATES THE SCIENCE AND ART OF AMERICA'S BIRDMAN, JOHN JAMES AUDUBON"WE CAN SIT HERE BEMOANING BEAVIS AND BUTT-HEAD OR WE CAN LEARN FROM THEIR APPEAL."PHONE PRANKS WHY WE SHOULD HANG UP ON A PLAN TO REBUILD MA BELLPEOPLEIRAN SPEAKING SOFTLY AND HIDING THE BIG STICKHI HO SILVER CHARM THE GRAY COLT COULD BECOME THE FIRST HORSE SINCE 1978 TO WIN THE TRIPLE CROWNKEY WEST GOES BALLISTIC THE AIR FORCE AND RESIDENTS SQUARE OFF FOR COMBAT IN THE HIBISCUS ZONECISCO GUARDS THE GATES DATA WOULD GO NOWHERE ON THE NET WITHOUT THE COMPANY'S ROUTERS. IT AIMS TO KEEP THINGS THAT WAYPOWER PLAYER A COLORADO UPSTART IS GETTING INTO THE TELEPHONE BUSINESS IN A BIG WAY--VIA POWER LINESLETTERSMILESTONESGRAY IN A GOLDEN VOICE THE BOYISH BEATLE IS BACK--OLDER AND A LITTLE SADDER. WE LIKE PAUL MCCARTNEY THIS WAYBRANCHING OUT SPANISH FOSSILS MAY REDRAW THE HUMAN FAMILY TREETHE START OF THE DEAL A PAULA JONES V. CLINTON TRIAL WOULD BE A DIVE INTO A SEWER, SO IT MAY NOT HAPPEN. THE OUTLINES OF A DEAL ARE EMERGING FROM TESTY EXCHANGESSPEECH FOR A HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATE A PARENT GIVES HIS SON SEVERAL WORDS OF INDISPENSABLE ADVICENOT NIRVANA FOO FIGHTERS OFFERS UP AN UNEVEN SECOND ALBUM"MY GOAL IS TO EXPAND INTO A CUTTING-EDGE, FULL COSMETICS COMPANY. I WANT TO DOMINATE."CAGED HEAT AS OSCAR-WINNING ACTOR TURNED ACTION-FILM HERO, NICOLAS CAGE IS RIDING HIGHON THE CASEA ROM OF THEIR OWN SMART, SOCIALLY ORIENTED COMPUTER GAMES CHALLENGE THE NOTION THAT GIRLS WON'T PLAYUNITY AND DIVISION FIFTY YEARS AFTER THE MARSHALL PLAN BEGAN, EUROPE IS FEELING THE PAIN OF POLITICAL INTEGRATIONNOTEBOOKARE WE NOT MEN'S MAGAZINES? HOW GQ, ESQUIRE AND MEN'S HEALTH HELP MAKE THE WORLD SAFE FOR MOISTURIZERSJONBENET AND THEN THERE WERE...HUNDREDS?THE COLORS OF MONEY A TEXAS TAX WRITE-OFF HAS BECOME AN INTERSTATE MONEYMAKER ON THE DEREGULATED HIGHWAY SYSTEM"MY GENERATION BELIEVES WE CAN DO ALMOST ANYTHING."PEACE IS AN XCELLENT ADVENTURE IN THE ABSENCE OF WAR, A GENERATION FINDS ITS PLACE IN THE WORLDNOWHERE TO RUN THIS YEAR'S TWISTER DID NOT HAVE ANY HOLLYWOOD GLAMOUR. IT WAS A WHIRLING TERRORIST THAT TURNED A TOWN INTO RUBBLE IN MINUTESTHE BEST UPTURN EVER OUR BOARD OF ECONOMISTS AGREES: THIS U.S. EXPANSION IS SOMETHING SPECIALTHE GENTLE COSMIC RAIN DON'T WORRY IF YOU MISSED HALE-BOPP; AS MANY AS 43,000 SMALLER COMETS COULD REACH EARTH TODAYAIRBORNE PROFITS MIDWEST EXPRESS HAS DONE WELL BY TREATING ITS UPSCALE PASSENGERS WELLFALLEN ARCHES WITH MARKET SATURATION AND CHANGING TASTES SLICING INTO MCDONALD'S ONCE CERTAIN GROWTH, NO WONDER SOME FRANCHISEES ARE CRANKYCoverGREAT XPECTATIONS SLACKERS? HARDLY. THE SO-CALLED GENERATION X TURNS OUT TO BE FULL OF GO-GETTERS WHO ARE JUST DOING IT--BUT THEIR WAY