Table of ContentsAround the World in 20 Days After two decades of failed attempts, a balloon sails into history with the help of technology and the weatherKosovo's Army in WaitingWho Built The First Computer?Divided by 10,000 It's a big-stock world, but there's unusual value in small companies. Will they ever rally?ContributorsThe King And I Directed by Richard RichCampaign 2000 Hillary Hears Strains of The Music She Will FaceJohn von Neumann: Computing's Cold WarriorMillennium Fevers In her absorbing new novel, Gail Godwin tracks modern maladies into a mountain townRobert Noyce: MicrochipNumbersAstronomer Edwin Hubble He saw a vast universe beyond the Milky Way, then found the first hints that it began with a Big BangAviators THE WRIGHT BROTHERS A pair of self-taught engineers working in a bicycle shop, they made the world a forever smaller placeHousingVannevar Bush: Hypertext ProphetVirologist JONAS SALK Many scientists were racing to make a polio vaccine in the '50s--but he got there firstThe Corruptor Directed by James FoleyElectrical Engineer PHILO FARNSWORTH The key to the television picture tube came to him at 14, when he was still a farm boy, and he had a working device at 21. Yet he died in obscurityPatrick Steptoe and Robert Edwards: Brave New Baby DoctorsNuclear Winter Russian Prime Minister Primakov's visit this week highlights a growing chill with the U.S.The Bush Rolodex If George W. wants his campaign to look different from his dad's, why is he enlisting Dad's staff?Margaret MeadEconomist JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES His radical idea that governments should spend money they don't have may have saved capitalismHelp-Line Hell Now that you have to pay for support when your PC goes on the fritz, whom are you going to call?Chemist LEO BAEKELAND Setting out to make an insulator, he invented the first true plastic and transformed the worldClick Here for Love A Foreign Affair offers lonely hearts an electronic emporium of brides onlineBut Yeltsin Only Purges After He DrinksComputer Scientist ALAN TURING While addressing a problem in the arcane field of mathematical logic, he imagined a machine that could mimic human reasoning. Sound familiar?Anthropologists THE LEAKEY FAMILY Without the groundbreaking--and backbreaking--efforts of Louis, Mary and Richard, the story of how we evolved would still be largely untoldFuturama Fox, TuesdaysPlaybillHow We've Become DigitalThe IQ Meritocracy Our test-obsessed society has Binet and Terman to thank-- or to blameIt's Like, You Know... It's Like Pretty FunnyYour MoneyMilestonesCranks... Villains... ...And Unsung Heroes The century gave us scientific superstars like Freud and Einstein, but it also produced its share of...Your TechnologyCoverSecrets, Part Two Another Case of High-Tech High Jinks?Bertrand RussellJacques-Yves Cousteau: Lord Of The DepthsRocket Scientist ROBERT GODDARD He launched the space age with a 10-ft. rocket in a New England cabbage fieldPsychoanalyst SIGMUND FREUD He opened a window on the unconscious--where, he said, lust, rage and repression battle for supremacy--and changed the way we view ourselvesSolid-State Physicist WILLIAM SHOCKLEY He fathered the transistor and brought the silicon to Silicon Valley but is remembered by many only for his noxious racial viewsAtomic Physicist ENRICO FERMI He was the last of the double-threat physicists: a genius at creating both esoteric theories and elegant experimentsA Century of SciencePutting Science To Work Sometimes the greatest inventions are the ones with the most mundane uses. These ideas quickly found their way into everyday lifeTalking With a Queen Jordan's Noor speaks about King Hussein's death and her futureDeath at the Crossing A few hours outside Chicago, a fiery catastrophe ensues after a fabled train hits a flat-bed truckGet Some Sleep Bothered by insomnia? A study says changing your habits is more effective than taking pillsA True Visual Sensualist Modernists once dismissed John Singer Sargent's society portraits. They were wrongBoxing Advice from the HulksterJoey McIntyreSecrets, Part One The Fallout from Nuclear Leaks to ChinaAmy Musher's MailbagSnakebit By David Marshall GrantThe Engines Of Creation Will Eric Drexler's nanotechnology do for the next century what silicon chips did for this?Watson on PaulingIan Wilmut: Breaking The Clone BarrierPhysicist ALBERT EINSTEIN The scientific touchstones of the modern age--the Bomb, space travel, electronics, quantum physics--all bear his imprintPhilosopher LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN He began by trying to reduce all mathematics to logic and ended by finding most metaphysics to be nonsenseThe Frame Game Illinois prosecutors are charged with falsifying evidence in a murder trial. And around the country, people wonder, Can cops and district attorneys be trusted?Mathematician KURT GODEL He turned the lens of mathematics on itself and hit upon his famous "incompleteness theorem"--driving a stake through the heart of formalismMolecular Biologists WATSON & CRICK It took an ex-physicist and a former ornithology student-- along with some unwitting help from a competitor--to crack the secret of lifeReady to Rumble Again Milosevic chooses defiance over compromise, and the military situation in Kosovo deterioratesPeopleA Century Of Science Fiction A master of the genre contends that it boasts an impressive predictive track record--if you squint hard and ignore most of the evidenceThinkers vs. Tinkerers, and Other DebatesCandidate Truth WatchFamous for Being Famous Now this actor can be famous for being goodNotebookYour HealthThe Norm Show Macdonald Buys the Comedy FarmIt's The Stupidity, Stupid By Harry ShearerBeyond Kitty HawkBacteriologist ALEXANDER FLEMING A spore that drifted into his lab and took root on a culture dish started a chain of events that altered forever the treatment of bacterial infectionsLettersChild Psychologist Jean Piaget He found the secrets of human learning and knowledge hidden behind the cute and seemingly illogical notions of childrenEnvironmentalist RACHEL CARSON Before there was an environmental movement, there was one brave woman and her very brave bookPayne Alas, a Painful Turn in Larroquette's CareerNetwork Designer TIM BERNERS-LEE From the thousands of interconnected threads of the Internet, he wove the World Wide Web and created a mass medium for the 21st centuryWhat's Next? The pace of discovery is likely to accelerate, says the former editor of NatureThe Future Never Came Blur's new album, 13, has an experimental spirit but no focus amid all its electronica distortionsSaving the SalmonEvidence Of Murder A Yosemite mystery deepens after two bodies are discoveredEaster Ain't Just For Bunnies...Paul Erdos: The Oddball's OddballFighting AIDS Penicillin was the magic bullet against bacteria, but what will stop HIV?The Great Minds Of The CenturyWhere Anthropology Meets Psychology
