Table of ContentsRussia's Election Surprise Putin gets a boost as a new centrist party scores a coupLight Trucks And Dirty Air New rules will require SUVs to clean up their actA Halfway Win For Gay CouplesThe Odd Fellows The unconventional life of Andy Kaufman proves perfect for Hollywood's Boswells of the offbeatLaundered And Hung Out To Dry Feds use a bogus stock firm to nab traffickersThomas Jefferson (1743-1826) A political visionary's "expression of the American mind" still inspires revolution around the worldThe Arts: 100 Years Of Attitude How modernism became classic and how modernity is racing beyond everyone's graspThe Children Of Gandhi His strategy of nonviolence has spawned generations of spiritual heirs around the worldFranklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) He raised the edifice of the American Century by restoring a nation's promise of plenty and by intervening to save a world enveloped in darknessThe TIME Centennial News QuizThe Necessary Evil? Why all Adolf Hitler's destructiveness is not enough to make him Person of the CenturyWho Mattered And WhyLettersMilestonesJohann Gutenberg (c. 1395-1468) The obscure printer's innovation kindled reformations and a yet unfinished information revolutionWhen Centuries Collide Spirits haunt the millennium's last hours as a new global order takes shapeContributorsWatch What You Eat Can consumer power save the planet?Writers For The CenturyNew Year's Evil? Federal agents are scrambling to stop a new Y2K worry: terrorA Brief History of Relativity What is it? How does it work? Why does it change everything? An easy primer by the world's most famous living physicistGenghis Khan (c.1167-1227) The world conqueror swept through Asia like an apocalypse and set in motion forces more powerful than the swordEulogyTIME's Atlas Of The MillenniumAlbert Einstein (1879-1955) He was the pre-eminent scientist in a century dominated by science. The touchstones of the era--the Bomb, the Big Bang, quantum physics and electronics--all bear his imprintCaptain Courageous The U.S. President weighs F.D.R.'s legacy and finds timeless fortitude, persistence and respect for the common manThe Web We Weave We've had the Internet in many forms over the centuries, creating a collective mind that thinks faster and fasterGiotto (c. 1267-1337) With his brush, the severity of religious icons melted into warm humanity, and the face of the Godlike became the face of manThomas Edison (1847-1931) His inventions not only reshaped modernity but also promised a future bounded only by creativityChristmas Postponed After the big e-holiday: a mountain of packages, a blizzard of complaintsEntombed In The Mud Tragedy in Venezuela: rain mixes with povertyPeople Of The CenturyNotebook Of The CenturyIndicators Of The CenturyUnfinished Symphony Strings may do what Einstein finally failed to do: tie together the two great irreconcilable ideas of 20th century physicsMohandas Gandhi (1869-1948) In an age of empire and military might, he proved that the powerless had power and that force of arms would not forever prevail against force of spiritTIME Picks A Person Of Each Century, From 1000 To 1900 William The Conqueror (c. 1027-1087) The Norman took what he believed was his--England--and pioneered state bureaucracy amid Europe's chaosQueen Elizabeth I (1533-1603) The goddess of the Reformation defeated Europe's greatest power and set Britain on its epic journey to empireThe Best Of The CenturyWhy The Stock Market Keeps RisingResolutions Without The Guilt Don't get bogged down by Y2K gravitas. Your duty is to keep it trivialThe Age Of Einstein He became, almost despite himself, the emblem of all that was new, original and unsettling in the modern ageA Paean To A Pop PostmodernistSaladin (c. 1138-1193) The Kurdish adventurer proved to the Crusaders that God had no trouble favoring an "infidel"The Sacred Warrior The liberator of South Africa looks at the seminal work of the liberator of IndiaOur Evolving Culture A short history of four simple ideas and how they changed the way we dream, travel, learn and walkIsaac Newton (1642-1727) His scientific search for a grand design in the universe overturned ancient assumptionsCoverPoor Grade For Vouchers A judge flunks Cleveland's use of vouchers for parochial schools. But will that stall the movement?Wall Street's Deep Throat A banker is charged with passing tips to an X star
