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ZEN-APHOBIA
An odyssey through
the world of acupuncture and hot rock healing leaves an oil-smeared
former New Age virgin unconverted
FEAR
OF MULTIETHNIC MAN
In California,
a bank robber eludes justice because eyewitnesses disagree on his
race
VACATION
NATION
Why are so many
people trying to get away from it all? Because they can.
UNZIPPED
How the advertising
industry manipulates women. Or, why you won't find salvation in
a Nike sports bra.
FUZZY
LOGIC
A virtual-reality
pioneer insists that computers are too dumb to take over the world
TIPS
FOR YOUR BRACKETS
Sorting the NCAA
wheat from the chaff
SINFULLY
SEDUCTIVE
Win, lose or
draw, Las Vegas is a great time
IT'S
ABOUT TIME
Time banks bring
barter into the 21st century
HOW
MARCH WENT MAD
The phenomenal
rise of the NCAA men's basketball tournament
CALLING
THE CODE
Felix Navajo
code talkers make a long walk toward recognition
SPY
LIKE US?
Felix Bloch,
one of the great unsolved mysteries of Cold War espionage, is back
in the headlines--and still driving a bus in North Carolina
THE
GAME OF LIFE
As work pressures
mount and free time dwindles, it's more important than ever to recapture
the joy of play
OUT
EARLY
Gay and Lesbian
teens are shaping a new sexual revolution
CRYING
GAME
It cries! It
coos! It wakes you up in the middle of the night! Baby Think It
Over is a seven-pound, computerized contraceptive.
BEHIND
THE CANVAS CURTAIN
There's nothing
exotic about circus life. It's just another hard way to earn a living.
FIRST
SPARK
With a jolt from
Mr. Electrico, Ray Bradbury was hooked
IF
THE SHOE FITS...
Fun and games
with Nike
THE
BRIGHT STUFF
What really lurks
inside the Mensa mind?
ALL
BALL
Fast, furious
and fledgling, the ABA offers what the NBA can't: Fun
BEING
JOHN MCENROE
A profile of
the most creative and cantankerous tennis player of all time
TO
THE MOON
From Alaska to
Niagara, honeymoon destinations for all kinds of couples
CORE
MEMORY
Digging through
digital detritus at the Computer Museum History Center
CHILDLESS...
WITH CHILDREN
Thanks to co-parenting,
people who don't want kids of their own can still have kids in their
lives
VIRTUAL
INSANITY & SALVATION
Technological
dream world is a new therapeutic tool
QUESTION
OF FAITH?
After nearly
2,000 years of Christianity, does Jesus have a future in the new
millennium?
SMOKE
& FIRE
Jacqui "Sister
Smoke" Frazier-Lyde, daughter of Smokin' Joe Frazier, wants to kick
the butt of Muhammad Ali's daughter
CREDIT
GAMES
Two reporters
investigate their very different credit ratings
LET'S
GET PERSONAL
Six pros help
a woman craft a personals ad, to surprisingly good effect
WOMEN
WHO RUN WITH WOLVES
Will female contestants
lead the pack at this year's Iditarod?
IS
MARRIAGE DEAD?
A look at the
state of our unions
ROUND
& ROUND
Ready or not,
the eighties are back
BILLBOARDS
ON A ROLL
Ad-wrapped cars
take bumper stickers to a new level
PERSIAN
MOSAIC
Two decades after
the hostage crisis, Americans still have trouble piecing together
an accurate picture of Iran
TRAVEL
QUEST
Contemporary
pilgrimages are voyages of self-discovery
THE
10 MOST UNDERRATED TOWNS IN AMERICA
These great American
cities, once dismissed as bad news, deserve another look
YOU'LL
LOVE L.A.
You might not
want to live there, but there's a lot of fun to be had in Los Angeles
BAD
JOB! BAD JOB!
Think your gig
is the pits? You've probably got nothing on these folks.
CAN
WE TALK?
Despite decades
of research and a host of new therapies, the cure for America's
3 million stutterers remains unknown
EYES
ONLY
Laser-vision
correction promises big benefits
HEDGING
ALLEGIANCE
For old-time
Baltimore Colts fans, there's a nagging ambivalence toward watching
the Ravens sail off to the Super Bowl
KASHMIR'S
AGONY
A visitor finds
the divided land heavenly and hellish
DESIGNER
PEOPLE
The days of parents
picking their children's genes from a catalog may not be far off
WAITING
TO INHALE
Imagine being
allergic to everything, including your own home
DOWN
A NEW ROAD
Electric and
hybrid vehicles represent a bridge to a cleaner future
LOSING
THE GENDER WAR
Are conservative
feminists creating a brave new world of submissive women?
HALL
OF FAME GAME
Who gets into
the Baseball Hall of Fame and why?
KINGDOM
COME
The market for
female pleasure drugs is wide open. Is a female version of Viagra
what women really want?
SPIKED
Don't like beer?
Drink down these affordable alternatives.
WHEN
KIDS GET CLEAVAGE
Environmental
compounds could be the cause for early examples of female puberty
MUSHROOM
CLOUDS OVER NEVADA
50 years later,
the tragedy of nuclear tests
THOU
SHALT NOT OVEREAT
Resolve to slim
down in 2001? Diet books are filled with theories on why we overindulge,
and how we can cure the urge to stuff ourselves.
SIMPLY
THE WORST
Throwing a monkey
wrench at the 10 worst companies of 2000
AN
OUTSIDE LIFE
The all-true
account of how a middle-class girl became a modern-day homeless
hobo
PULL
TO THE RIGHT
Tips for staying
cool--and out of jail--when the cops flag you down
NEW
DAY RISING
How a cadre of
cultural creatives is reshaping society's future
WHAT'S
YOUR PARTY TYPE?
Discover the
secret to your own ideal New Year's event
BEARING
WITH IT
Residents grapple
with the government's decision to bring grizzly bears back to western
Montana
RIDING
THE RAILS
The California
Zephyr is a great way to see, and meet, America
FEELS
LIKE TEAM SPIRIT
For the new-breed
Detroit Pistons, W-O-R-K is how you spell respect
TALKING
TO THE MAN
An exclusive
interview with the jolly one himself
ZOOM
ZOOM ZOOM
The more you
hurry, the more you fall behind. Sound familiar? You might be a
chronic multitasker.
ODDITIES
OF SCIENCE
Think science
isn't funny? Guess again.
SHOPPING
FOR SIMPLICITY
The holiday season
gives Americans the perfect opportunity to rethink their consumption
habits
DREAMS
BEFORE DINNER
Three caterers
take the challenge: Imagine the perfect party, and then make it
happen
COMING
DOWN WITH AFFLUENZA
America's new
social disease: Too much quick wealth
SUBWAY
STOP
Even worse than
Starbucks, crappy sandwiches are coming to a storefront near you
THIS
HURTS ME MORE THAN IT HURTS YOU
Laid off by a
dot-com? A guide to keeping your bitterness intact.
FREAKS
IN TOYLAND
This holiday
season, thrill that special someone with Death Row Marv, Dr. Drill
and other weird gifts from the wild side
DIALING
FOR DOLLARS
Is there anything
telephone psychics won't do to keep their customers talking?
A
WORK OF ART
They're handing
out the Heisman Trophy in New York Saturday night. Sure, the selection
process is dubious, but is there a more appealing trophy in all
of sports?
TOY
STORIES
What are our
toys trying to tell us?
THE
COURTS & THE COUNT
Reagan-Bush appointees
to the U.S. Supreme Court seem ready to enforce legal technicalities
that could ensure Texas Gov. George W. Bush's election
JAGGED
LITTLE PILL
RU-486 isn't
cheap, and it's not pain-free
THE
OLD COLLEGE TRY
The Bush-Gore
fiasco shows the electoral system at its worst
BASEBALL'S
CRUEL POLITICAL SATIRE
An email rumor
about an interview with the presidential candidates is an obvious
caricature, and apparently true
DOLLAR
SIGNS
From debit cards
to online banking, new technology is changing the way we deal with
money
SAVE
THE PLANET & GET RICH
Can environmentalists
meet big business halfway?
WHATEVER
WORKS
The election
mess underscores that our government was not designed to work efficiently
HANDING
IT TO BUSH
Though battling
recounts in three Democratic counties, George W. Bush benefited
from hand recounts elsewhere in the close Florida race
SO
SUE ME!
Pre-Paid Legal
Services put a legal pit-bull in your pocket
MICROCHIP
CHILDREN
Cyborg citizens
are no longer the stuff of science fiction
DIVIDED
THEY FALL?
Election mess
highlights the rift between Democrats and the Left
HOLIDAY
SHIFT
Wanted: White-bearded
man with nice lap and good kidneys
THE
CEO WORE TENNIS SHOES
Farrah Gray is
barely old enough to drive, but the millionaire entrepreneur is
already racing to the top
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO...
A compendium of
those lost but not totally forgotten--Bo Jackson? Mr. T? Barbara
Feldon?
ADDICTED TO HIGH-TECH SPEED
Email, cell phones
and other inventions accelerate the pace of our lives, but at what
cost?
VICTOR BEWARE
The loser of the
presidential election might someday be happy to have avoided the
White House--and "Tecumseh's Curse"
TRANSITION GAME
A scaled-back International
Basketball League tries to launch another season
SEPARATION OF CHURCH & SCOUTS
Across the country,
congregations and families try to square their egalitarian religious
values with their attachment to the Boy Scouts
FIGHT FOR YOUR WRITE-IN RIGHT
Even in the U.S.,
voting for a candidate of choice has sometimes landed citizens behind
bars
BEYOND THOSE PANTS
Read the Rolling
Stone interview with Al Gore
BIG PIMPIN'
Why Gore's getting
the black vote
CAMPAIGN BUTTONS
Don't let a lack
of information stop you from casting a ballot that counts. Here's
a crash course on the best sites to visit before election day.
NOWHERE MAN
George W. Bush
is not a man of international travel, though he may soon become
the leader of the world's last superpower
COLLEGE EXAM
If the Electoral
College system goes haywire, Dick Cheney could be our next president
VIRGINS MAKE A DIFFERENCE
Meet the last uncynical
voting group in America
ALIEN VISION
Is humanity the
result of an alien genetic experiment? The Raelian Movement examined.
GOING APE
The Chimpanzoo
program encourages more researchers to swing into the Goodall fight
KING OF COMEDY
A new compilation
reminds us just what a trailblazer Richard Pryor was
BRING THE PAIN
Pain is essential
and transcendence is the goal as body art moves beyond piercing
and tattoos
BLOWN AWAY
Herbal tonics for
seasonal colds
SEASON OF THE WITCH
Witchcraft, or
Wicca, is one of the country's fastest-growing and most tolerant
religions. So why do witches still scare people?
DR. DIVORCE
Valerie Hale undertakes
a personal and professional crusade to do divorce right
MOSQUITO BITES
A wooden plane,
a top-secret mission, and one man's part in the fall of Nazi Germany
SOUND. FURY. NOTHING
A reporter seeks
answers to this year's political malaise at a Ralph Nader rally,
only to come away with more questions
WOMEN IN FOOTBALL
Katie Hnida made
the team at Colorado, but when Duke cut Heather Mercer, it set the
stage for a landmark discrimination case
GETTING LEI'D
Believe it or not,
a trip to Hawaii is not as expensive as it seems. And if you're
smart, it can be your paradise vacation.
CAN'T BUY ME CONTENTMENT
Why people are
less happy in materialistic societies
FROM THE ASHES
Women's tennis
coach Eric Riley works to change the face of the game
SPREAD THE WEALTH
15 Ways to practice
the art of philanthropy
CULTURE VULTURES
Fashion junkies
abound in mainstream America
LAST RITES
Capital punishment
doesn't stand a ghost of a chance against Sister Helen Prejean
KILL THE CLUTTER
Earth-friendly
tips for reducing garbage
BEHIND THE FLAMES
A writer recounts
his tour of duty on Montana's fire lines
HEAD CASE
Author Cathy Crimmins
thought she'd lost her husband, Al, in a freak accident. The worst--and
best--was yet to come.
ROCK STAR
Chris Sharma, a
daring young climber who works without a net, is redefining the
sport of bouldering
SONY'S TRIPLE PLAY
PlayStation 2 gives
you three entertainment options in one--if you can find it
POLITICAL CLOUT
Campaign 2000:
Sammy Sosa and Ken Griffey Jr. chase the most important home-run
record of all--most dingers during a presidency
ALL TOMORROW'S PARTIES
Examining electronic
music and dance culture in the post-rave world
QUESTION OF CHARACTER
The buzzphrase
in schools is "character education," but is it here to stay?
SEASONED GALS
What happens when
prostitutes grow older? In some cases, they get wiser.
LOVE & WHITE SOX
A Chicago writer
looks at this baseball season's biggest surprise--and a team unloved
in their own city
LET'S MAKE A DEAL
Why Smith & Wesson
broke ranks with their NRA brethren and signed a deal with the feds
REENGINEERING NANCY
How an unhappy
fat man became a trim, confident dyke
RAISING A GLASS
The oft-messy art
of DIY winemaking
NO CLASS
Former students
share their most harrowing school experiences
PLASTIC SURGERY GOES SOUTH
The latest trend
from L.A. is designer laser surgery for the nether regions
MONTH OF SUNDAYS
Exploring the movement
to give Americans four weeks' vacation
HARDWIRED HELP
No dream of the
future, robots are already becoming part of our lives
GENERATION GAPS
Grandparents are
taking on child-rearing roles once again
WHO YOU CALLIN' "HONEY"?
Women bartenders
pour out tales of idiot customers
WORKING LIKE A DOG
Smart, energetic
and eager to please, service dogs get the job done
CLONING CHRIST
The Second Coming
Project wants to bring Jesus back to life in a lab
IMPERFECT UNIONS
Does organized
labor make sense for young Americans?
CLOTHES ENCOUNTERS
At summer's end,
why not take one last--fully clothed--dip in the pool?
PARADISE UNDER CONSTRUCTION
A 12-foot-high
island is being built in the Gulf of Mexico as a nesting habitat
for colonial waterbirds.
THE NEW NUCLEAR FAMILY
Nicolas has two
daddies
SIMPLE FASHION FOR SIMPLE MEN
What to wear when
the jeans-and-T-shirt routine won't cut it anymore.
MAKING THE CUT
From hair hierarchy
to tipping etiquette, it's the salon story straight from the floor
TO SCHOOL TOO YOUNG?
Someone should
pass a law to keep 18-year-olds out of college
FIGHTING A TWO-FRONT WAR
The black soldiers
of the 99th, who fought a segregationist U.S. military as well as
the Nazis, are the WWII vets the Army would rather forget
SIMPLY RICH
Some high-tech
hotshots say they've found the simple life. But only a few can afford
to keep it real, Silicon Valley-style.
MONEY, LOVE, GREED & LUST
The still-unfinished
story of the Las Vegas millionaire murder
PRISONER OF CONSCIENCE
School of the Americas
protester Judy Bierbaum serves federal time for her beliefs
THE EDUCATION OF JOE LIEBERMAN
A Connecticut Senator
in King Al Gore's court
ARE THE KIDS ALL RIGHT?
Ecstasy grows in
popularity among drug users
MURDER.COM
The New Hampshire
killing of Amy Boyer triggered a national debate on Internet crime.
But was the Web really to blame for her death?
GLOVE STORY
From streetside
to ringside with the Umar Boxing Club
NEW HOPE FOR THE MENTALLY ILL
Bringing treatment
that works to the streets
FROM GRILL LOSS TO GRILL BOSS
Tired of wienies
and beer? You too can become master of the patio.
URBAN MOUNTAINEERING 2000
Jinx Magazine takes
its urban exploration initiative to the Manhattan Bridge
CREATING A CRISIS
Actors in The Crisis
Company train cops by playing hostage-takers and terrorist types
WORKING BLIND
Even with adaptive
technology and determination, vision-impaired folks often find it
difficult to land a job
MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE
Cross-dressing
men walk the thin line between male and female, often bringing their
wives and girlfriends into the act
UNCONVENTIONAL WISDOM
Getting into characters
at the GOP gathering
CELEBRITY BIGOTS
John Rocker, Dr.
Laura, Eminem, Don Imus--why is hate so hot?
BULL MARKET
Bucking bulls have
the guts and glory in the rodeo world
HUFFING & BUFFING
Modern males now
feel the way many women have felt for years: highly imperfect and
desperate for improvement
GROWING UP NUCLEAR
A meditation from
Ground Zero
CONFESSIONS OF AN UNDERAGE DAY TRADER
He's too young
to buy a beer, but he makes more than 100K a year dealing in high-volume
stocks
SOUNDS OF SCIENCE
Will the Internet
kill record stores?
CHASING DREAMS ON THE MOTHER ROAD
Taking a cruise
down fabled Route 66
CYBERCULTURE 2000
Net pioneers R.U.
Sirius and Justin Hall look back, forward and sideways
SEARCH FOR THE HOLY GRILL
The thinking woman's
guide to grilling
SAIL OF THE CENTURY
Was the lesson
from the Amistad incident a great civil rights victory or an example
of African triumph? A new replica ship keeps questions afloat.
SPIN CYCLING
Are Critical Mass
rides effective in raising bike awareness?
FROM BABYLON TO WISDOM
Chasing metaphors
and seeing visions at the Rainbow Gathering
GREAT PRETENDERS
Fans find joy and
justice in fantasy sports leagues
BRIDAL BOUNTY
Ritual of the registry
gets some new twists
STRAIGHT WITH HIV
In today's dating
scene, explanations, combination-therapy cocktails and supersafe
sex are just part of the complicated life of an HIV-infected man
PLAYING MR. MOM
More men are taking
time off work to enjoy fatherhood
NUMBERS GAME
Cracking the secret
word of the census
HACKED OFF
Eight things hackers
hate about you
USE
YOUR HEAD
Can you control
your mind and your future with neurofeedback?
'STER
CRAZY
Another old-economy
business model prepares to join the vinyl record in the nostalgia
bin, thanks to Napster
PAST
IMPERFECT
Why Americans still
think history is bunk
THE
BARBIE FORMULA
The entertainment
industry is finally creating culture that's "for women, by women."
But is this the drivel we've been waiting for?
ONE
BROKEN BODY
In churches and
convention centers, the nation's mainline Protestants debate--and
divide--over gay rights
SPIN
CITY
With hip-hop and
house blowing up the underground, DJ-centered genres head the most
revolutionary musical movement in decades
LIFE
AFTER WARTIME
Albanians try to
rebuild in Kosova
THE
LONE RANGER
Green Party presidential
hopeful Ralph Nader may be a real force come fall
WAITING
TO EXHALE
Jim Farris needed
lung surgery, but Medicare balked at paying to save his life
RUN
AT YOUR OWN RISK
Modern-day bounty
hunters hustle to keep thugs off the street
THE
COWBOY WAY
Utah Gay Rodeo
offers a new take on an old West tradition
BLACK
POWERS
Blaxploitation
movies and Black Nationalism weren't two peas in a pod
FAN-TASTIC
An age-old cooling
device lives on as cultural icon
NOW
IT'S PERSONAL
What, you mean
you don't have your own chef yet?
BABIES
BEHIND BARS
Inmates serve hard
time with their infants in a prison nursery
POOL
CUES
The life of an
urban lifeguard is nothing like "Baywatch"
JUST
SAY NOMAR
The secret appeal
of the man with the schnoz
SOUR
MASH
Wherein we taste-test
the new crop of hard lemonades
IN
REALITY
MTV's "The Real
World" descends on New Orleans
TABLE
FOR ONE
A vacation to Jamaica
proves that everyone is welcome to relax in the sunshine--except
single women, apparently
BLOODY
ETHICS
As companies try
to create the perfect online gaming world, they come up against
the dark side of human nature
DIGITAL
DOWNLOAD DISCONNECT
The fight between
Napster and record companies for control of the music industry disguises
the fact that music fans will get the shaft
QUEER
BY CHOICE?
The notion that
a person can make a conscious decision regarding his or her sexuality
throws a wrench into the nature vs. nurture debate
BURNING
ZEAL
Arson investigators
battle the odds to smoke out firebugs
NEED
TWO?
Scoring tickets
when none apparently remain is a fine art
DOGFIGHTING
IN PHILLY
A pit bull trained
for fighting is as frightening a killing machine as you'll find
anywhere
WING
AND A PRAYER
Butterfly enthusiasts
may be loving them into extinction
I
WANT A HAMBURGER. NO, I WANT A CHEESEBURGER...
At some point or
another, we have all been a restaurant's Customer From Hell
DIDN'T
YOU USED TO BE SOMEBODY?
A compendium of
pop culture icons lost but not forgotten
MANY
ARE CALLED...
Faith that women
priests will one day be ordained
DOT
BONDING
Dotcoms revolutionized
the workplace with perks and play, but some say the formula is just
a variation on an old theme: their money, your life
FLIES
ON THE WALL
In which a journalist
and a faded rock star horn in on a porno shoot
AMONG
THE PEZHEADS
Aside from celebrating
their addiction, PEZ fans come to conventions because they love
to meet each other
GENERATION
NEXT
College campuses
ring with debate over the life, death and redefinition of feminism
FOR
BETTER & FOR WORSE
Gay civil unions
are now law in Vermont, but elsewhere the battle is just getting
started
SELL
OUT TO THE MAN
Smart ideas for
landing your next job
MA
BARKERS
When it comes to
gun control, can a million moms be wrong?
NO
PURCHASE REQUIRED
Napster may not
end the music biz as we know it, but other programs probably will
WEB
TICKLERS
Stuart Wade bones
up on the funny sites vying for the Webby Award in Humor
AND
THE LOSER IS...
Matt Welch predicts
which Webby nominees will be dead this time next year
GREAT
SPORTS
Stuart Wade scores
an in-depth look at the Webby Awards nominees in Sports
DISCOUNTING
DADDY
In matters of child
custody, fathers too often get a raw deal
STREAM
OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Author Sherman
Alexie talks about his brushes with Hollywood, his favorite TV show
and the strange things white people do to him at readings
RISKY
BUSINESS
How hard is it
to make gambling pay the bills?
GUARDED
SECRETS
The killing of
a Texas prison guard exposes a world of intimidation and corruption
CLASSY
WARFARE
A San Francisco
prostitute details her eye-opening adventure in a Nevada brothel
FUTUREBALL
Internationalization
lies ahead for baseball
PROGRAMMED
TO DECEIVE
Radio tries to
kill indie rock, but it just keeps on rolling
BORN
BETTER?
A controversial
book dissects the success of black athletes
TOO
MUCH TO SWALLOW?
We've never had
a male equivalent of the pill, but there are more prospects on the
horizon than you might think
GUIDE
TO GUIDED TOURING
A tour group is
like an endless, round-robin blind date. But there are ways to cope.
MAKE
LOVE, NOT DEBT
Behind the lines
with World Bank protesters in Washington, D.C.
COLUMBINE
CULPRITS
Was the NRA responsible
for a tragedy?
THE
ROAD TO INVISIBLE
Follow this radical
road map to reclaim your privacy
RUG RAT RAGE
Why adolescent
anger is showing up in grade-schoolers
ANYWHERE
BUT THERE
Investigating Jamaica's
reeducation camp for troubled teens
SOAKING
THE RICH
The good news about
taxes: For most of us, the bite's not as bad as we think
SPRING
FLING
If the prospect
of spring cleaning has you down, mop up these tips from a professional
organizer
ENERGY
OUTLAWS
Alternative-energy
fans fight big power companies with their own juice
REAL
PERSONAL
It's shocking how
much of your private information is out there for the taking
UNIVERSAL
APPEAL
It's time for national
health care--again
SEEDS
OF REVOLUTION
Seed-swapping farmers
practice a 12,000-year-old tradition--and a form of anti-corporate
war
STATE
OF GRACE
He got more hits
than any other player in Major League Baseball in the 1990s, and
now Mark Grace enters the 21st century as the new Mr. Cub
THE
LAST TREE HUGGER
After two high-profile
years in a giant redwood, Julia Butterfly Hill has hit the ground
running, determined to save the nation's ancient trees
PATAGONIAN
ICE
Walking on an Argentinean
glacier is really cool
SUICIDE
WATCH
Trying to understand
why people kill themselves
HOW
MARCH WENT MAD
Charting the phenomenal
rise of the NCAA men's basketball tournament
ADVENTURES
IN BACKPACKING
Exploring the tribe
of the full-time traveler
BEYOND
ELIAN
Exploring the Cuba
that remains hidden behind the headlines
GRAPPLING
GIRLS
Female wrestlers
from gradeschool to college age pin stereotypes to the mat
YOU'RE
SO VAIN
Why is male vanity
rising faster than Bob Dole on Viagra?
NIGHT
MOVES
Dancing for tips
at a gentlemen's club
WATCHING
THE DETECTIVES
Yes, they do stakeouts.
No, they don't generally carry weapons. Yes, they get death threats.
Get the scoop on some real-life private eyes.
WE
DO
As American families
grow more complex, wedding ceremonies expand accordingly
BUSTING
CLUTTER
A professional
organizer attempts to sort out our acquisitive human nature
SXSW
SHOWDOWN
If you missed South
By Southwest, our 18 fest features will get you up to speed
MONEY
MADNESS
Cash is king in
college basketball
SAVING
THE WORLD
Socially responsible
investing means putting your money where your morals are
REELING
IN THE YEARS
Cinematic head
trips abound at this year's SXSW Film Festival
LOSING
OUR MINDS
Many Americans
believe in government conspiracies--and why not?
MARCHING
INTO MADNESS
This weekend's
announcement of NCAA basketball tourney picks begins the countdown
to the Big Dance
HAIL
TO THE VEEPS
Who will the presidential
nominees choose to round out their tickets?
RULES
OF GREEN THUMB
Dig these down-to-earth
gardening tips
THE
GREAT DIVIDE
The debate over
school vouchers is more complex than left vs. right
INTESTINAL
DETECTIVES
A specialized diagnostic
lab sniffs out the facts about your health
BURGER
NATION
How fast-food joints
nationalized our dining experience
DITCHWEED
DIGS IN
Miracle crop? Dangerous
drug? Political football? Exploring America's on-again, off-again
love affair with hemp.
REINVENTING
GORE
After years of
denying his liberalism, Al's out of the closet
FINDING
MY RELIGION
Using pop music,
the Web and other non-traditional means, young adults are rediscovering
religion
HOPE
FOR BEATING MS
A Vanderbilt researcher
revolutionizes detection and treatment
THE
EVICTOR
Terry Searcy wrote
a book to tell their stories. But first he's got to put their stuff
out on the curb.
EMAIL
FROM A STAGGERING GENIUS
America's fastest-rising
literary star--you know, that McSweeney's guy Dave Eggers--discusses
the fuss over "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius"
RIDING
THE LOVE BUS
On the road with
John McCain--and the media horde that adores him
CUNNING
LINGUIST
Few experts have
had as great an impact on 20th century thought as controversial
linguist Noam Chomsky
FULL
PLATES
As restaurant portions
balloon, so do American waistlines
OFF
THE CHARTS
Have women rockers
run out of time?
THE
MONKEY BUSINESS
When an Oregon
biologist creates a rhesus monkey named Tetra, a misinformed media
swings into action
QUESTIONING
TESTS
Multiple-choice
scores might create standards, but they don't create an education
PEACE
& RICE
The activists of
Food Not Bombs cook up a potent political message
NATURAL
URGES
Botanica Erotica
concocts a line of holistic sex products
NATURAL
SELECTION
More consumers--and
the companies serving them--are losing their taste for genetically
modified foods
SPECIAL
DELIVERIES
Midwives go mainstream
PROTEIN
SHAKERS
Grilling the doctors
behind "The Protein Power Lifeplan" about the benefits and risks
of high-protein diets
NET
THREAT
Big business wants
to control your broadband gateway to the Web
ACES
IN THE HOLE
Take an underground
tour of the Western Hemisphere's largest missile complex
ISTANBUL
101
From bazaars to
the bizarre, a hundred (and one) ways to have fun in Istanbul
SILICON
SPECIES
We're all guinea
pigs as scientists begin to examine how technology is transforming
our bodies and minds
NUKES
ON THE HIGHWAY
Poisonous waste
rolls across America as profits are placed before safety
RESCUE
411
On the trail of
trouble with a search-and-rescue team
WAR
OF THE WOMBS
As Campaign 2000
kicks into high gear, abortion foes keep shifting the debate to
their terms and winning new legal and rhetorical battles
WIRED
MONEY
Checking into Web
banking with considerable interest
UNDERCOVER
CHOICES
Faced with a restrictive
new anti-prostitution ordinance, a high-priced escort considers
her options
GROW
JOBS
Why penis enlargement
is shaping up to be the next big thing
TORN
ASUNDER
The battle over
same-sex marriages keeps charging down the aisle
SWINGING
IN THE SUBURBS
Today's suburban
swingers tend to be close-knit, coupled and conservative
THE
WAR ON BOYS
Author Christina
Hoff Sommers explores how schools treat normal, healthy boys as
predators
CIRCLING
SUNDANCE
On the eve of a
buzz-worthy film festival, a critic readies for several days in
the dark
SLAMMING
THE SPAM
An inbox full of
tips for dealing with email scams
BURLY
MAN MEETS GIRLY MAN
The gym is one
of the few remaining places where we actually connect with one another
FIGHTING
THE POWERS
Nonviolent resistance
techniques imported by Martin Luther King Jr. are still important
activist tools
DUMPSTER
DIVA
A junkyard Martha
Stewart explains how to create treasures from trash
TRAVEL
PACKAGE
See the world cheap
by flying as a courier
PORN,
AGAIN
Meet the drones
who type in descriptions of all that Internet porn
ON
THE BOARDS
An adrenaline-driven
ride through a theatrical audition
WRITINGS
ON THE WALL
Does bathroom graffiti
say something about who we are?
VOICE
LESSONS
What does the sale
of the Village Voice and its chain of weeklies indicate about the
future of the alt.press?
DRESSING
FOR SUCCESS
Tommy Hilfiger
discusses his designs for the future
HARDCORE
SECTS
Which cult is right
for you?
WHO
CAN FORGET THE NINETIES?
Before it fades
into obscurity, a look back at the decade's greatest hits and misses
WHAT'S
WORTH SAVING?
An A-to-Z guide
to 20th-century artifacts we should carry into the new millennium
TINY
BUBBLY
Your last-minute
guide to scoring good champagne for Y2K festivities
ALT.PRESS
BESTS
Utne Reader announces
its 1999 Alternative Press Award winners
Y2K
FOR DUMMIES
Last-minute tips
to prepare for when the lights go out
CREATIVE
HEALING
Art therapy provides
healthy expression for troubled kids and adults
SANTA
RULES
Charting the behavioral
requirements of department-store Kris Kringles
THE
AGE OF SCHLEP
Say farewell to
the shackles of Martha Stewart: The slovenly life is your new master
THE
PARTY PEOPLE
Techno rave culture
means long weekends followed by very short weeks
KICKING
THE TIRE
Give your body
a winter tuneup
HOLLYWOOD
SQUARE
A lowly production
assistant reports from the filmmaking trenches
GOOD
FOR THE SOUL
A reporter sets
up a chair in a public square, and discovers that some people will
confess just about anything.
I'LL
SHOW YOU MINE
Meet the growing
number of netizens opening webcam windows into their world
THE
BLACKER THE BERRY
African-American
women work to survive depression
THE
GRIZ FILES
Is a Montana wilderness
area hiding a population of endangered bears?
SKIN
DEEP
True confessions
of a beauty-pageant judge
BRAIN
OVERPOWERED
Learn the deadly
secrets of mind control
MODEL
SEARCHED
Behind the scenes
at a fashion cattle call where the "winners" pay out $900 a head
BLOOD
MONEY
Can he survive
a week in the city on plasma-donation money and free happy-hour
buffets alone?
CONSERVATIVE
COOL
Young right-wingers
drop some old stereotypes, but do they really bring anything new
to the mix?
FINISHING
SCHOOL
When you absolutely,
positively have to kill someone, it's time to attend the Lethal
Force Institute
ACTIVIST
SUPER BOWL
Bigwigs from 100-plus
nations face an offensive line of protesters as the World Trade
Organization's annual summit kicks off
HOLIDAY
DIY
Why not make your
own gifts this year?
TEQUILA'S
SUNRISE
Shedding its image
as strictly a party beverage, tequila enjoys a renaissance
DR.
SEUSS & UNCLE SAM
The good doctor
urged his country to face tough moral issues long before he captivated
millions of young readers
STRINGED
VICTORY
Instrument maker
Scott Cao creates pitch-perfect replicas of history's great violins
SPIRITS
IN THE SKY
Is there an alternative
religion out there for you?
FREEING
HISTORY
Laura Aldrich revives
the story of a New Jersey village that changed African-American
history
CHIEF
CONCERNS
Can Teamsters President
James P. Hoffa recapture the union's glory days for its members?
NITRO
INTRO
A beginner's guide
to the World Wrestling Federation
CUBA
LIBRE
A reporter breaks
away from an official U.S. delegation to file an off-the-trail report
from Havana--and interviews Fidel Castro to boot
CONVERSION
QUEST
American Baptists
begin a crusade of prayer to convert the world's Hindus
THE
MEN WHO FELL TO EARTH
Today's men have
been cut loose from the work that once defined them, say author
Susan Faludi and the creators of "American Beauty" and "Fight Club"
CATCHING
AIR
On track with a
top rider on the growing BMX bike dirt-jumping circuit
TRADESWOMEN
Why do so few young
women become mechanics, plumbers and electricians? It could be because
of prejudice, stereotyping and lack of support.
GETTING
SNIPPY
Navigating a relationship
with a stylist can be as hard as trying to talk to a lover
FETISH
INVASION
In a world of whips,
chains and men in diapers, the adage "different strokes for different
folks" was never more applicable
FIXING
THE FIT
Bra sales burgeon,
but few women buy the correct size
SKIN
GAME
Why are strip clubs
so popular? One woman uncovers some answers.
THE
MONSTER INSIDE ME
A TV newsman recalls
his tour of undead duty as horror-show host Baron Daemon
SPEED
JUNKIES
How our lives are
spinning out of control in the fast lane
MORTIFIED
A mortician for
a night ponders life as he faces death
RUBBER
ROOM
Birth-control thrills
at the History of Contraception Museum
LARRY
DOES D.C.
Hustler publisher
Larry Flynt offers flashes of insight about his foray into political
muckraking
GOING
GENTLE
Help save the earth--and
your pocketbook--with an environmentally friendly funeral
EPIC
DISAPPOINTMENT?
"Friends" creator
David Crane pals up to Broadway, but critics pan "Epic Proportions"
FEELING
THE BEAT
If you can't stay
off the dance floor, blame it on DNA
THE
PAIN REMAINS
Even when you survive
an accident involving a drunken driver, the daily reminders can
be unbearable
COLD
TRAIL
Four months ago,
Steven Reed said he was going for a hike near Oregon's Mount Hood.
He hasn't been seen since, and that may be just what he wanted.
ALIVE
& KICKING IT
Six indie-label
vets assess the nineties boom and their future prospects
NORTHERN
LOOP
A scenic and cultural
side trip opens up the wonders of the Canadian Rockies
TRAVELS
ON A DIRTY PLANET
A wandering writer
surveying our chances for survival finds a puzzle of despair and
hope
GET
PUCKED
While baseball
grinds to a conclusion, the National Hockey League hits the ice
skating
ON
TRACK
A one-trick pony
spends a day at the races
MONDO
VEGAS
Visiting the capital
of the new Southwest--and possibly of the new century as well
DADDY'S
SAVAGE LOVE
Eighteen months
after adopting a son, sex columnist Dan Savage discusses gay fatherhood,
gutter-punk birth moms and covering presidential politics
GHOST
OF A CHANCE
Tracking down the
truth about spooks in a hotel full of ghost hunters
FOREIGN
FAMILY
After thousands
of dollars, four years and countless tears, a woman travels to Russia
in hopes of finally meeting her adopted daughter
ROCK
'N' ROLL INTERNS
Trade clothes with
Bowie and give Flava Flav the time between trips to the copy machine
THIRD
WATCH
Night workers find
interesting connections in the dark
YOU'VE
GOT SPAM
From Internet debris
to ads in public restrooms, is no space sacred?
WOMEN
MAKING THE ZINE
From hipMama and
girl-mom to Bust and Rockrgrl, female micropublishers converge on
Portland's Hot House 1999 zine convention
PLAGIARISM
SUPERHIGHWAY
Kenny Sahl cheerfully
admits most papers offered through his SchoolSucks.com site are
"garbage"
NEW
GAME?
Emerging from financial
disaster, Atari founder and Pong inventor Nolan Bushnell heads back
to the garage to launch Uwink.com
HE
SAID/SHE SAID
After a bitter
divorce, Cindie Franklin disappeared with her six children. But
ex-husband David denies charges of abuse and fights to get his kids
back.
EDGEWALKERS
Heirs to many cultures,
multihued youth create an identity all their own
MAN
OF LETTERS
One family's correspondence
paints a haunting portrait of the Holocaust
007
2000
Has the post-Cold
War/Austin Powers era put James Bond out of business?
MIX
MASTER
Through 37 years,
19 managers and hundreds of fellow bartenders, Bert Cabalza keeps
making the rounds at Binion's Horseshoe casino
BIRTH
RIGHT
Kenny Tucker's
search for his biological family meant facing down closed-adoption
laws
JAMMING
FOR CHRIST
A city's young
Christian soldiers help hard-rockin' Luis Palau's march to the top
of the evangelical world
EARNING
CREDIT
Students make easy
targets for credit-card companies, but don't let them crush you
NAKED
TRUTHS
Hanging out (literally)
at NudeFest '99
GRAPPLING
HOOK
Female wrestlers
have come a long way since fifties catfight erotica
THEY'VE
GOTTA HAVE IT
A film's struggle
for release begs the question: Why is it OK for young women to be
sex objects, but threatening when they seek to enjoy sex?
MCMANSION MANIA
We're supersizing
in the suburbs, and we can't seem to stop
INTERVIEW
WITH THE UMPIRE
Widely considered
one of baseball's worst officials, Eric Gregg opens up about the
game, the fans and the prospect of losing his job September 2
BURNING
PLAN
It takes a village
of crazed engineers, hammered carpenters and rock-steady organizers
to construct the site for Burning Man
FRESH
SQUEEZE
Is success killing
the organic farming movement?
A
DEATH FORETOLD
Maranda Bush didn't
have to die, but Child Protective Services ignored what her grandparents
had to say
TIME
IN A BOTTLE
Time capsules preserve
a millennial craze for posterity
PEP
TALK
A handful of tips
on choosing the right vitamins for you
DROWNING
SORROWS
Tales of death
and detox in Indian Country
NEW
FACES OF BLACK THEATER
Ten years after
its first staging, The National Black Theatre Festival picks up
serious steam
OUTSIDE
IN
Why protest the
loss of forest and stream when the natural wonders we need are at
the mall?
FOOD
FLIGHT
Optional airline
meals can be something special in the air
AMERICAN
TAIL
How can folk legend
Brer Rabbit escape from the tar patch of history?
VROOM
AT THE TOP
Female NASCAR drivers
muscle onto the fast track
LONG
KICK
The women's soccer
frenzy didn't just spring out of nowhere--the footwork for success
began decades back
DETAILS
OF THE DEVIL
Forget that fictional
Blair Witch--it's the legendary Jersey Devil you should really worry
about
WITCH
WAY FROM HERE?
"Blair Witch" points
a hairy finger toward horror's future
MARS
CZARS
NASA engineers
team up with a group called the Mars Society to lay the groundwork
for Red Planet colonization
THE
PHARMA SUTRA
Dosage dictates
desire for Prozac Nation
WRESTLING
WITH CHANGE
No matter how wacky
the Jesse Ventura-led Reform Party convention may seem, delegates
end up making a lot of sense
DIG
THOSE DEALS
How to be the life
of an estate sale
HARVESTING
HEMINGWAY
Patrick Hemingway
discusses life with Papa, his father's last words and his hand in
the year's most controversial book, "True at First Light"
RADIO
HEADS
Ira Glass and the
twentysomething staff of public radio's "This American Life" make
broadcast news
WHERE
THE WILD THINGS ARE
Inside a sanctuary
for exotic beasts of all stripes
TWO
FOR TEXAS
Forget Nolan Ryan--Negro
League pitching sensation Joe Williams is finally entering the Baseball
Hall of Fame
EMPTY
CALORIES
Are those supermarket
"health" foods good for you, or too good to be true?
ASPHALT JUNGLE
The city is ecology's
final frontier
THE
DOCTOR IS OUT
A ragtag medical
team trades hometown comforts for Third World hell
STREET-WALKIN'
CHEATER
The hard-knock
life of a police prostitute-decoy
DANCE
TO THE MUSIC
Scenesters fight
to get electronic grooves onto the commercial airwaves
HAILEY'S
COMET
How Bruce Willis
turned a small Idaho town into Planet Haileywood and then just walked
away
JOB DREAMING
Pursuing your
passions really can pay the bills
KICKING
CRANK
A 42-year-old
methamphetamine slammer struggles down the road to recovery
IT'S
GOTTA BE THE SHOES
You think the
Women's World Cup competition between the U.S. and China is fierce?
It's an even tougher battleground for Nike and Adidas.
ROOMMATE
ROULETTE
Choosing a new
housemate--or dealing with a bad one--doesn't have to ruin your
life
MAT
RATS
Great local pro-wrestling
is more than just a battle of words and wits. There are also the
costumes.
COPS
GO TO WAR
With police brutality
on the rise, SWAT tactics raise hard questions
A
DAY AT THE RACES
Average Al Unsers
with the need for speed can get behind the wheel of a CART racer
THE
DEBUTANTES' BALL
Meet
the women of the 1999 World Cup--brawny and assertive, with their
own brand of style and grace
OUT
& DEVOUT
Gay Christians
flock to the few churches where their sexual orientation is no sin
INTO
THE VORTEX
Dennis Andres
cashed in his reality check to become a spiritual tour guide
GOOD
HUMOR
Making the rounds
with an ex-hippie ice cream man
GUARDING
THE TOOTH
Decades later,
the debate over water fluoridation rages on in some states
LAUGH
TREK
Improvising down
the road with The Second City National Touring Company
PLAYING
TWISTER
Storm chasers
illuminate the dark side of nature
HOLDSCLAW
HYPE
Women's pro basketball
star Chamique Holdsclaw is the nation's other big hoops story--or
so the WNBA would have you believe
LONE
RANGERS
Slate and Salon
pull in readers and bleed money while major competitors fail to
emerge
AMERIKKKA'S
MOST HATED
The author of
"Am I Black Enough for You?" explores the power of Latrell Sprewell's
controversial new commercial
(RE)MAKING
THE PERFECT MAN
A writer with
an "average, frumpy body" investigates plastic-surgery options for
guys
SUMMER
A to Z
Can the wonders
of summer be broken down into a simple, alphabetically restricted
list? Sure, why not?
PINCH
HITTER
Ralph Ellison's
posthumous novel, "Juneteenth," hits the stands with the considerable
help of a professor named John F. Callahan
A
PLAN IN FULL
Tom
Wolfe heads back to campus for his next project
RETHINKING
MOTHERHOOD
They might never
say never, but more women are staying childless by choice
SAY
IT AIN'T SO, JOE
A study suggests
muscle-bound GI Joe may harm boys' self-esteem
GAME
BOYS
The world's best
classic video-gamers relive their glory days
STARBUCKED
Finding fame
as the world's most disgruntled Starbucks customer
GARDEN
GRILLING
You don't need
meat to throw a perfect summer barbecue
KINKY
TRICKS
Follow niche
prostitute Miss Scarlet as she fulfills fetishes for fun and profit
PHAT
GIRLS
A new women's
movement dines out on the joys of living extra large
ARMED
FORCING
A veterans group
combats glamorous military recruitment ads
A
DOLL LOOKS AT 40
Barbie battles
her midlife crisis with a new feminist attitude
DOUBLE
TROUBLE
Mild-mannered
account exec by day, badass pro wrestler by night--welcome to the
world of Stephen "Loverboy Steve" Proctor
LAST
DANCE
A 24-year-old
reporter goes undercover to high-school prom
PHANTOMS
OF THE SIDEWALK
A new generation
follows The Force
HE
KNOWS JACK
Master distiller
Jimmy Bedford takes a shot at whiskey greatness
A
NIGHT AT THE RACES
These gamblers
go greyhound
CROSSING
THE LINE
A Mexican teen's
harrowing passage to America
EIGHT
SECONDS
A young rodeo
star chutes and scores on the bull-riding circuit
THE
CRUISE
A teenage Saturday
night up and down Main Street America
BALLOON
PAYMENTS
Why are women
still buying breast implants?
BYE,
ROLLERS
Redd Foxx, Col.
Tom Parker and Sonny Liston headline Vegas for eternity--from the
city's well-hidden cemeteries
CHRONIC
STRESSING
Will a doctor's
unorthodox treatment for chronic fatigue syndrome wake up the medical
establishment?
MOTHER
ROAD
Finding kicks
on Route 66
SOLD!
Hear the gavel
fall at a live auction
RINGSIDE
ATTRACTION
Boxer Hannah
"the Vegas" Fox bobs and weaves her way to the top
COMPLICITY
Dialogue boxes
that really make you think
GREAT
PLATES
Top chefs dish
tips on creating culinary magic
THE
GREEN MUSE
Hearts grow fonder
for absinthe
TAGGED
OUT
Waging war against
the scrawl of the wild
SPINOUT
A music writer
discovers a DJ's job is tougher than he thought
BALANCING
ACTIVISTS
Sustainable development
takes center stage at a national conference, but can attendees even
define the issue?
MOTEL
HELL
Spend a week
in these by-the-hour rooms
SHAFTED
How big business
exploits the mining town where the Mexican Revolution was born
MAKING
TRACKS
Legendary photographer
O. Winston Link describes shooting the last steam-powered railway
in America
DISHONORABLE
DISCHARGES
How honest workers
lose their jobs to prison inmates
LIP
UNLOCKING
Why is kissing
so addictive?
THE
SECOND COMING OF JIMMY SWAGGART
The TV preacher
has mellowed since his prostitute encounters almost knocked him
from the pulpit
DOGGY
DAYCARE
Where busy humans
bring pampered pooches to play
GROUND
ZERO
An unfiltered,
firsthand account of the Yugoslavian bombing
WORLD
OF HURT
A college kid
named Gravedigger battles his way up from the pro-wrestling minors
STAINED-GLASS
CEILING
More women break
into the pulpit
FACING
THE MONSTER
While other students
were on spring break, Jason Moss visited a serial killer--and almost
got burned
PREGNANT
SILENCE
Pro-choicers
won't admit some women need grief counseling after abortion, but
opponents are happy to step in
ARMED
RESOURCES
As bombs fall
on Kosovo, the National Guard's weekend warriors swing into action
ANARCHIST'S
LEGACY
Recalling the
Monkey Wrench Gang
DIAL
F FOR FRAUD
The view from
inside a phone-scam operation
A
DOLL'S LIFE
Jenny Baker struggles
to build a better Barbie
GOTTA
DANCE
Reaching a stage of modern maturity
SPARE
SOME PLASTIC?
Helping the
homeless with ATM cards
AROUND
THE CORONER
Visit a county
morgue in the dead of night
THE
LOVE BOMBERS
The International
Churches of Christ have made inroads on some campuses, but they've
been banned on others. Is the ICC a cult?
GRAND
THEFT AUTO
Possession is
nine-tenths of the law for this repo man
CAN
THE SMOKIES BE SAVED?
America's most
popular national park struggles for survival
DEAD
RIGHT
Killers have
an all-knowing enemy in forensic scientist Max Courtney
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