Carving Up Gates
What the proposed split of Microsoft means for the company, its rivals, the market--and you

The Case For The Breakup

The Raid In Replay
As Elian settles in with Dad, both sides argue over four key questions

Prison Cells, Tourists And One-Liners (Letter From Vietnam)
McCain's return to Vietnam is complete with solemnity and his usual blunt talk

The Food-Stamp G.I.?
Politicians love to rail about our poor, hungry soldiers. The truth, as usual, is more complicated

There They Go Again

When the Disease Is Also a Cure


Shield Of Dreams
G.O.P. hawks and the Pentagon want to build a missile-defense system. But will it trigger a new cold war?

An Invasion of Paradise
How a mass abduction at an exclusive resort played into jungle warfare across a pirate-filled sea

Parched Earth
Politics and drought plunge the vast Horn of Africa into catastrophe, threatening mass famine once again


Reviving Artificial Hearts (Medicine)
Clark's travail gave the technology a bad name--but researchers are ready to try again

Bubble-Free (Medicine)
French doctors score a gene-therapy triumph

What Mother Nature Teaches Us About Motherhood (Science)

Barefoot, Pregnant and Ready to Fight (Science)

Riesling's Revenge (Living)
The misunderstood wine finally gets a place at the table

The Ghost of Marion Barry (Society)
Washington's ongoing woes haunt the new mayor


Video Playground (Personal Time/Your Family)
New studies link violent video games to violent behavior. So

In Brief (Personal Time/Your Family)

Giuliani's Choices (Personal Time/Your Health)
New York City's mayor has several options for his prostate cancer. The odds for a cure are good

Your Health (Personal Time/Your Health)

A Legal Beating (Personal Time/Your Money)
Microsoft is a tobacco stock--not. So use its courtroom woes to pick up shares cheap

In Brief (Personal Time/Your Money)

PCs? Forget 'Em! (Personal Time/Your Technology)
Handheld computers are the hottest thing going these days. So which one should you buy?

In Brief (Personal Time/Your Technology)

The Empire Strikes Back (The Arts/Cinema)
Russell Crowe and Ridley Scott breathe vibrant new life into the Roman-history film

Up At The Villa (The Arts/Short Takes/Cinema)
Directed by Philip Haas

Where The Heart Is (The Arts/Short Takes/Cinema)
Directed by Matt Williams

Songs Of Ned Rorem (The Arts/Short Takes/Music)
Susan Graham

Geppetto (The Arts/Short Takes/Television)
ABC, May 7

The Real Thing (The Arts/Short Takes/Theater)
By Tom Stoppard

Blue Collar No More (Fashion)
They're versatile, stylish and flying off the racks. The lowly T shirt enjoys a high-fashion moment

The Unremovable Stain (The Arts/Authors)
Philip Roth's new book offers a bleak look beneath the surface of a self-satisfied nation

Of Roots and Family Trees (The Arts/Books)
A young first novelist writes a "big book" about the rules we live by

Study in Living Colors (The Arts/Books)
In the engaging Half a Heart, Rosellen Brown reunites a mother with the daughter she gave up

Of Mad Max and Madder Maximus (The Arts/Cinema)
The new machismo has an accent

Portrait of the Young Diva (The Arts/Music)
Mya was a star before she was an adult. On her latest album, she's looking to take more control

Chatting with the Enemy (The Arts/Online)
Katherine Tarbox logged on to America Online looking for a friend. Instead, she met a pedophile

Voices from Laramie (The Arts/Theater)
A troupe of actors became reporters to create a unique play about the killing of Matthew Shepard

Tiny Epics (The Arts/Video Games)
Shogun: Total War puts Kurosawa on your PC


Latin America Logs On (Time Select/Global Business)
In just a couple of years, the sprawling region has become the Internet world's next big thing

Creature Comforts (Time Select/Global Business)
For business travelers who appreciate the fine things, a growing list of understated bastions of elegance define downtown luxury

Germany's Glass Ceiling (Time Select/Global Business)
Women managers are still rare in corporate Germany, but they are chipping away at the prevailing culture of old-boy preferment

Get Rich Quick! (Time Select/Global Business)
Europe's executives are finally following the lead of their U.S. counterparts and making a bundle on stock-option bonuses

Shaking up the Beeb (Time Select/Global Business)
A new director-general at the venerable British Broadcasting Corp. vows to slash bureaucracy and foster creativity

The Tale Of Two Cities (Time Select/Global Business)
Beijing and Shanghai are on a cultural spending spree to decide which metropolis will be the cultural capital of the new China

To Work We Go (Time Select/Global Business)
New people--immigrants, mothers, the old and the young--are entering the labor force and keeping the U.S. economy humming

Pocketbook Issues (Time Select/Politics and Small Business)
The 2000 election brings some of small business's biggest issues to the forefront--from affordable health care to dotcom taxes