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Edition: U.S.
Vol. 155 No. 21

NATION
Rudy's Mid-Life Crisis
Already battling cancer, New York City's Mayor Giuliani pulls the plug on his marriage. Will his Senate race against Hillary be next?

Imus 'n' Andy (Dividing Line)
The radio host and his sidekicks trade in bigotry

Rudy, This Book's for You (Public Eye)
Carter's chief of staff tells how cancer humbled his soul and his politics

Drug War In The States
The assault on generics

The Nucleus of Disaster
At the core of the wildfire at Los Alamos was a planned burn--and the government was behind it

The Savior of Newark?
A young, upstart councilman is living on the streets

Who Is This Boy's Mother?
In L.A. and Bangkok, a case reminiscent of Elian's

Bush's Diet-Drug Problem (Nation/Campaign 2000)
The Governor's regulators eased up on a risky stimulant after lobbyists put money in his campaign

Making Up Is Hard to Do (Nation/Campaign 2000)
Bush and McCain's public reconciliation is smooth, if scripted. Here's what went on inside the room


SOCIETY & SCIENCE
School for Hackers (Technology)
The Love Bug's Manila birthplace is just one of many Third World virus breeding grounds

Sinking Treasures (Science/Archaeology)

Teddy Roosevelt's Secret (Comment)
In figuring out success, don't scoff at optimism

The Sublime Oxymoron (History)
Celebrating the very American contradictions of Thomas Jefferson

A New DNA Twist from DoubleTwist (Science)
THE HUMAN GENOME

Ancient Exodus (Science)
Two skulls help explain when and why our ancestors left Africa


WORLD
The China Drive
As Washington prepares to vote on trade, GM finds profits in the Middle Kingdom

The Order to Kill Comes Softly

When The Peace Cannot Be Kept
Humanitarian intervention is dead if the U.N. and the West are run out of Sierra Leone

In Washington, a Marriage Of Convenience for China (World/Politics)

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THE ARTS
Leap (The Arts/Short Takes/Books)
By Terry Tempest Williams

The Greatest Hits (The Arts/Short Takes/DVD)
Whitney Houston

Michael Jordan To The Max (The Arts/Short Takes/IMAX)
Directed by James Stern

This Time Around (The Arts/Short Takes/Music)
Hanson

The View At The Top (The Arts/Television)
Three years ago, Barbara Walters created a new kind of daytime show for a new kind of daytime audience. Now the five opinionated women of The View have given morning talk a makeover

The Digital Reckoning (Viewpoint)
Listen up. The music industry is being "kidnapstered," and it's fighting mad

Industrial Revolution (The Arts/Architecture)
Formerly a power station, the Tate's newest gallery now generates another kind of energy

Hilariously Hapless Heroes (The Arts/Books)
George Saunders offers fine satiric tales about crochety relatives, dead-end jobs and lost dreams

A Planetary Disaster (The Arts/Cinema)
John Travolta's Battlefield Earth is a helpless cause

Bound for Extinction (The Arts/Cinema)
The cuddly old Disney formula proves outdated in Dinosaur. Where is Barney when we need him?

Diversity, en Pointe (The Arts/Dance)
Septime Webre crossbreeds the classicism of ballet with the coolness of pop culture

Prince of Pleasantville (The Arts/Music)
He made Britney a Rolling Stone and took Toni to the top. Rodney Jerkins is pop's man of the moment

A Wild and Zany Guy (The Arts/Show Business)
Tom Green gets serious--well, in his own way

Caution: Laughs Ahead (The Arts/Show Business/The Film)

A Tale Told By An Idiot Box (The Arts/Television)
For sweeps month, TV shares the story of its life

Good Luck (The Arts/Theater)
Arthur Miller's first play gets its first U.S. revival


PERSONAL TIME
Family Fighting (Personal Time/Your Family)
What's a parent to do when the occasional noogie turns into a violent case of sibling rivalry?

In Brief (Personal Time/Your Family)

Dangerous Season (Personal Time/Your Health)
Forget those summer tans--they're an invitation to skin cancer. Kids especially need sun protection

Your Health (Personal Time/Your Health)

Get Out of Hock (Personal Time/Your Money)
The market is iffy; the economy might be inflating. It's a good time to pay down some debt

In Brief (Personal Time/Your Money)

PlayStation Redux (Personal Time/Your Technology)
Sony dominated last week's game Expo with its hot new machine. But who needs a new machine?

IN BRIEF AT E3 (Personal Time/Your Technology)


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Secretary of State HILLARY CLINTON, responding to NATO pledging an additional 7,000 troops to the war in Afghanistan. Clinton also acknowledged that "our people are weary of war" and cited President Obama's pledge to begin withdrawing U.S. forces in July 2011