For The Record
61% Percentage of people polled by Gallup in six Muslim countries who say Arabs were not responsible for the Sept. 11 attacks on the U.S.

18% Percentage of those who say Arabs were responsible; the rest say they don't know

430,000 Estimated number of people in Brazil found to have dengue fever, caused by mosquitoes

1 in 10 Number of people in the Brazilian work force who have contracted the disease during the current outbreak

9 to 1 Ratio worldwide of workers between ages 15 and 64 to retirees over 65 in 2000

4 to 1 Projected ratio in 2050

$2.1 million Amount paid by the Houston Astros to buy back the naming rights to the former Enron Field

7 Number of companies that have inquired about naming rights

$62,679 Cost for six executives of Barclays, Britain's largest bank, of a dinner at London's Petrus restaurant

5 Number of those attending the dinner who were fired as a result

Sources: Gallup, BBC, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, AP

Pursuing Pearl's Killers
Still reeling from the gruesome murder of Daniel Pearl, Pakistan's leaders found themselves further embarrassed last week by revelations that the Wall Street Journal reporter's abduction might have been prevented. It turns out the U.S. requested the detention of the prime suspect, Ahmad Omar Saeed Sheikh, twice between Sept. 11 and the day Pearl was kidnapped, in each case to no avail. So when President Bush and his spokesman, Ari Fleischer, suggested last Monday that the U.S. wanted Saeed, they touched a handful of raw nerves in Pakistan. By midweek, Fleischer was toning down his rhetoric and indicating that some sort of understanding would be reached.

Saeed's immediate extradition seems unlikely. For starters, the crime took place in Pakistan. Moreover, under Pakistani law it's illegal to extradite a suspect once court proceedings have begun. But should some legal loophole make that possible, Saeed would still have the right to appeal the extradition--keeping the case stuck in Pakistan's courts for a while.

This works out rather well for the national leaders involved. President Pervez Musharraf, who has cracked down on Islamist militancy under U.S. pressure, is reluctant to further annoy Pakistan's well-armed radicals. Already, police and several investigators have been threatened. An attack on a police bus carrying 20 militants left one dead, and gunmen believed to be Sunni Muslims slaughtered 11 Shi'a worshippers at a mosque in Rawalpindi. The U.S., for its part, has ample reason not to rush the extradition of Pearl's murderers. Some in the Administration are worried that forcing the issue would be counterproductive, exacerbating anti-Americanism and offending nationalist sensibilities by suggesting Pakistan's legal system isn't up to the task. The resulting backlash, they fear, would cripple efforts to hunt down al-Qaeda operatives in the region. Admits a senior U.S. official: "As horrendous as [Pearl's murder] is, we have to think long term." BY UNMESH KHER Reported by Hannah Bloch/Islamabad and Elaine Shannon/Washington

New Games For A Retro Mood
Despite the continuing appeal of video and computer games, a growing number of consumers are returning to a low-tech, nostalgic pleasure: board games. From 1999 to 2000, sales jumped 23%, as such games as Monopoly, Clue and Cranium found a new audience in adults and frenzied families eager for a Nintendo-free way to socialize. Toy giant Hasbro has been running an ad campaign that plays on just this theme, urging loved ones to gather weekly for "family game nights."

The popularity of board games has spanned generations, and includes familiar classics and hot newcomers. The best-selling 67-year-old Monopoly can now be played in 34 editions, including I Love Lucy and Spiderman (featuring such properties as Green Goblin, a notorious Spidey foe). A Scooby-Doo edition of Clue was released last month. "Some of the resurgence is post-9/11 and some is part of an overall retro trend," says Maria Weiskott, editor of Playthings magazine. "But particularly during a soft economy, it's important to have something fun and affordable that families can do together. People are remembering how much fun the old games are." But they're also finding fun in new ones, like the best-selling Cranium. Launched in 1998, it asks players to act out, draw or sculpt phrases; more than a million copies have been sold. And the tiny, Toronto-based Faby Games saw its Wordthief (a word game played with cards) sell out when it was launched at Barnes & Noble in 2000 and become one of the chain's Top 10 sellers this year. Next up from Faby is National Trash!, a game in which players use sensationalistic words to create tabloid headlines to go with wacky photos. So when it's revealed that Professor Plum did it with the revolver in the study, a new generation of tabloid writers will be ready. BY HARRIET BAROVICK

19 Years Ago in TIME
War, recession, fighting with HMOs--these are worrisome times, to be sure. But Americans have felt STRESSED before, as TIME noted in a 1983 cover story that focused on the ways Americans were finding to relax.

In the past 30 years, doctors and health officials have come to realize how heavy a toll stress is taking on the nation's well-being. According to the American Academy of Family Physicians, two-thirds of office visits to family doctors are prompted by stress-related symptoms. At the same time, leaders of industry have become alarmed by the huge cost of such symptoms in absenteeism, company medical expenses and lost productivity...It is a sorry sign of the times that the three best-selling drugs in the country are an ulcer medication (Tagamet), a hypertension drug (Inderal) and a tranquilizer (Valium)...No one really knows if there is more stress now than in the past, but many experts believe it has become more pervasive. "We live in a world of uncertainties," says Harvard's [Herbert] Benson, "everything from nuclear threat to job insecurity to the near assassination of the President to the lacing of medicines with poisons." Through television, these problems loom up under our very noses and yet, says Psychologist Kenneth Dychtwald of Berkeley, Calif., the proximity only frustrates us: "We can't fight back with those people on TV."

--TIME, June 6, 1983

A New Breed of Army Recruiters
That spit-and-polish soldier in uniform behind the desk at the Army recruiting office may soon be a thing of the past. To save more of its manpower for important duties closer to the battlefield, the Army in May will begin deploying civilians rather than uniformed soldiers in some of its recruiting stations around the country. Responding to congressional direction, the service will pay two Virginia companies $172 million to staff about 65 of its 1,700 recruiting stations over the next five years with civilians (mostly former noncommissioned officers). Some critics wonder whether youngsters thinking about enlisting will be as impressed by a civilian in shirtsleeves as by a soldier in uniform. "There's no doubt that military personnel should get out of running certain things, like housing," says Lawrence Korb, who served as the Pentagon's top personnel official during the Reagan Administration. "But recruiting--where young people want to talk to a real soldier--doesn't seem like a good place to get out of." If the new recruiters manage to boost enlistments, however, look for the program to be expanded. BY MARK THOMPSON

Exposed by the Dry Cleaner
After weeks of crushing uncertainty, the Danielle van Dam case lurched forward last week with the discovery of her corpse, following the arrest of a neighbor, David Westerfield, 50. He has pleaded not guilty to charges of murder, kidnapping and possession of child pornography; the authorities say they have no other suspects. The investigation leading to his arrest involved the usual combination of legwork and luck. A police source told TIME that the San Diego cops had to learn a couple of major details--including the fact that volunteers had found Danielle's body 25 miles east of downtown San Diego--from the media.

But Westerfield had immediately drawn the suspicion of investigators. Julie Mills, who works at his dry cleaner, says that while Westerfield was normally well dressed and smiling, he came in barefoot and long faced one day shortly after Danielle went missing. He asked to have a jacket and linens cleaned--rush service. "[Sometime] after he dropped them off, the police picked them up," says Mills. (Police officials have confirmed that blood was found on one of his jackets.) It was also learned that Westerfield belongs to a gambling club on a Native American reservation less than two miles from the place where searchers found the body.

The mystery continues, meanwhile, over why Brenda and Damon van Dam were unaware that Danielle, 7, was taken from their house. They have said they noticed an open door after 1:30 a.m. but didn't check her room. Kidnapping a child of Danielle's age from her home is an exceedingly uncommon crime. Child homicides have declined in the past decade, and children ages 6 to 11 are the least likely of any age group to be murdered. "This is a particularly rare case," says David Finkelhor, director of the University of New Hampshire's Crimes Against Children Research Center. "This is the kind of crime that brings communities and nations together." BY JOHN CLOUD Reported by Jill Underwood/San Diego

It's Raining Rocks
When the targeteers at U.S. Central Command grew frustrated in their hunt for al-Qaeda fighters hiding in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan, they utilized a new tactic that turned the rugged terrain to their advantage: causing avalanches. With the help of U.S. Geological Survey maps and a Navy reservist who is a geologist in the civilian world, U.S. bombs triggered dozens of rock slides into forested areas where al-Qaeda troops were hiding. Warplanes dropped smart bombs on precise points where the geologist predicted they would act like jackhammers on rocky cliffs. The tactic had the advantage of surprise: enemy forces, relieved to see bombs explode at a distance, faced a rocky tidal wave seconds later. While there are no estimates of the number killed in the avalanches, Centcom considers the strategy a success, and could use it again when facing an enemy in rocky terrain. In addition to the casualties, says Air Force Lieut. Colonel Bradley Jones, "it had a tremendous psychological effect." BY MARK THOMPSON

Like One Of The Guys
The GENDER GAP that once existed in teen alcohol use is closing, according to a study by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. In 1991, 31% of boys and 22% of girls in 10th grade engaged in BINGE DRINKING, defined as having five or more drinks in a row. In 1999, 34% of boys and 31% of girls were binge drinkers. Though an early, eye-popping stat from the study--that underage drinkers consume 25% of all the nation's alcohol--turned out to be overstated (it's actually only half that), the problem is still huge: more than 5 million HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS are binge drinkers.

T. Rex Gets a Makeover
A study of the running ability of Tyrannosaurus Rex, reported last week in the journal Nature, suggests that the king of the prehistoric jungle wasn't quite the speedster we once thought. Researchers found that T. rex (as imagined in an early 20th century painting, left, by Charles Knight) was too massive to sprint like the giant-size cheetah it appears to be in movies. This is just the latest in a series of humbling revisions made over the past decade or so, as new fossils were unearthed and old ones re-examined. But one thing hasn't changed: this 42-ft.-long, 14,000-lb. toothy predator would still have been plenty scary.

--NEW POSTURE The classic images of T. rex showed him standing upright, with tail near the ground for stability. The correct posture is shown in this skeleton from Chicago's Field Museum: the beast balanced its weight over its hips like a seesaw.

--NO GAZELLE A new biomechanical study, validated in living chickens and alligators, shows that T. rex's muscle mass would allow it to run only 25 m.p.h., not the 45 m.p.h. previously estimated. And the mighty hunter, it turns out, may have also been a scavenger.

--THE SMELL OF THE KILL Studies of skulls and braincases indicate that T. rex had a keen sense of smell, a key weapon in tracking prey. The dinosaur's nostrils have been repositioned as well: closer to the end of its snout rather than its eyes.

--FEATHERED FOE Most scientists now believe T. rex and its close relatives, like this coelurosaur, were more closely related to birds than to other dinosaurs. Juveniles may have had feather-like coats (like chicks) that they shed as adults. BY ANDREA DORFMAN AND ROY B. WHITE

The Devil and Andrea Yates
In the trial of Andrea Yates for the murder of her children, it is the job of prosecutors to prove that no matter how deep her psychosis, she knew right from wrong. As the testimony is making clear, in the throes of her illness she lived for months with confused thoughts not only about right and wrong but also about good and evil--because she believed she was the devil.

Through bouts of post-partum psychosis, the images and catchwords of the Bible became ways for Andrea to express her mental darkness. She received no guidance from established religious institutions; she and her husband Rusty chose to home-church their family three times a week. She earmarked pages in her Bible about a mother's obligation to raise her children or face the consequences, and about the death penalty being the only way to get rid of demons inside. She came to believe that she had failed so badly to measure up to her own extreme ideals of motherhood (she thought the kids should say their ABCs by age 2) that, as she later told the jail psychiatrist, "the kids were destined to perish in the fires of hell."

Her fate depends on how the jury parses her knowledge of good and evil. The prosecution has argued that she contemplated the murders for two years and later showed signs of remorse, all proof of moral clarity. But the defense will try to show that her rationalization process was insane. The jail psychiatrist testified that upon her arrest, she said, "I was so stupid. Could I have killed just one to fulfill the prophecy? Could I have offered Mary [her youngest]?" The jury could begin deliberating the case--and the conundrum of Andrea Yates' mind--this week or next. BY TIMOTHY ROCHE