A country up for grabs
Myanmar’s military toppled the civilian government. Now the country’s diverse population is banding together in protest
What George W. Bush should say
The Republican presidential candidate can expose the radical position of his pro-abortion opponent-and begin to move public opinion in t...
Supreme arrogance
"Illogical," "indefensible," "quite simply absurd": Those were some of the words expressed inside the Supreme Court by some of its own members after a thin 5-4 majority voted to expand abortion rights to include virtual infanticide.
Classic Clintonism
'Well, let me define the term raising': Gore rips a page out of his boss's scandal playbook
Is resistance futile?
"Futile-care theory": Critics say new standards for medical care put U.S.
Dot competition
Reining in the cybersquatters and taking Windows beyond desktops in the race for digital convergence
Notebook
Culture
Culture
Video Rentals
1 The Green Mile $17.9 million 1 week in release $17.9 million to date ...
Culture
A virtual red-light district
Not long ago, a person had to seek out pornography on the Internet. Now, not only is seeking it out as easy as typing an obscene word into a search engine; it also comes to you, in the form of "sp...
Dispatches
The Buzz
The Buzz
GENOME PROJECT RAISES HOPES, FEARS Copying the human script Two rival groups of scientists have announced that the race to decode the human genome has ended-in a tie. J. Craig Venter, presid...
The Buzz
Ups & Downs of the Week
CONSUMER CONFIDENCE: Rising interest rates and soaring gasoline prices dropped the Consumer Confidence Index for a loss in June-showing that, psychologically at least, the Federal Reserve Board's ...
The Buzz
No-Comment Zone
America's nuclear secrets are seemingly as safe as the contents of a breakroom microwave. Two 10-year-old floppy disks containing classified information were reported missing at Los Alamos Nationa...
Quotables
Quotables
There was a perception in the country that I was some sort of aloof, remote federal judge who was arrogating a great deal of power to himself. U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, i...