Vol. 152 No. 23
NATION
A Clinton accuser's foe is expected to face charges
Showdown For Doctor Death
With his latest arrest, Kevorkian pushes the euthanasia debate a grisly step farther
Time For The Ice Floe, Pop
In the name of rationality, Kevorkian makes dying--and killing--too easy
Busted for Possession
Florida tries to snuff out teen smoking by taking kids to court
If You Can't Beat 'Em...
As seen on TV: Starr shows us his fuzzy-wuzzy side
WORLD
Riven by ethnic and religious hatred, Indonesia is slipping out of control
Russia's Gunpoint Politics
In life, Galina Starovoitova was a beacon for democracy. Her murder may prove a turning point
SOCIETY
Stores are wooing customers by making the shopping less forbidding, more friendly--and fun
SPORT
Under coach Dennis Green, the bad-boy and second-chance Minnesota Vikings roll toward a league title
NOTEBOOK
The Pentagon (The Scoop)
Should There Be Static On a $17 Billion Hot Line?
Wanted: A Follow-Up Fillip
Milestones (Milestones)
Terrorism (The Scoop)
Money Changes All Things, Including Loyalty
Technology (The Scoop)
Could There Be a Geek Strike in Gates' Future?
ALSO IN THIS ISSUE
So asked Steve Searles when a town hired him to solve its bear problem
Update (Update)
Contributors (Contributors)
The Silent Friendships of Men
Why Picking These Titans Was Fun
Our third TIME 100 list let us wrestle with how we live and work
BUSINESS
America Online is all set to devour an Internet giant, but how will it feel the next morning?
Jungle Fever On the Web
In today's retail thicket, Amazon is online king
Is Microsoft Off the Hook?
The Rise and Fall of the Original Web Start-Up
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
The legendary Rothschilds established a great fortune. A great biography tells how they did it
The Moral Low Ground (The Arts / Books)
A prizewinning novel about love and betrayal
Forbidden Broadway Cleans Up Its Act (The Arts / Short Takes)
Written and directed by Gerard Alessandrini
A Man for More Seasons (The Arts / History)
In a new book, the martyr is less hallowed but just as poignant
The Children of Rent (The Arts / Theater)
From slacker druggies to flying performance artists, a stodgy old medium tries to think young
A Readable Feast (The Arts / Children's Books)
Trot off, Teletubbies! Forget it, Furbies! This year's books are tons more fun
Piano Bravissimo (The Arts / Music)
Treasures and pleasures abound in a mammoth CD selection of the century's virtuoso pianists
Role Models (The Arts / Books)
Paying tribute to a generation of survivors
Dark Meat (The Arts / Cinema)
Can Babe keep his snout clean in the big bad city?
David Cross (The Arts / Q+A)
The Victors: (The Arts / Short Takes)
Eisenhower And His Boys: The Men Of World War II By Stephen E. Ambrose
Desireless (The Arts / Short Takes)
Eagle Eye Cherry
The Mirror (The Arts / Short Takes)
Directed by Jafar Panahi
Other Voices, Too (A Trip Back To Bountiful) (The Arts / Short Takes)
Nanci Griffith
YOUR TIME
State college-saving plans offer tax advantages to all and can be used at any school in the U.S.
Medicare Woes (Personal Time / Your Health)
Many HMOs are dropping patients over 65. Here's how to make sure you stay well covered
Big-Game Hunting (Personal Time / Your Technology)
Games that simulate hunting are the surprise "killer" application of 1998. Now I know why
Your Health (Personal Time / Your Health)
Your Money (Personal Time / Your Money)
Your Technology (Personal Time / Your Technology)
SPECIAL SECTION
Steve Jobs: Apple's Anti-Gates (Time 100)
Big Wheels Turning (Time 100)
Capitalism not only won, it turned into a marvelous machine of prosperity, led by people who could take an idea and turn it into an industry
Blessed Barons (Time 100)
Rapacious? Sure. But 19th century titans Carnegie, Rockefeller and Morgan set the stage for the empire builders of the 20th
Driving Force (Time 100)
HENRY FORD He produced an affordable car, paid high wages and helped create a middle class. Not bad for an autocrat
Cars That Mattered (Time 100)
From the Tin Lizzie to the Toyota, some autos were more than a ride
Lion Of Hollywood (Time 100)
LOUIS B. MAYER His MGM was a film factory, with stars as assembly-line workers and a hit formula: chaste romance, apple pie and Andy Hardy
America's Banker (Time 100)
A.P. GIANNINI Anyone with a bank account owes a debt to a produce seller who refused to say no
Father Of Broadcasting (Time 100)
DAVID SARNOFF RCA's general foresaw radio as a mass medium built around a network, then did it again for television, rearranging living rooms everywhere
Main Street Broker (Time 100)
CHARLES MERRILL With a fervent belief in the small investor as the foundation of the stock market, "Good Time Charlie" made America the shareholder nation
Stephen Bechtel (Time 100 / Global Builder)
Only a man who thought on the grandest scale could build the world's biggest engineering projects
Monuments Of The Age (Time 100)
Just as Egyptians, Greeks and Romans built grand projects that defined the culture and technology of their times, builders of this century made big statements--usually in concrete
King Of Cool (Time 100)
WILLIS CARRIER So it was the humidity! How a kindly engineer from the Snowbelt helped make the Sunbelt boom
Walt Disney (Time 100 / Ruler Of The Magic Kingdom)
The first multimedia empire was built on animation, but its happy toons masked the founder's darker soul
Criminal Mastermind (Time 100)
LUCKY LUCIANO He downsized, he restructured and he used Standard & Poor's as much as Smith & Wesson to change forever the face of organized crime
Pilot Of The Jet Age (Time 100)
JUAN TRIPPE Though he made flying seem glamorous, Pan Am's founder really helped the rest of us get onboard
Suburban Legend (Time 100)
WILLIAM LEVITT His answer to a postwar housing crisis created a new kind of home life and culture: suburbia
Working-Class Hero (Time 100)
WALTER REUTHER He built the benefits package that workers now take for granted, from health care to pensions. But his agenda was bigger than unionism
Leo Burnett (Time 100 / Sultan Of Sell)
He launched today's visual assault on the senses by proving that images, not words, were the nuclear power of advertising. TV proved him right
Master Of The Mainframe (Time 100)
THOMAS WATSON JR. The man who built IBM into a computer giant was racked by angst at the notion of filling his father's shoes. But worry was a relentless motivator
Burger Meister (Time 100)
RAY KROC McDonald's begat an industry because a 52-year-old mixer salesman understood that we don't dine--we eat and run
Beauty Queen (Time 100)
ESTEE LAUDER She turned cosmetics into a big business by making the experience at the sales counter a personal one
Cracking The Ceiling (Time 100)
Barriers frustrated women this century. Things are changing fast
Madam's Crusade (Time 100)
A black woman's hair-care empire set a style and smashed barriers
High Commissioner (Time 100)
PETE ROZELLE He hooked us on football as show biz and gave Sunday (and Monday) a new kind of religious significance
Guru Of Gadgets (Time 100)
AKIO MORITA He made Sony a trusted name everywhere, because a company without borders is one without limit
Discounting Dynamo (Time 100)
SAM WALTON Wal-Mart brought low prices to small cities, but its creator also changed the way Big Business is run
Software Strongman (Time 100)
BILL GATES He controls something the world's PCs can't live without. But he's neither as good nor bad as the hype
Bosses From Hell (Time 100)
They don't want to be your friend. You don't want to be their enemy
Palace Envy (Time 100)
By living in monstrous houses, tycoons do us a service: it's easier to resent them
Voracious Inc. (Time 100)
Conglomerates roamed the earth during the '60s, eating up smaller firms
Managing To Be Best (Time 100)
The century's smartest bosses have influence beyond their companies
Words To Profit By (Time 100)
Business coverage is now expansive and honest. It wasn't always so
Crazy And In Charge (Time 100)
Brilliant tycoons have had a tendency to get eccentric, or worse
Gene Fool (Time 100)
Society depends on the unattractive to become titans and engineers. Science will threaten the supply
The Business Of America (Time 100)
Mix entrepreneurial energy with abundant capital. Result: the world's most dynamic economy
One Hundred Great Things (Time 100)
In a century when the consumer became king, product innovation reached unprecedented heights