Vol. 155 No. 1

WORLD

No Tears For Boris
Prime Minister Putin grabs the reins in Moscow. An inside look at the secret Kremlin plan that put him in charge

Remembering Yeltsin

SOCIETY

Arrested Development (Crime)
Puff Daddy and Jennifer Lopez are picked up by cops. She is cleared. Is he innocent too?

Bad Day's Night (Crime)
An intruder stabs former Beatle George Harrison

NOTEBOOK

Notebook

Readers Speak: Down with Geraldo

The Zips Were Robbed

The Fat of the Land

Milestones (Milestones)

The Army's Futuristic Mutant Snafu Turtles

Eulogy (Eulogy)

Numbers

If Saving Time in a Bottle, Don't Lose the Bottle

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE

Happy New Century!

Who Are You in the New Millennium?
Watching a new age dawn in the company of Easter Island's "living faces"

BUSINESS

Indicators (Indicators)

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

A Livable Treasure-House (Art)
The Phillips Collection mounts a splendid show to commemorate itself and its dedicated founder

GalaxyQuest (Short Takes)
Directed by Dean Parisot

What Would Machiavelli Do? (Short Takes)
By Stanley Bing

Onegin (Short Takes)
Directed by Martha Fiennes

Super Bowl: Super Showcase For Commercials (Short Takes)
Museum of Television & Radio, New York and Los Angeles, through Feb. 13

Vol. 3...Life And Times Of S. Carter Jay-Z (Short Takes)
...And Then There Was X DMX

Waiting In The Wings (Short Takes)
By Noel Coward

YOUR TIME

The Right to Visit (Personal Time / Your Family)
After parents divorce, what legal claim do grandparents have to see their grandkids?

To the Moon (Personal Time / Your Money)
Don't think NASDAQ stocks can repeat 1999's hot performance? You're right--they may be higher!

Holiday Headache (Personal Time / Your Technology)
Was it really too much, asking the Web to help me find a New Year's getaway? Apparently so

Sounds of Silence (Personal Time / Your Health)
More and more hospitals are testing newborns for hearing loss. Here's what you should know

In Brief (Personal Time / Your Family)

Your Health (Personal Time / Your Health)

In Brief (Personal Time / Your Money)

In Brief (Personal Time / Your Technology)

SPECIAL SECTION

A Letter To The Year 2100 ("Hello, 21st Century")

Birth of A Century ("Hello, 21st Century" / 2000 Around the World)

Hey, You In That Bunker, You Can Come Out Now! ("Hello, 21st Century")
After a year of computer-bug fears and a month of terrorism warnings, everything was Y2OK. So the world partied as if it all shared one calendar

PEOPLE

People

LETTERS

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