Newsweek back issues from May 1997:
Coming soon on the Thames: A Giant Whoopee Cushion.(milennium festival planned for Greenwich, England)
May 05, 1997; ... AS A TOURIST ATTRACTION, the prime meridian, passing within a few miles of central London, is one of the world's great unexploited natural resources. Rich in historical associations and scientific significance, offering people the unique experience of standing with one foot in ...
Covering a superpower's rise.(Newsweek wins Ed Cunningham Memorial Award for its coverage of China)(Brief Article)
May 05, 1997 ... Covering a Superpower's Rise CHINA HAS NEVER UNDERgone a metamorphosis more profound than the one that is reshaping the country now. Some of its people have suddenly grown enormously rich; millions of others remain desperately poor, increasingly frustrated in their ...
Is this what life's about? I'm pushing myself so hard to get into a 'good' college there's no time to sleep or have fun.(Column)
May 05, 1997; ... I'm pushing myself so hard to get into a 'good' college there's no time to sleep or have fun MY ALARM STARTS TO RING AT 6:30 A.M. IN A FEW minutes I'm awake enough to find the OFF switch. After a few more moments hiding under the blankets, I slide out of bed and into the ...
Taking the short view: Clinton's problem, from the Summit to schools, is that he won''t pick a fight he might lose.(Column)
May 05, 1997; ... Clinton's problem, from the Summit to schools, is that he won't pick a fight he might lose IN "THE ADVENTURES OF TOM Sawyer," Mark Twain writes that "there had been a 'revival' and everybody had 'got religion,' not only the adults but even the boys and girls.' Yet by the next ...
White House confidential: a former top Clintonite on why Hollywood is so obsessed with sex and scandal at the highest levels.(Brief Article)
May 05, 1997; ... A former top Clintonite on why Hollywood is so obsessed with sex and scandal at the highest levels ONE OF THE COOLEST PERKS OF BEing president is that every Thursday the Motion Picture Association sends you a packet of first-run movies to watch over the weekend. But I doubt the ...
A defiant governor goes to war in the desert: in Arizona, the feds take on a blue-blooded pol. (Gov. Fife Symington faces trial for fraud and extortion)
May 05, 1997; ... In Arizona, the Feds take on a blue-blooded pol FIFE SYMINGTON CAN'T stay out in the sun--his skin is sensitive to cancer-causing rays. Strange, since he's the governor of Arizona: it's as if Florida's chief executive were allergic to oranges. But then, Symington isn't really of ...
Liberated. (hostages rescued in Peru after 126-day standoff)
May 05, 1997; ... After 126 days in captivity, commandos move in to rescue..72 hostages held by heavily armed rebels. The operation, masterminded wire the help of the captives, was as brutally efficient as it was dramatic. THE DAY BEGAN, LIKE 125 OTHERS with the sounds of revolutionary defiance ....
Norma and Cherie who? Blair and Major keep their wives in the background. (Labor Party leader Tony Blair and Tory leader John Major)
May 05, 1997; ... Blair and Major keep their wives in the background AS CHERIE BOOTH, SHE EARNED A law degree from the London School of Economics with first-class honors. As Cherie Booth, she ran for Parliament (unsuccessfully) and was voted "Legal Personality of the Year" by her peers. But ...
An invitation to run against the single currency: Chirac's call for new elections has put the central issue of Europe before the voters. (elections in France)
May 05, 1997; ... Chirac's call for new elections has put the central issue' of Europe before the voters. Who benefits? IT IS AN UNUSUAL POLITICIAN WHO, when his supporters control 80 percent of the seats in the national parliament, decides to call fresh elections long before he needs to ....
Murder in a monastery: who killed three of the Dalai Lama's inner circle?
May 05, 1997; ... Who killed three of the Dalai Lama's inner circle? THE MURDER MYSTERY SEEMS TOO earthly for the monastic palace of the God King of Tibet. But one night last February, three members of the Dalai Lama's inner circle were brutally killed in a bedroom just a few hundred yards from ...
The chill over China: in the wake of Donorgate, Clinton is cracking down on 'dual use' exporters.
May 05, 1997; ... In the wake of Donorgate, Clinton is cracking down on 'dual use' exporters IF SOARING EXPORTS WERE THE HOLY grail of Bill Clinton's first-term trade strategy, then Ed McCracken fit nicely into the role of Sir Lancelot. As much as any CEO, McCracken, the chief of Silicon ...
The buck bites back: the U.S. changes course on the dollar.
May 05, 1997; ... The U.S. changes course on the dollar LOOKING FOR A REASON TO WORRY about the economy? Here's a prime candidate: the strong U.S. dollar. When the business expansion falters --and all expansions falter eventually--the product of that powerful greenback, America's soaring trade ...
Buy this stock, eh? Canada's exchanges are the Wild West up north.
May 05, 1997; ... Canada's exchanges are the Wild West up north WHEN INVESTORS FIRST HEARD the story of Bre-X Minerals, most were aghast. For three years the Canadian mining company claimed to own the world's biggest gold deposit, and its soaring stock turned its executives into millionaires. The ...
Actually, chess is easy. (how artificial intelligence systems are being tested in various competitions during the summer of 1997)(Brief Article)
May 05, 1997; ... Actually, Chess Is Easy In the world of artificial intelligence, even really smart machines have trouble performing simple human tasks COMPUTER CHESS programs, including the mighty Deep Blue, do not address all the complex problems involved in developing artificial ...
Can they feel your pain? Someday, machines will have a form of consciousness. But we'll get used to it.(Cover Story)
May 05, 1997; ... Someday, machines will have a form of consciousness. But we'll get used to it. WHEN I WAS AN 8-YEAR-OLD, I READ A story about a boy who built a robot out of yard scraps. The robot in the story could move, talk and think, just like a person. For some reason, I found the idea of ...
In living colors: Tiger Woods is the exception that rules. For his multiracial generation, hip isn't just black and white.
May 05, 1997; ... Tiger Woods is the exception that rules. For his multiracial generation, hip isn't just black and white. CARL WOODS WAS TALKING about race. It was late October in Tulsa, Okla. Ralph Ellison wrote that growing up in this frontier state, boys could be just "boys, members of a ...
Remembering FDR: disability activists win a round in a fight over presidential public image and memorial politics.(Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial)
May 05, 1997; ... Disability activists win a round in a fight over presidential public image and memorial politic AT THE VIETNAM VETERANS MEMorial in Washington, bereaved families and friends often leave mementos--flowers, letters, old war medals--under the names carved on the Wall. At the ...
How old is too old? A 63-year-old first-time mother gives new life to the debate over reproductive technology.
May 05, 1997; ... A 63-year-old first-time mother gives new life to the debate over reproductive technology WHEN A HEALTHY WOMAN talked into Dr. Richard Paulson's Los Angeles infertility olinfour years ago, he saw no reason to reject her as a patient. Her medical records indicated that she was 50 ...
A deadly late-night delivery: a pizza order sets up a disturbing 'thrill kill.'
May 05, 1997; ... A pizza order sets up, a disturbing thrill kill POLICE SAY TOMMY KOSKOVICH AND Jay Vreeland called five pizzerias in rural Sussex County, N.J., before finding one that would deliver two cheese pies. The first four places either didn't deliver or suspected that the order-- for an ...
Magma force.(volcanoes)
May 05, 1997; ... Volcanoes threaten nearly a tenth of the world's population--but not L.A. IT'S A QUESTION ONLY HOLLYWOOD-- which can make up any answer it pleases--would dare ask: why are there no volcanoes in southern California? To the north and south of Los Angeles, the "Ring of Fire" ...
Volcano.
May 05, 1997; ... L.A. Is One Hot City 'Volcano' feeds on an irresistible fantasy: watching some of the world's priciest real estate leveled by lava THE SECRET OF Volcano's success as a betterthan-average disasterama is its nonstop pace. Like the lava that streams down L.A.'s Wilshire ...
A diva does it her way.(Mary J. Blige)
May 05, 1997; ... Once a protegee of Puffy Combs and Suge Knight, Mary J. Blige goes it alone with Share My World' MARY J. BLIGE HAS BEEN TO CHARM school. Back in 1993, she was still overwhelmed by success and reportedly showed up at interviews high, drunk or not at all. Her advisers were bent on ...
Anything Your Little Heart Desires.
May 05, 1997; ... A daughter remembers BARTLEY CRUM LIVED IN EXTRAORdinary times, and as his daughter's memoir makes clear, he was one of the people who made them extraordinary. In Anything Your Little Heart Desires (416 pages. Simon & Schuster. $27.50), Patricia Bosworth traces her father's ...
Steel Pier.(New York, NY)
May 05, 1997; ... Theater is booming and a spate of new musicals are opening. But how good are they? I REALLY HAVE MY HEART IN THIS ONE. It's going to really hurt my feelings flit doesn't work." Don't let the wistful tone of composer John Kander fool you. More than his ...
The Life.(New York, NY)
May 05, 1997; ... Theater is booming and a spate of new musicals are opening. But how good are they? I REALLY HAVE MY HEART IN THIS ONE. It's going to really hurt my feelings flit doesn't work." Don't let the wistful tone of composer John Kander fool you. More than his ...
Titanic.(New York, NY)
May 05, 1997; ... Theater is booming and a spate of new musicals are opening. But how good are they? I REALLY HAVE MY HEART IN THIS ONE. It's going to really hurt my feelings flit doesn't work." Don't let the wistful tone of composer John Kander fool you. More than his ...
Is Broadway rhythm back?(new Broadway musicals)
May 05, 1997; ... Theater is booming and a spate of new musicals are opening. But how good are they? I REALLY HAVE MY HEART IN THIS ONE. It's going to really hurt my feelings flit doesn't work." Don't let the wistful tone of composer John Kander fool you. More than his ...
Thanks, Miss America.(Broadway musical 'Jekyll & Hyde')(Brief Article)
May 05, 1997; ... NOT EVERY MUSICAL inspires its own Pez dispenser, but then there aren't many shows like Jekyll & Hyde. During its $4-city pre-Broadway tour, Hyde used to slash the throat of a prostitute named Lucy and snap her head back, gushing fake blood onto her frilly white smock. To the 200-member ...
A natural mood booster: more and more therapists are recommending an herb called Saint Johnswort to treat mild depression. Does it work?
May 05, 1997; ... More and more therapists are recommending an herb called Saint Jolmswort to treat mild depression. Does it work? KARIN TAYLOR'S black moods were often accompanied by inexplicable bouts of insomnia, crying and lethargy. By last summer she'd sunk so low she didn't care if she ...
A wise blend.(vitamin E and red wine may help Alzheimer and Parkinson's disease patients)(Brief Article)
May 05, 1997 ... VITAMIN E WITH a red-wine chaser may be the smartest cocktail, according to two new reports. Twenty-three U.S. research centers gave early-stage Alzheimer's patients daily doses of either 2,000 III of vitamin E or 10 mg of the Parkinson's-disease treatment selegiline, or both drugs ...
The allergy web.(World Wide Web site for allergy sufferers)(Brief Article)
May 05, 1997 ... IF YOU SNEEZE AS YOU READ this, go to http://www.claritin.com for your region's pollen count. If you wheeze, The American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology offers free nationwide asthma screenings (http://allergy.mcg.edu for dates and locations). Some notable allergens: * ...
Rippling abs can be bad.(low body fat may endanger women's health)(Brief Article)
May 05, 1997 ... SOME EXPERTS WORry that the ab craze threatens women's health. "You can't reveal washboard abs except by losing body fat," says Baltimore exercise physiologist Lew Lyon. Rippling women may have as little as 6 percent fat; the healthy range is 15 to 28 percent, ...
Power bars for pups. (high energy snack food for active dogs)(Brief Article)
May 05, 1997; ... Power Bars for Pups THERE ARE TWO TYPES OF DOGS: THOSE THAT LAZE around sipping crispy-beef-flavored Thirsty Dog pet drink ($1.79 a liter at pet stores) and those that get out and perform. For power dogs there are Power Bones- The Ultimate Nutritional Boost for Active Dogs ...
Match point in Monterey. (actress Brooke Shields and tennis player Andre Agassi get married in California; book about the affair between Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy to be published)(Brief Article)
May 05, 1997 ... IT'S DEFINITELY A '90S relationship; she s five years older and, at sixfeet, an inch taller. They courted by fax until their first date. Apparently the only secret they kept from the public was their impending wedding. On April 19 in Monterey, Calif., with 100 guests looking on, Brooke ...
Ashes away. (cremated remains of 'Star Trek' creator Gene Roddenberry and Timothy Leary are set to orbit the earth)(Brief Article)
May 05, 1997; ... ALMOST A YEA AFTER HIS death, LSD guru Timothy Leary is high again Last week about one quarter Ounce of Leary's ashes, along with those of "Star Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry and 22 others, was lofted into space, to orbit Earth for perhaps a decade before ...
Whoa! Hingis is unseated. (tennis player Martina Hingis suffers a knee injury that requires surgery after fall from a horse)(Brief Article)
May 05, 1997 ... A FEW WEEKS AGO 16-YEAR-old Martina Hingis became the youngest woman tennis player ever to be ranked No. 1 in the world. But last week the Czech-born teen queen fell off a horse for the second time in four months, tore a tendon in her knee and will have to put down her racquet for at least ...
The press didn't do it: our troubled institutions and leaders got into this mess themselves.(Column)
May 05, 1997; ... Our troubled institutions and leaders got into this mess themselves You HEAR THE CHARGE EVERYWHERE THESE DAYS. IT IS uttered as a defense by politicians who get in trouble and as a general sigh of exasperation by others who are just bummed out by all the disillusioning news. The ...
Health care for your pet.(Special Advertising Section: All About Pets)
May 05, 1997; ... Pets aren't just animals anymore. Increasingly, they are considered members of the family. In fact, according to a 1996 survey by the American Animal Hospital Association, 51 percent of pet owners give their pets human names. Many include news about their pets in correspondence-my own ...
Healthy pets: proper nutrition for your dog and cat.(Special Advertising Section: All About Pets)
May 05, 1997; ... One calorie, two calories, three ...Tired of counting those calories? Or how about fat? Are you watching your fat? And you should really monitor cholesterol. Are you cutting your carbs and boosting those protein levels? And don't forget fiber. Does it sound like an ad for a ...
Adoption: choosing the pet that is right for you.(Special Advertising Section: All About Pets)
May 05, 1997; ... Dogs and/or cats currently reside in a majority of American households (57 percent). However, a 1995 Gallup poll discovered that more than 90 percent of those surveyed want a cat or dog. So how do you choose one? There are currently 140 dog breeds and 36 cat breeds to select ...
First aid. (what to do for a pet if it is suffering from a medical emergency)(Special Advertising Section: All About Pets)(Brief Article)
May 05, 1997 ... The following are some common pet first-aid treatments recommended by AAHA. Always call your veterinarian at the first sign of trouble. Bite wounds Approach the pet carefully to avoid getting bitten. Muzzle the animal. Clean the wound with large amounts of water. Wrap ...
Protecting America's dreams: life insurance - for all generations.(several related articles; special advertising section)
May 05, 1997; ... Are you one of 78 million Americans born between 1945 and 19647 If so, you may be part of "the sandwich generation," baby boomers who find themselves simultaneously raising children and caring for aging family members. Forced to be caregivers and financial providers for their ...
Playgrounds of the future: they ain't got swing.
May 12, 1997; ... ON A SUNNY SUNDAY AFternoon, seventh grader Josh Hartley is helping to build a wet-sand dam at Jack Fischer Park in his hometown of Campbell, Calif. A 6-year-old "reinforces" the dam with twigs. Another presses a button that floods a concrete channel with water, to test the structure's ...
Murder close to home: when a brutal, senseless crime strikes our quiet community, we are changed forever.
May 12, 1997; ... When a brutal, senseless crime strikes our quiet community, we are changed forever I LEARN ABOUT THE MURDER BY CHANCE. DRIVING through my tranquil neighborhood, I am confronted by a chilling sight: yellow police tape around a house and scores of men combing the area. At first I ...
Blair's Britain.(UK Prime Minister Tony Blair)
May 12, 1997; ... He won becuase he appeals to a multicultural society at ease with itself. But does the new prime minister have what it takes to lead his country into the future. HALF THE COUNTRY'S GOT A HANGOVER," SAID ONE Briton last Friday, after an election result that turned his country's ...
How Tony Blair won.(new UK prime minister)
May 12, 1997; ... How Tony Blair Won Labour's landslide was not preordained. But when the Tories fell apart, they guaranteed their own humiliation. IT WAS A SATURDAY, MARCH 15, AND Alastair Campbell, Tony Blair's press secretary, knew that he had only a few days of freedom left. At ...
Washington's African move. (international relations)
May 12, 1997; ... With Mobutu's brutal regime drawing to a close, the United States wrests control from France EXCEPT FOR THE FINAL FORMALITY of surrender, defeat or death, by last week, it was all over for Mobutu Sese Seko. The dying dictator of Zaire had clearly reached the end of his 52-year ...
We 'did not kill her.' (parents of slain child JonBenet Ramsey)
May 12, 1997; ... JonBenet's parents break their silence, talking to the cops and taking their case to the country. Behind their surprise move. IT LOOKED LIKE ANY OTHER CHEERLESS government office: drab walls, lightless windows, hard, utilitarian furniture. But the room in Boulder, Colo.'s ...
Secrets of the budget. (balanced budget agreement)
May 12, 1997; ... A conservative argues that the real news about the deal is the subtle squeeze it will put on liberals IN RIGHT-WING WASHINGTON SOME Republicans are fuming about the tentative budget deal President Clinton and Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott--two smooth-talking sons of the ...
Chelsea wings her way west. (Chelsea Clinton decides she will attend Stanford University)(Brief Article)
May 12, 1997; ... She chooses an elite college far from home--Stanford FOR HILLARY CLINTON, IT WAS A tough piece of news. Last week Chelsea, her only child, announced that she would pursue her college degree some 8,000 miles from home. Chelsea, a 12-year-old National Merit Scholarship finalist ...
Shutting down a siege: in Texas, an armed standoff comes to a sudden end.(peaceful end to standoff with member of the Republic of Texas)
May 12, 1997; ... THE CONQUISTADORS had a name for this land--despoblado, or El Paso unpopulated. Much of West Texas remains that way: the mile-high town of Fort Davis is 88 miles from Davis Mts. the nearest Wal-Mart. Last week "the Republic of Texas"--an extremist group that thinks Texas is an independent ...
At war over women: a series of sex scandals raises old doubts about whether a woman's place is in the ranks. But there's not turning back.(Military)(includes statistics females in the armed forces)
May 12, 1997; ... A series of sex scandals raises old doubts about whether a woman's place is in the ranks. But there's no turning back. BY MOST ACCOUNTS, THE 7,000 men and 800 women in the U.S. armed forces stationed in Bosnia are getting along well--perhaps a little too well. Banned from ...
A Kennedy crackup: from Michael's alleged affair with a teen babysitter to Joe's divorce, RFK's kids are in trouble. (children of the late Robert F. Kennedy)(Scandals)
May 12, 1997; ... From Michael's alleged affair with a teen babysitter to Joe's divorce, RFK's kids are in trouble THE KENNEDY MEN HAVE always been drawn to water, women and liquor--often with disastrous results. Now it's Michael Kennedy's turn. For years, the 39-year-old son of Robert F. Kennedy ...
Sending an SOS at ABC: Disney may shuffle more than its network's program schedule to halt a steep ratings slide.(Television)
May 12, 1997; ... LAST WEEK ABC MADE TELEVISION history. But unlike the "Ellen" trimph, this was one the network would rather have kept in the closet. We're talking about the previous Saturday, when ABC managed to break a longstanding record for the leastwatched evening, not including summer reruns, in the ...
Computing's Columbo: columnist Walter Mossberg is a champion of the technology-befuddled everyman.
May 12, 1997; ... Columnist Walter Mossberg is a champion of the technology-befuddled Everyman THE OTHER DAY WALTER MOSSBERG was on his hands and knees on the floor, looking up at his new office computer. The damn thing wasn't converting files from another machine. Typical--and, of course, ...
Down to business. (prospects for nonprofit social service after the Summit for America's Future)(Column)
May 12, 1997; ... The glitzy Summit is over. Now the hard work begins for corporate America and the press. COLIN POWELL HAS HIS WORK CUT OUT for him. The nonprofit army he will now command is so comically disorganized that the day after the Presidents' Summit for America s Future, no one even ...
The color bind. (University of Texas Law School will admit fewer minorities)
May 12, 1997; ... Thanks to a court order, a law school discovers that without an affirmativeaction program its student body will be too white for comfort EVER SINCE A FEDERAL COURT OUTLAWED affirmative action at the University of Texas, Austin, law school last year, promoters of diversity have ...
Chicago's tribune. (columnist Mike Royko)(Obituary)(Brief Article)
May 12, 1997; ... Mike Royko earned his clout as the voice of the little guy MIKE ROYKO, THE CHICAGO LEGend who died last week, once dedicated a collection of his newspaper columns to his "legmen." As Royko handed out the books at his home, he inscribed to Pat Wingert, now of NEWSWEEK: "You were ...
Fountain of annihilation: astronomers find an antimatter geyser in the sky.
May 12, 1997; ... Astronomers find an antimatter geyser in the sky WILLIAM PURCELL'S GOAL WAS modest, if any research on the mysteries of deep space can be called modest. Back in 1974 astronomers had discovered that the center of our Milky Way galaxy teems with antimatter, the stuff of science ...
The myth of quality time.(working parents spend too little time with their children)(Cover Story)
May 12, 1997; ... Kids don't do meetings. You can't raise them in short, scheduled bursts. They need lots of attention, and experts warn that working Pharents may be shortchanging them. FOR THE NEW YORK LAWYER, IT ALL HIT HOME in the grocery store. She had stopped in with her 6-year-old to pick ...
Time bind? What time bind?(John Robinson and Geoffrey Godbey's book 'Time for Life' claims parents have more free time nowadays)
May 12, 1997; ... If you're feeling stressed out and exhausted--get over it. A provocative new book argues that we actually have more free time now than ever. SO YOU THINK YOU HAVE NO TIME for your kids, no time to sleep, read, cook, exercise, socialize--in short, no time to live? Well, wait a ...
Beating the clock. (advice for working parents)(Cover Story)
May 12, 1997; ... Finding solutions to the family time bind takes creativity and guts--here's a start. FAMILY-FRIENDLY EMPLOYERS AND changes in public policy can help ease the household-stress overload, but individual ingenuity is still the critical survival skill for two-career families in the ...
How big is yours? (movie budgets)
May 12, 1997; ... This summer, studios bring out their blockbusters and engage in the most macho round of one-upmanship ever. With $1.5 billion in budgets at stake, everybody's asking ... IT CAME TO HIM IN A dream. Jan De Bont, the director of "Speed" and "Twister," knew he'd found his next ...
The mice roar.(smaller films to be released Summer 1997)
May 12, 1997; ... While the summer blockbusters slug it out, some small gems will find a grown-up audience The Mice Roar THE OSCARS THIS year were read as a David and Goliath morality tale in which the scruffy but noble independents vanquished the lumberhag, overstuffed studio movies ...
Going, going, gone in Hong Kong? Jitters in the primary source for Chinese antiques.
May 12, 1997; ... Jitters in the primary source for Chinese antiques LAST TUESDAY IN HONG KONG AN auction crowd gasped, then broke into boisterous applause when a unique Qing-dynasty (18th-century) bowl, decorated with puce landscapes, fetched a record bid of $2.8 million from Giuseppe Eskenazi ...