Newsweek back issues from July 1997:
There's no place like home, unless it's the office. (telecommuting)(2000: The Millennium Notebook)(Column)
Jul 07, 1997; ... TELECOMMUTING: it's a word that conjures up more than its fair share of wishful thinking. Wouldn't it be great to get away from the office? These days it's the rare cog who doesn't secretly wish to sneak out from under the boss's watchful glare and escape to that virtual Valhalla--the home ...
Dawn to dusk. (nutrition and health care improvements enhance lives of both infants and the elderly)(2000: The Millennium Notebook)(Brief Article)
Jul 07, 1997 ... Improving nutrition and health care will enhance human life at both ends: ...
Move over, Rover: whether you are in a real emergency or just a bad mood, a cat can be a true lifesaver.(My Turn)(Column)
Jul 07, 1997; ... DOGS TEND TO GET ALL THE CREDIT WHEN IT COMES to heroism, but I prefer to keep a cat around the house in case of emergencies. Wednesday was a sorry-looking thing when I adopted her from the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. She was in a display of pets brought to a fair at ...
Another Loeb award for Quinn. ('Newsweek' contributing editor Jane Bryant Quinn wins the Gerald Loeb Awards for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism)(Brief Article)
Jul 07, 1997 ... JANE BRYANT QUINN, NEWS week contributing editor and author of the CAPITAL GAINS column, has won the Gerald Loeb Lifetime Achievement Award--among the highest honors a business journalist can receive. The Loeb jury praised Quinn as top among "the nation's best known and most trusted" ...
Moscow, we have a problem. (crisis aboard the space station Mir)(Special Report)
Jul 07, 1997; ... In orbit, three men--two Russians, one American--struggle to survive a terrifying mishap. Inside the debacle. BY BILL POWELL AND JERRY ADLER THE THREE MEN FELT THE crash the instant it happened. "When you get hit by 7 1/2 tons, you feel it," said one official at mission ...
Matters of life and death. (US Supreme Court decisions)
Jul 07, 1997; ... For the high court, the states are where the action is THE CURRENT U.S. supreme Court, it seems, has a hard time finding a state's right it doesn't like. Or a congressional act it does. Deciding several momentous cases last week, the court once again implied that the 50 state ...
A Starr-crossed probe?(Kenneth Star's investigation into Bill Clinton's sexual history)
Jul 07, 1997; ... Delving into Clinton's alleged sexual past, the special prosecutor ends up embarrassing himself KEN STARR'S DEPUTIES CALLED IT, simp]y, The Trooper Project. Looking for evidence that Bill Clinton had lied about his Arkansas business deals, frustrated Whitewater investigators ...
Inside the mind of a spy.(KGB spy Earl Pitts)
Jul 07, 1997; ... EARL PITTS, FORMER FUTURE Farmer of America, army captain, FBI agent--and, more recently, spy for the KGB--stood before the judge to receive his sentence, "Mr. Pitts, federal district court Judge T. S. Ellis III said last week, "I have just one question: why did you do it?" Pitts, looking ...
Painting the town red.(Hong Kong's return to Chinese control)
Jul 07, 1997; ... Look beyond the fireworks this week. At the stroke of midnight, Hong Kong Will take on a whole new character. WHO SAYS NOTHING'S GOING TO CHANGE IN Hong Kong when the clock strikes midnight on July 17 Across town, 400 government workers with welding torches, hammers and paint ...
Oh, to be young and Chinese.(handover of Hong Kong to China)
Jul 07, 1997; ... Around the globe, the handover has prompted a burst of national pride. That's fine, as long as Beijing doesn't get carried away. COCO HAS BLEACHED-BLOND:HAIR, BLUE CONTACT lenses, and a silver stud in his nose. Not your typical Chinese patriot, in other words. But the ...
The uses of the past: historians and archeologists dig up evidence to support China's growing nationalism.
Jul 07, 1997; ... Historians and archeologists dig up evidence to support China's growing nationalism EACH SPRING, Archeologist Zheng Guang selects a wheat field near Erlitou and digs toward the origin of Chinese civilization. Since the 1960s he has unearthed an imposing imperial palace, ...
Rupert's team.(Rupert Murdoch)(includes related information on Murdoch's broadcasting of sports)
Jul 07, 1997; ... Rupert Murdoch many hats: billionaire, media baron, TV and cable impresario. Now he's building a global sports empire--making deals at a feverish space and, as is his wont, paying top dollar for the jewels that catch his eye. CHAMPIONS KEEP COOL, CALMLY taking in even the ...
The new dealmakers: the next generation of cigarette execs take over.(new executives in the tobacco industry agree to many concessions)(Brief Article)
Jul 07, 1997; ... THE ANTI-SMOKING ACTIVISTS ASSEMBLED at the Marriott Hotel in Crystal City, Va., last April 3 thought they knew the typical tobacco executive: a middle-aged Southern white male shrouded in smoke and determined to stonewall. But at this first secret meeting Between top cigarette makers and ...
The great divide: Westinghouse ends up on the side of the angels.
Jul 07, 1997; ... ONE OF CBS'S FEW SUCCESSFUL NEW shows these days is "Touched by an Angel," a sitcom featuring divine creatures that come down to earth to rescue mere mortals from vexing problems. Michael Jordan, the guy who runs CBS, tried to apply an angelic touch of his own last fall to the stock price ...
Cradles to coffins: it's an unusual crime, but neonaticide still shocks the public and perplexes researchers.
Jul 07, 1997; ... LINDA CHU PREFERRED HER accommodations at the Century Apartments, a complex owned by the University of Southern California, to a regular dorm room because, she told the student newspaper last year, "the residence halls are much more open-door ... you have to get to know people." But the ...
'Nine months of hiding': how one teenager who denied she was pregnant chose to keep her baby. (the woman gives insight into her initial denial and later decision to keep the baby)(Brief Article)
Jul 07, 1997; ... I JUST COULD NOT FACE the reality. It was July 2, just after my last year in high school, and I was looking at the results of a home pregnancy test. It was one of those plus-minus ones, and I just refused to believe it read positive. Then it started to hit me that I really was pregnant. I ...
The Rocket's red glare. (Toronto Blue Jays' pitcher Roger Clemens)
Jul 07, 1997; ... For Clemens, pitching well is the best revenge THE GLOWER, THE GOATEE AND THE gas on the 97-mile-per-hour fast ball are all the same. Yet Roger Clemens is not easily recognizable on the mound of Toronto's SkyDome, having traded in his red sox for Blue Jays royal blue. Once ...
One fantastic voyage. (the death of famed seaman Jacques Cousteau at age 87)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
Jul 07, 1997; ... Jacques Cousteau, seaman extraordinaire CAN YOU REMEMBER A TIME there were no scuba divers? When our vision of the ocean went no deeper than the keel of a glass-bottom boat? That's the way it was before Jacques-Yves Cousteau. He co-invented the Aqua-Lung. He used it to explore ...
Unmasked: 2 million cases of diabetes. (new guidelines for adults 45 and older to get tested for diabetes once every three years)(Brief Article)
Jul 07, 1997 ... YOU MAY KNOW YOUR weight, your blood pressure, even your cholesterol level. Now there's another number to fret over. To promote the early detection of adult-onset diabetes, health officials last week recommended that everyone 45 and older get a blood-sugar test once every three years--and ...
Odd squad. (motion picture 'Men in Black')(Cover Story)
Jul 07, 1997; ... A neurotic director. A grouchy star. A writer fired five times. How did 'Men in Black' become the summer's coolest breeze? A THOUSAND YEARS AGO EVERYBODY KNEW AS a fact that the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago they knew it was flat. Fifteen minutes ...
His future's so bright...(multi-talented entertainer Will Smith)(Cover Story)
Jul 07, 1997; ... Will Smith is Hollywood's new Untouchable: he acts, raps and always scores. Stardom? He makes it look good. WILL SMITH HAS A DARK, fatal flaw. It's an obsession of sorts, the kind of thing that can drive loved ones crazy and might even, if allowed to nm amok, derail and ...
Roswell - the sequel: now the military has a new explanation.
Jul 07, 1997; ... THE AIR FORCE HAS DECLARED victtory over the aliens: Last week the military released a 231-page report that it hoped would finally bury the mother of all UFO stories: the Roswell Incident. In 1947 a sheep rancher near Roswell, N.M., found a blanket of sticks, tape, rubber, tinfoil and ...
Louis will never go away again: his lost tunes found. A new bio. Still more CDs. An America icon is back.(Louis Armstrong)
Jul 07, 1997; ... His lost tunes found. A new bio. Still more CDs. An American icon is back. LOUIS ARMSTRONG DIED BELIEVING he really was born on July 4,1900. Only in the '80s did his baptismal certificate turn up, proving the actual date was Aug. 4, 1901. But the man who reinvented American ...
The Istanbul express: Americans flock to Turkey seeking exotic sites and bargain prices.
Jul 07, 1997; ... DREW LARNER HAD ALREADY HIT most of the conventional tourist stops in Western Europe. At the age of 33, he had a hankering for something more adventurous this summer. So last month, together with a friend, he set out for Turkey. After three days in Istanbul, Larner was tired: the windows ...
Fruit shakes. (fruit smoothie beverages are expected to become the next big food trend following specialty coffees)(Brief Article)
Jul 07, 1997 ... Lookout, Starbucks! there's a new cool brew. NOBODY IS SURE WHO MADE THE first smoothie, but the food industry is certain there are going to be lots, lots more. "Think of Starbucks," says Kirk Perron, CEO of Jamba Juice, a chain of 53 California smoothie shops. "Look at ...
New homes on the range: career-switching yuppies head for cooking school.(Brief Article)
Jul 07, 1997; ... Career-switching Yuppies head for cooking school IT WAS A SUBLIME MOMENT. SUSAN Hurst, 33, crafted a tiny cup out of white chocolate, filled it with coffee mousse, attached an edible handle, balanced it on a chocolate saucer, garnished it with a miniature raspberry cake--and ...
What about books? (evaluating new high-tech libraries)(Focus on Technology)
Jul 07, 1997; ... Some hi-tech libraries get low grades. NOBODY SAYS NO to Bill Gates, especially when he's giving away money. So the library world was ecstatic last week when the Microsoft magnate announced he was pouring $200 million into public libraries. But it's going to take a lot more ...
Nerve.
Jul 07, 1997; ... TWO WEEKS AGO RUFUS GRISCOM was sweating the Communications Decency Act. He and his partner Genevieve Field were preparing to launch Nerve, a new Web magazine about sex. Some people might be tempted to write off the young couple's publication as just another example of pernicious Net smut ....
Gates + Ellison = $300 million.(philanthropic gifts from Bill Gates and Larry Ellison)(Brief Article)
Jul 07, 1997 ... THE CYBERRICH HAVE BEEN called extravagant for their taste in homes and cars but stingy when it comes to charity. Now two software titans may be changing that. Last week Microsoft's Bill Gates and Oracle's Larry Ellison pledged gifts to philanthropic causes totaling $300 million. Of the ...
Sell it while it's hot. Collect it when it's not.(2000: The Millennium Notebook)
Jul 14, 1997; ... REMEMBER PEZ--THAT oblong, tabletlike candy? Surely you're familiar with the dispensers they're sold in: plastic sleeves crowned with decorative, spring-loaded-tops. Just flip back Mickey Mouse's head, or the top of whichever version you've got, and a tasty, kid-pleasing candy morsel ...
More elbow room.(the decreasing world population may mean that population growth will halt during the 21st century)(2000: The Millennium Notebook)(Brief Article)
Jul 14, 1997 ... More Elbow Room World population growth is slowing. Because people are having fewer children, the ...
I have breast cancer: yes, men as well as women can get - and survive - this terrible disease.(My Turn)(Column)
Jul 14, 1997; ... Yes, men as well as women can get--and survive--this terrible disease FARLY IN AUGUST OF '96, I NOTICED A SMALL LUMP under my left nipple. I wasn't too concerned--I assumed it was a cyst that would go away on its own. About three weeks later, I was driving home from work and ...
Great expectations.(rebutting June 23, 1997 cover story, 'The Young Kennedys: A Dynasty in Decline')(Letter to the Editor)(Brief Article)
Jul 14, 1997; ... YOUR JUNE 23 COVER STORY "THE YOUNG Kennedys: A Dynasty in Decline" (NATIONAL AFFAIRs) has a very unfortunate headline that mischaracterizes an entire family. Few Americans would disagree that the Kennedy family has paid a very high price for its public service. Given this history, few ...
Greetings from Mars: the remarkably clever - and cheap - Pathfinder mission inaugurates a new era in space epxloration.(Special Report)(Cover Story)
Jul 14, 1997; ... For six and half long hours mission controllers had been sitting anxiously with their eyes fixed on a single desktop terminal, sscanning the computer screen for interplanetary e-mail. Suddenly, just about the time that the towns near the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif., ...
Now, the role of a lifetime.(Sen. Fred D. Thompson's probe of 1996 campaign finance)(includes related article on Clinton contributions from Asia)
Jul 14, 1997; ... Fred Thompson has always had something to prove. This week he faces his toughest case: cracking Clinton's Asia Connection. IN 1959, IN LAWRENCEBURG, TENN., Fred Thompson and Sarah Lindsey had a problem. He was 16: a strapping athlete, not much of a student, son of a devout but ...
A rebel in the ranks: a blunt marine roils the Pentagon's hunt for a chief.(general Jack Sheehan)
Jul 14, 1997; ... A blunt marine roils the Pentagon's hunt for a chief JACK SHEEHAN DIDN'T hold his tongue. Last summer the four-star marine general was invited to a closed-door conference at the Aspen Institute, a plush think tank nestled in the Rocky Mountains. For three days academics, ...
South toward home: facing long odds - and painful history - blacks are at last moving back to the old Confederacy.
Jul 14, 1997; ... OFFICIAL SLAVERY HAD BEEN abolished 60 years earlier. But to the sharecropper family into which Bennie Rayford was born in 1926, that distinction barely mattered. No black child in his part of Mississippi could set foot in the schoolhouse until all the cotton was picked. Rayford ...
Clinton's tax problem: unless the president wakes up, the rich will pocket most of the first tax cut since Reagan.(includes a summary of the two proposed tax-cut plans)(Column)
Jul 14, 1997; ... WE'RE TOLD THAT Washington is Dullsville--out of touch with what Americans really care about. But Americans really care about money--who gets how much--and in the next couple of weeks they'll get their first tax cut in 16 years. So put down the lotion and pick up the calculator. The ...
The city on a hill. (Honk Kong)
Jul 14, 1997; ... WHAT HAPPENED LAST WEEK WAS ONCE UNIMAGINABLE. As a young correspondent for NEWSWEEK in the mid-1960s, I had covered Hong Kong's darkest days. China's Cultural Revolution--fomented by revolutionaries waving Mao's Little Red Book--spilled across the border and threatened to end the colony's ...
Rethinking the Korean War.(History)
Jul 14, 1997; ... A moderate challenge to China's party line on the conflict could foreshadow a major foreign-policy shift--and better relations with Washington NORTH KOREAN STRONGMAN Kim Il Sung arrived in Beijing on May 13, 1950, on a top-secret mission he hoped would lead to war. He had just ...
Beijing's new babysitter: the United States has put China on notice. Washington intends to stand guard over Hong Kong.
Jul 14, 1997; ... THERE WERE TWO HANDOVERS in Hong Kong last week. Beijing took power over the British colony--and Washington took over as its chief protector. "You've got to keep watching," British Gov. Chris Patten told Secretary of State Madeleine Albright before tearfully taking his leave. "People ...
Begging for bosses: there may be inflation out there - in management pay. Call it the revenge of the downsized. (supply and demand favor managers)
Jul 14, 1997; ... DOUG KELLAM HAD HEARD ALL the stories. So when he was laid off from his job as a marketing manager at a beverage company in January, Kellam saw only worn shoe leather in his future. HE expected a yearlong, painful trek through the corporate offices of Downsized America. What Kellam didn't ...
Selling a little Net music: online CD sales sound sweet, but start off slow and stately.
Jul 14, 1997; ... Online CD sales sound sweet, but start off slow and stately PITY THE POOR TEENAGER behind the cash register this summer. It's not enough that his job is tedious and low-paying. Now he's the whipping boy in a new digital hype campaign. When retailers on the Internet ...
Bill's eye on the eye? A Microsoft bid for CBS isn't likely, but.... (Bill Gates and his media acquisitions)
Jul 14, 1997; ... A Microsoft bid for CBS isn't likely, but ... THERE'S ABSOLUTELY NO TRUTH TO it." "It's not happening." "There's no deal. No one's looking at a deal." So declared the various spokespersons for Microsoft, CBS and its parent, Westinghouse Electric, dismissing a report that the ...
Ear today, but gone tomorrow.(impact of Mike Tyson biting off part of Evander Holyfield's ear during boxing match)
Jul 14, 1997; ... It was the bite heard round the world, a repellent act that again raised disturbing questions about the state of Mike Tyson--and boxing WHEN MIKE TYSON REACHED HIS dressing room after his shameful exit from the championship fight against Evander Holyfield, he seemed far more ...
'Don't show weakness:' Black Americans still shy away from psychotherapy.
Jul 14, 1997; ... DR. ALVIN POUSSAINT remembers clearly a visit to the housing project s of Boston in the late 1960s. A public-health nurse had directed him to a woman in need of help. When he identified himself as a psychiatrist, says Poussaint, who is black, the woman refused to open her door. "She told ...
A house divided: the Episcopal Church struggles over gay marriage, adulterous clergy and its own identity.
Jul 14, 1997; ... WITH THEIR ANGLICAN HABITS OF civility, moderation and tolerance, Episcopalians have for 200 years managed to avoid the ruptures that have plagued other Protestant denominations. Despite its image as a dub, the Protestant Episcopal Church has always encouraged religious seekers to come ...
Wannabes. (British girl group, The Spice GIrls have many imitators)
Jul 14, 1997; ... The Spice Girls are the biggest British export since the Beatles, and they've spawned a slew of Shameless imitators. Meet some of the other Spices in the rack. YOU THINK WE'VE gone mad. Why are we running four huge pictures of the same people in pretty much the same pose? We ...
The end of the road: Charles Kuralt, tell of stores, 1934-1997. (CBS correspondent and anchorman)(Obituary)(Brief Article)
Jul 14, 1997; ... Charles Kuralt, teller of stories (1934-1997) ON A BITTER JANUARY MORNING in 1974, Charles Kuralt and his CBS crew were setting up on a remote illtop west of Dubuque, Iowa. They were there to do an "On the Road" segment on farmer Bill Bodisch, who hoped to sail his 58-foot ...
Who the Devil Made It.(Brief Article)
Jul 14, 1997; ... In Who the Devil Made It (849 pages. Knopf $39.95), Bogdanovich's absorbing new collection of interviews with 16 great film directors, he asks Hawks if he ever thought of moviemaking as art. When Hawks said no, Bogdanovich asked him what he did think it was. "Business," Hawks replied ....
Howard Hawks.
Jul 14, 1997; ... Todd McCarthy's Howard Hawks (756 pages. Grove Press. $35) is a respectful, exhaustive and appropriately smartass look at ...
Raymond Chandler.(Brief Article)
Jul 14, 1997; ... Tom Hiney's Raymond Chandler (310 pages. Atlantic Monthly Press. $26) offers an equally discerning portrait of the creator of Philip Marlowe, the archetypal American private eye. Superficially they were polar opposites. Hawks was a womanizing fashion plate. Chandler was a recluse married ...
Pickford.
Jul 14, 1997; ... In Pickford (Kentucky. $25), a knockout of a biography on sale next month, Eileen Whitfield shows a rare gift for making sense of acting styles, and for bringing to life the world of silent movies. Mae West was Pickford's on-screen ...
Becoming Mae West.(Brief Article)
Jul 14, 1997; ... In her zesty Becoming Mae West (Farrar, Straus and Giroux. $30), Emily Wortis Leider points out that by the time she barreled into movies, West had 35 years of theater and vaudeville behind her. She liked prizefighters, cross-dressers and stealing credit from collaborators. She wrote a lot ...
Where the books are: both Britain and France build massive monuments to culture.
Jul 14, 1997; ... THEY ARE WHAT ANGKOR WAT IS TO Cambodia, or Disney World to America: the very souls of their countries, rendered in glass, wood and brick. In Paris, the Bibliotheque Nationale de France--four towers at the comers of a vast plaza--opened last winter with an exhibition whose title ("All the ...
The all American hero. (actor Jimmy Stewart)(Obituary)
Jul 14, 1997; ... James Stewart, 1908-1997 THE STORY GOES THAT when the news first hit Hollywood of Ronald Reagan's ambitions to be president, Jack Warner, the legendarily blunt mogul, responded, "No. Jimmy Stewart for president, Ronald Reagan for best friend." We know the images that ...
Out of the shadows: Robert Mitchum, 1917-1997. (movie actor)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
Jul 14, 1997; ... Robert Mitchum, 1917-1997 WHEN DIRECTOK JIM Jarmusch heard about Jimmy Stewart's death on July 2, he had a mean thought. "Robert Mitchum," he said to himself, "overshadowed again." In death, Mitchtun was supposed to get the kind of respect the world so nonchalantly refused him ...
It's a wonderful legacy: two of Stewart's classic characters helped change how we view our politics - and ourselves. (Jimmy Stewart as George Bailey in "It's a Wonderful Life," as Jefferson Smith in "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington")(Brief Article)
Jul 14, 1997; ... Two of Stewart's classic characters helped change how we view our politics--and ourselves WHEN "MR. SMITH Goes to Washington" premi6red in the capital, in 1939, about a third of the audience of dignitaries stormed out. "Not all senators are sons of bitches," fumed one senator ....
Stick 'em up? Not anymore. Now it's crime by keyboard. (identity theft by stealing online personal information)
Jul 21, 1997; ... Kathryn Rambo got a taste of the future recently, and she didn't like it one bit. Sure, she had a new $22,000 Jeep, five credit cards, an apartment and a $3,000 loan listed in her name. Problem was, the 28-year-old special-events planner from Los Gatos, Calif., hadn't asked for any of it ....
I Saw Anne Frank die. (survivor of a Nazi concentration camp)
Jul 21, 1997; ... At the age of 100, remembering the horrors of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp I turned 100 years old in April and had a beautiful birthday party surrounded by my grandchildren, great-grandchildren and other family members. I even danced a little. Willard Scott mentioned my ...
The stars of Mars. (success of NASA's Pathfinder explorer on Mars)
Jul 21, 1997; ... As the Martian rover paid courtesy calls up and down Ares Vallis last week, she showed the exemplary manners expected of any ambassador. Before reaching out with her Alpha Proton X-Ray Spectrometer for a 10-hour handshake with "Barnacle Bill," the rover first rolled toward this blue-gray ...
Who needs astronauts? (NASA scientists responsible for the Mars Pathfinder mission)
Jul 21, 1997; ... For those of us who hold to the belief that the three most terrifying words in the English language are "Next slide, please," the journey to Mars might not have been expected to be the barn-burning news story it became. Even as the headlines ebb, people are still talking about it, and for ...
Trials and tribulations.(allegations of sexual and financial misconduct by Rev. Henry J. Lyons, leader of the National Baptist Convention)
Jul 21, 1997; ... A top pastor and his wife fend off charges about adultery, arson and a very lavish lifestyle He had it all. In the fall of 1994, the Rev. Henry J. Lyons had just been elected to lead the nation's largest African-American denomination, the 8.5 million-member National Baptist ...
What really happened? The FBI prepares to close its books on TWA 800.(airline accident)
Jul 21, 1997; ... The FBI prepares to close its books on TWA 800 Later this month a team of FBI agents and government scientists will drive out to a deserted military base two hours north of London. There they'll attach five tiny sophisticated bombs--the kind favored by international ...
Back to Birmingham.(possible resolution of unsolved church bombing case in Birmingham, AL that killed four girls in a church)
Jul 21, 1997; ... They were four girls in church--until a bomb blew them away. Three decades later, the Feds may finally be ready to crack the case. Just after 2 a.m. on sunday, Sept. 15, 1963, A blue-and-white 1957 Chevy carrying four white men pulled up next to the 16th Street Baptist Church in ...