Newsweek back issues from April 1998:
The all-day, all-night, global, no-trouble job search. (Internet)
Apr 06, 1998; ... Jennifer Meltzer, A human-resources manager at Tiffany & Co., was in a quandary. She ad two corporate sales positions to fill--one in Austin, Texas, the other in Seattle--but didn't want to spend the crown jewels finding the right applicants. In the past, Meltzer would have placed ads in ...
Why children turn violent.(Cover Story)
Apr 06, 1998; ... Movies, videogames, loose guns, alienation--there's no one reason kids kill, but there are warning signs. We're used to seeing greed, Jealousy and dashed hopes turn adults into murderers. But why would boys of 11 and 13 spray bullets into a crowd of their peers? How could such ...
Harnessing the hysteria. (massacre in Jonesboro, AK)(Column)
Apr 06, 1998; ... As the shots in Jonesboro fade, let's channel our grief into the larger cause of helping kids One of the most shocking things about the Jonesboro massacre is that it's still shocking--that America's bottomless capacity for violence has not fully numbed us yet. Kids who kill is ...
Africa dreams. (President Bill Clinton's trip to Africa)
Apr 06, 1998; ... On his historic trip, Bill Clinton played to the folks at home white he offered encouragement and advice to his hosts. But for a continent struggling to move from dictatorship and poverty to democracy and free markets, more is needed. Bill Clinton is not easily overshadowed. Yet ...
Is this any way to run a country? (Russian president Boris Yeltsin)
Apr 06, 1998; ... Boris Yeltsin has sacked his entire cabinet. More bizarre behavior, or a real effort at reform? Russia's President had coyly suggested for months that he knew exactly who should succeed him in 2000, the year the country is scheduled to hold its next presidential election. And ...
Her father's keeper. (Tatyana Dyachenko, daughter of Boris Yeltsin)
Apr 06, 1998; ... Yeltsin's daughter is his closest confidante In Boris Yeltsin's quicksand Kremlin, Ministers and Advisors rise and fall, but Tatyana Dyachenko is always on solid ground. The president's younger daughter is his nurse, nanny and most trusted counselor. Two years ago, she helped him ...
A star image blurs. (George Fisher of Eastman Kodak)
Apr 06, 1998; ... When Kodak's George Fisher was hailed as a savior-CEO, he didn't buy the hype. Now that his turnaround has stalled, he has lots of company. If there were a mount rushmore of today's business icons, George Fisher's face would be on it. In the last decade Fisher rose from virtual ...
A brand-new chapter. (purchase of Random House by Bertelsmann)
Apr 06, 1998; ... In a surprise deal, the German giant Bertelsmann buys the last word in words, Random House No one saw it coming. Last fall the German media conglomerate Bertelsmann AG quietly approached billionaire S. I. (Si) Newhouse Jr. about buying Random House, home to authors as diverse as ...
The war over King's legacy. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
Apr 06, 1998; ... Thirty years ago, on the eve of his murder, Martin Luther Jr.'s Dream was turning dark. Worried about poverty and Vietnam, he was growing more radical--and that, his family says, is why he was killed. Was the real King a saint, a subversive--or both? The sun was about to set. On ...
The children who would be King. (children of Martin Luther King, Jr.)
Apr 06, 1998; ... When the nation lost its modern-day prophet, they lost their dad. Burdened by a famous name, they've struggled to find themselves in a world where everyone else thinks they know who the Kings should be. Behind Martin Luther King Inc. As His Father did, Dexter Scott King has a ...
'Passion in every pitch.' (Boston Red Sox pitcher Pedro Martinez)
Apr 06, 1998; ... In Boston as baseball's highest-paid player, Pedro Martinez is out of the spotlight no longer At Pedro Martinez's first major-league spring training, the scrawny young Dominican was sometimes mistaken for the team batboy. Now, six seasons later, Pedro remains a willowy 5 feet 11 ...
Fighting back - with style. (editor Liz Tilberis)
Apr 06, 1998; ... Editor Lis Tilberis tells of glitter, glamour and, most of all, survival Liz Tilberis begins her story on a night in 1993 when her life seemed as glossy and perfect as the images in the magazine she edits, Harper's Bazaar. She was 46 and had been happily married to her husband, ...
The man who fired himself. (Gary Shandling)
Apr 06, 1998; ... Garry Shandling, and Larry Sanders, pull a Seinfeld It's a classic vignette of show-business nastiness, the kind that viewers have come to expect from "The Larry Sanders Show." In this episode, shown last month, the talk show's deeply neurotic host (played with deadpan wit by the ...
Download some manners, upgrade your career. (etiquette instruction)
Apr 06, 1998; ... Uncouth techno-types learn to behave like grown-ups at this Silicon Valley finishing school The modern silicon valley gearhead sure needs to know a lot of things: there's writing arcane computer code, e-mailing John Doerr about lunch, how to spend that first $100 million. And ...
The pinnacle of success. (author Charles Frazier)
Apr 06, 1998; ... `Cold Mountain' is leading the charge of literary novels that exalt the past. Meanwhile, its author Charles Frazier is enduring a wild ride through the celebrity machinery of the '90s. The word on author Charles Frazier is that he doesn't like to smile when he has his picture ...
Recasting the past. (popularity of historical novels)
Apr 06, 1998 ... Novelist are clamoring to rewrite history Charles Frazier may be historical fiction's latest poster boy, but he's had a lot of competition for the title. Last year Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon and Caleb Carr also produced best-selling historical fiction. And this spring that ...
Women behaving badly. (author Elizabeth Wurtzel)
Apr 06, 1998; ... Infamous prodigy Elizabeth Wurtzel caught the wave with `Prozac Nation.' Now she's back with `Bitch,' a rousing defense of female rage. The famously depressed Elizabeth Wurtzel arrives late for lunch in Manhattan, exhausted and clearly unhappy. Even though her see second book, ...
From raunch to romance. (trends in rhythm and blues)
Apr 06, 1998; ... A new generation of R&B singers are finally getting in touch with their sensitive side Growing up, Gerald Levert, had a hard time listening to his father's sappy love songs. As the lead singer of the '70s group the O'Jays, Eddie Levert used his smooth baritone to sing love ...
It's time for 'Teletubbies.' (children's show from the UK)
Apr 06, 1998; ... Already a smash in the U.K., a new kids' show invades PBS They are a sensation. They are a scandal. They are "Teletubbies." Po, Dipsy, Laa-Laa and Tinky Winky are futuristic toddlers who stroll among the flowers of Teletubbyland. They bump bellies. They giggle and fall down. They ...
The magic of touch. (massage)
Apr 06, 1998; ... A weekly massage may seem an indulgence, but new research suggests it can have major health benefits Michelle huddle trims the bones and gristle from 330 chicken breasts an hour, five hours a day, on a packing line at Wampler Foods. That's a lot of chicken--and a lot of strain on ...
Checking your vessels. (test for heart attack)
Apr 06, 1998; ... Are you headed for a heart attack despite your tow cholesterol? A $400 test makes it easier to find out. When your cholesterol is in the stratosphere and slicing bread makes your chest ache, you know yon have a problem. Unfortunately, arterial disease doesn't always present such ...
Pesticide risk for toddlers. (chlorpyrifos)
Apr 06, 1998 ... Chlorpyrifos, the most widely used home pesticide in America, is great for killing fleas, termites and cockroaches. But it can also make people sick. Young children are especially susceptible to the popular pesticide, according to a report in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives ....
Take that! Dastardly junk food. (nutritional information)
Apr 06, 1998 ... Kids don't like practical information disguised as "fun" but they might be fooled by two recent comics that sugarcoat health propaganda with escapist entertainment. "The Race Against Junk Food" (39 pages. HCOM Inc. $9.95), for kids under 9, follows a boy named Tommy and his cadre of ...
Web watch: e-gripes.
Apr 06, 1998 ... A Web site intended to make people feel better is now becoming a political force. The Sapient Health Network (www.shn.net) offers detailed health news about chronic illnesses like asthma and depression, and bulletin boards where people share ideas and hopes. Last fall nearly 10,000 ...
Ulcers and pain relief.
Apr 06, 1998 ... Most people don't realize that the easy pain relief promised on TV commercials can come with serious side effects, including bleeding ulcers and death. But nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) such as aspirin, ibuprofen and naproxen kill 7,600 Americans each year--roughly ...
A little jiggle may do you in. (overweight)
Apr 06, 1998 ... Want a good, quick gauge of your overall health and risk of chronic illness? A new study in the journal Lancet suggests that your fortune maybe written on the waistband of your trousers. Researchers at Glasgow University, in Scotland, found that regardless of height, men with waists ...
More lasers, less lidocaine - meet Dr. Friendly, D.D.S. (innovations in dentistry)(2000: The Millennium Notebook)(Brief Article)
Apr 13, 1998; ... For at least the past thousand years, dentists have battled two major foes: tooth decay and their image as an army of white-coated sadists. Tooth decay has begun to yield to better nutrition, fluoride, various sealants and miles upon miles of mint-flavored floss. The image problem, ...
Reeling in the years.(decline in number of years before a new invention reaches the public)(Brief Article)(Illustration)
Apr 13, 1998 ... Thanks in part to yesterday's inventions, new technologies are reaching a quarter of the U.S. population faster than ever. <Pre> DATE/INVENTION YEARS TILL MASS USE 1873 Electricity 46 1876 Telephone 35 1886 Gas ...
Goodbye to all that: I left the rat race and the big city for a small fishing village. Anyone can do it.(Brief Article)(Column)
Apr 13, 1998; ... I left the rat race and the big city for a small fishing village. Anyone can do it. Driving in the nation's fourth largest city recently, I pulled into a convenience store and watched the people. They seemed hassled. Even the happy-looking ones were rushed and wary. Some locked ...
A break in the clouds.(dismissal of Paula Jones' sexual harassment suit against Pres. Clinton)(includes related information)
Apr 13, 1998; ... A judge throw out Paula Jones's sexual-harassment suit and gave Bill Clinton a big win--for now. But his nemesis Ken Starr is still on the case. What's the next move? Ken Starr felt like he was making some progress. On Sunday, March 29, Starr met with Attorney General Janet Reno ...
The 'conspiracy' at work? The White House loves this tale of right-wing payoffs.(accusation that David Hale received a payoff for his Whitewater testimony from conservative group financed by Richard Mellon Scaife)(Brief Article)(Cover Story)
Apr 13, 1998; ... The White House loves this tale of right-wing payoffs It is a tale to warm a White House spin doctor's heart. An Arkansas mother and son have told federal investigators that one of the key witnesses against the Clintons in the Whitewater investigation was paid off by right-wing ...
Looking at a scary prospect: why House Republicans are nervous about possible impeachment hearings - and also about Newt.(Newt Gingrich)(Brief Article)(Cover Story)
Apr 13, 1998; ... Why House Republicans are nervous about possible impeachment hearings--and also about Newt. The "natural source" vitamins are large and come in a box that promises to burn fat, build muscle. Newt Gingrich swallows a bunch at every lunch, which this day consists of steak (trimmed) ...
It's only one good week: if he still wants to build a legacy, Clinton should come clean.(Brief Article)(Cover Story)
Apr 13, 1998; ... If he still wants to build a legacy, Clinton should come clean. Christmas, 1993. It was a great time in the Clinton White House. We'd passed an economic plan, NAFTA and the Brady bill. We finally felt we were in control. Only one cloud remained: a woman named Paula. To be honest, ...
Depleting his account: this scandal has imposed a long-term opportunity cost - for Clinton and for us.(Brief Article)(Cover Story)
Apr 13, 1998; ... This scandal has imposed a long-term opportunity cost--for Clinton and for us Slept with the Governor back in the '80s? Zzzz .... His bimbo-busters told you to lie? Old news. We'll get a few more jolts down the road--the first Monica interview, the juicy details of the Starr ...
A search for answers in a wounded town: in the aftermath of incomprehensible tragedy, the people of Jonesboro try to remember what 'normal' was.(Jonesboro, Arkansas)(Brief Article)
Apr 13, 1998; ... In the aftermath of incomprehensible tragedy, the people of Jonesboro try to remember what `normal' was Sweet with the Aroma of freshly turned earth and ripe with the promise of spring, a southern breeze riffles the white ribbons that everywhere commemorate the dead. Jonesboro, ...
Targeting gun makers: tired of sparring with the NRA, victims and gun-control lobbyists have begun to sue the industry.(Brief Article)
Apr 13, 1998; ... Tired of sparring with the NRA, victims and gun-control lobbyist have begun to sue the industry Natalie Brook's parents want someone to pay for her murder--and not just the two boys who allegedly did the shooting. Natalie was one of the Jonesboro victims. The family's lawyer, ...
Beijing spring.(debate on democracy in China)
Apr 13, 1998; ... Tectonic forces tug at China. Just ask the students at Beijing's Chinese Geological University. On a recent Saturday evening some 150 of them packed into a dreary lecture hall to listen to 69 year-old economist Mao Yushi author of "The Future of Chinese Ethics." Speaking for two hours, he ...
A way out for Wang.(China to release dissident Wang Dan on medical parole)(Brief Article)
Apr 13, 1998; ... Courting global public opinion, China is set to release another dissident. What about the remaining 3,000? For Wang Lingyun, mother of jailed Chinese dissident Wang Dan, visiting her son is a monthly routine. On the way out of her Beijing apartment, she passes two plain-clothes ...
Guilty, but not very: a court says Papon did not help kill the Jews.(Maurice Papon, a former official of the Vichy government in France, was convicted of complicity in the arrest of Jews during World War II and sentenced to 10 years in prison)(Brief Article)
Apr 13, 1998; ... A court says Papon did not help to kill the Jews Maurice Papon thought the issue was simple. "I am either guilty or innocent," he told the three judges and nine lay jurors who would decide his fate. "It's all or nothing." But in the end, the verdict reflected the ambiguity that ...
Another embarrassment for the CIA.(Douglas Groat, who helped break the codes of foreign countries, becomes the third Central Intelligence Agency employee to be charged with espionage)(Brief Article)
Apr 13, 1998 ... In retrospect, there were plenty of warning signals about Douglas Groat. In 1977, before he got a job at the CIA, he was fired from a small police force in upstate New York for disciplinary problems. He was reinstated only after an appeal. It isn't clear how Groat got hired at the CIA, ...
What goes up....(stock prices)
Apr 13, 1998; ... Stocks have been going up lately at a rate that can't possibly continue. You'd better enjoy the party while it's going on, because it's sure not going to last forever. Break out the noisemakers and funny hats. It's party time again. As almost all stock owners know, the Dow Jones ...
First comes electricity, then cable: a shrewd TV mogul has big plans for Africa.(Bob Johnson of Black Entertainment Television hopes to move into the African market)(Brief Article)
Apr 13, 1998; ... A shrewd TV mogul has big plans for Africa In business, as in politics, it helps to have friends in the right places. When Hillary Clinton introduced Bob Johnson to the First Lady of Ghana during Bill C]inton's recent trip to Africa, the CEO of Black Entertainment Television was ...
What's taking so long? Holocaust victims haven't seen much compensation from the Swiss. But don't blame the banks this time.(bureaucratic tactics and arguments among groups and claimants are delaying compensation by Swiss banks)(Brief Article)
Apr 13, 1998; ... Holocaust victims haven't seen much compensation from the Swiss. But don't blame the banks this time. Cramped in their Hallandale, Fla., apartment, living on Social Security, Steven and Judy Foty can only wonder at the mysterious cogs of justice creaking far away. They have read ...
Turning up the heat: cigarette makers fume as a once unthinkable bill gains in the Senate - but don't bet against a deal.(includes related article on teenage smoking)
Apr 13, 1998; ... Cigarette makers fume as a once unthinkable bill gains in the Senate--but don't bet against a deal The lobbyists were scared. As senators hurried last week to draft landmark tobacco legislation, industry advocates looked on with fright. Each amendment to soften the legislation ...
Living in the Holy Spirit.('Spirit-led worship')(includes related information on the Spirit in art)
Apr 13, 1998; ... `Spirit-led worship is a body-shaking soul stirring experience for millions of charismatic believers. But that power can upset the balance of the Trinity, the core doctrine of the Christian faith. You will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my ...
Was mercy the motive? (Efren Saldivar, suspect in murders of hospital patients)
Apr 13, 1998; ... A California hospital worker confesses to killing dozens of patients--and then quietly disappears Efren Saldivar seemed unflapable. On a Wednesday evening last month, the 28-year-old therapist walked calmly into the Glendale, Calif., police headquarters to face questions about a ...
Blame it on Rios. (Chilean tennis star Marcelo Rios)
Apr 13, 1998; ... Marcelo Rios is Latin America's first No. 1 player. And he doesn't care what you think. Maybe it was the dense fog hanging over the Santiago airport, but Marcelo Rios seemed more elusive than ever last week when he returned home as the first Latin American tennis player in ...
Direct from Paris... to the mall: using an army of trend forecasters, Sears scouts the runways in europe and New York to capture styles that can be copied cheaply for the rest of us. (Sears, Roebuck and Co.)
Apr 13, 1998; ... Using an army of trend forecasters, Sears scouts the runways in Europe and New York to capture styles that can be copied cheaply for the rest of us One afternoon last month, while supermodels were getting ready to pound the New York runways, a select group of fashion editors ...
A growing experience: spring is here and children's gardens are in bloom. (teaching students the value of gardening)
Apr 13, 1998; ... The first year she "helped" in the garden, Molly Hampshire unplanted more than she planted. So what if her father, John, has turned the backyard into a leafy version of Felix Unger's sock drawer: every crop in its own carefully weeded, four-foot-square plot. "I thought it was important to ...
Does size really matter? (research on the size of the Milky Way)
Apr 13, 1998; ... Here's a galactic reality check. New calculations announced at the National Astronomy Meeting in Britain last week suggest that our galaxy, the Milky Way, might be quite a bit smaller than we thought it was. Seems like someone would have figured this one out already, but it's a tricky ...
Memories of meals past: sex still sells biographies, but cookery is catching up. (growing popularity of memoirs and reminiscences centered on food)
Apr 13, 1998; ... Sex still sells biographies, but cookery is catching up George Lang has traveled, cooked, dined and opened restaurants all over the world. He's savored the street food of Jakarta and served cherry strudel to Pope John Paul II. But when he gazes back on his eventful life, he often ...
The court of King Jim: in the wake of the huge success of 'Titanic', James Cameron throws a tantrum, and Hollywood learns a surprising lesson.
Apr 13, 1998; ... In the wake of the huge success of `Titanic,' James Cameron throws a tatrum, and Hollywood learns a surprising lesson You'd think that winning 11 Oscars and making more than $1 billion at the box office would be enough. Not for James ("King of the World") Cameron. His need for ...
The Butcher Boy.
Apr 13, 1998; ... Neil Jordan gets inside the mind of a pint-size killer There's a racket going on inside the head of 12-year-old Francie Brady (Eamonn Owens), the exuberant, apple-checked and terrifying hero of Neil Jordan's The Butcher Boy. Francie, who has at best a hit-or-miss relationship ...
Wait Until Dark. (Brooks Atkinson Theatre, New York, New York)
Apr 13, 1998; ... Some matters remain beyond human comprehension. No one, for example, has ever directly observed black holes--collapsed stars so dense that they swallow their own light. Luckily, astrophysicists may now flock to Broadway, where they can at last witness a black hole. It's called, ...
Wild Man Blues.
Apr 13, 1998; ... The filmmaker lets a documentary camera into his life. But has it captured the real Allen? Wild Man Blues may be the only documentary we're ever going to have about Woody Allen, so it's kind of a historic event. How come the famously private Allen invited someone else's camera ...
The Short History of a Prince.
Apr 13, 1998; ... Best-selling novelist Jane Hamilton maps the bittersweet world of a young gay man in the `70s Early in Jane Hamilton's gentle and reflective new novel The Short History of a Prince (349 pages. Random House. $23), there's a scene that beautifully captures the tangled emotions at ...
The lustrous world of Jan van Eyck. (Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
Apr 13, 1998; ... Seeing the two 570-year-old oil paintings side by side at the Philadelphia Museum of Art's exhibition "Recognizing Van Eyck" is an amazing visual experience. They are identical scenes of "St. Francis of Assisi Receiving the Stigmata"--except that one is about five inches square while the ...
Paperback think tank. (a new series of paperbacks from Ballantine Books called the Library of Contemporary Thought will be released at about one per month)(Brief Article)
Apr 13, 1998; ... New line of books, same old names. Plus Imus. It's too Late now to warn ballantine against weighing down its new series of paperbacks by calling it the Library of Contemporary Thought. The first of these volumes, scheduled to appear at the rate of one a month, is already out: ...
Blood Work.(Brief Article)
Apr 13, 1998; ... by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown. $23.95). You won't see a better high-concept hook this year: Terrell McCaleb, retired FBI agent, has a transplanted heart beating in his chest. He's still recovering from the operation when a mysterious, beautiful woman comes aboard his sailboat moored ...
Walking Out on the Boys.(Brief Article)
Apr 13, 1998; ... (Farrar Straus Giroux. $24). Conley was one of the boys, and proud of it. A top neurosurgeon at Stanford, she kept quiet when her male colleagues groped, grabbed or insulted any woman they wanted to, including her. But when one of the worst offenders was promoted ...
Confederates in the Attic.(Brief Article)
Apr 13, 1998; ... by Tony Horwitz (Pantheon. $27.50). Befriending a group of hard-core Civil War battle re-enactors near his Virginia home in 1990, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Horwitz became obsessed with their obsession. He soon discovered that below the Mason-Dixon line, the obsession runs rampant ...
The unsinkable starship. (new CD-ROM adventure game 'Starship Titanic,' designed by Douglas Adams, author of the popular 'Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' books)
Apr 13, 1998; ... Hitchhiker Douglas Adams gets his career back on course. The plot of this year's best new CD-ROM adventure game sounds familiar: a majestic, seemingly indestructible ship meets disaster on its maiden voyage. But this is not the story you know. This is a starship, populated by a ...
You've got mail - and it's free: as long as you don't mind a little advertising. (free electronic mail services)
Apr 13, 1998; ... As long as you don't mind a little advertising Your mother was wrong. You can get something for nothing: e-mail. Several Web-based companies are giving away e-mail accounts without requiring you to buy any software or pay any fees. Simply fill out an online application, point ...
He's not home alone now. (teen actors Rachel Miner and Macaulay Culkin, both 17, announce their marriage intentions)(Brief Article)
Apr 13, 1998; ... She's playing Anne Frank's sister on Broadway in one of the saddest true stories ever told. He's a former child star from a miserably broken family. So Rachel Miner and Macaulay Culkin, both 17, decided to do something joyful together: last week they announced that they planned to get ...
Daddy's girl. (13-year-old Athina Onassis Roussel, granddaughter of Aristotle Onassis, will inherit $600 million when she turns 18)(Brief Article)
Apr 13, 1998; ... Thierry Roussel said he brought his daughter Athina Onassis Roussel (Ari's granddaughter), 13, on a family vacation to Greece last month to teach her about her heritage, which includes the $600 million she'll get when she turns 18. Roussel and four Greeks are cotrustees of that fortune; ...