Newsweek back issues from June 1998:
The WHO Has Seen the Future, And ft's Full of Good Health.(World Health Organization)(Brief Article)
Jun 01, 1998; ... IF YOUR HEALTH IS IN question, you go to the doctor. When the entire planet's well-being is at issue, it's the World Health Organization you consult. The group's recently released 1998 World Health Report focuses on the future-and the prognosis is excellent. If WHO experts are right, the ...
UNFINISHED BUSINESS.(people who protested the Vietnam War may not realize the psychological damage they caused veterans)(Brief Article)(Column)
Jun 01, 1998; ... BRUDNO is a management Consultant in Washington, D.C.I think it's time for anti-Vietnam War Americans to recognize the pain they causedTWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO, OUR POW'S CAME HOME FROM North Vietnam. They looked better than anyone could have imagined, after what they had ...
Savior of the streets.(fighting crime with religion in Boston, Massachusetts)
Jun 01, 1998; ... An ex-gang member who went to Harvard, Gene Rivers is an impolitic preacher on the cutting edge of a hot idea: can religion fight crime and save kids?PATRIOT'S DAY IS A CITY HOLIDAY IN Boston, but the Rev. Engene Rivers, a compact, graying black man in a blue dress shirt frayed ...
Cops, Crime and Clergy.(how police officers and clergy people work together in Boston, Massachusetts, to reduce gang activity)(Brief Article)
Jun 01, 1998; ... EVANS, a 28-year veteran of the Boston Police Department, has been commissioner since 1994.Boston's commish on how the new alliance between police and preachers works. BYI WAS A BEAT COP IN GENE Rivers' Dorchester neighborhood in the early 'TOs, but back then our paths ...
The New Holy War.(how churches fight crime in inner cities)
Jun 01, 1998; ... With DANIEL MCGINN in Cleveland, GREGORY BEALS in Newark and MATT BAI in WashingtonReligion is the latest weapon in the battle to rescue the inner city. The promises-and the potential perils-of 'faith-based' solutions.CHECK OUT ANY DYING NEIGHborhood in inner-city ...
The Lord's Foot Soldiers.(Brief Article)
Jun 01, 1998; ... From South-Central LA. to Niagara Falls, a new breed of cleric is reaching out to at-risk kids:Rev. Trevon GrossST. JOHNS AME, NIAGARA FALLS, NYBefore Trevon Gross hit town, many in his congregation had never so much as touched a computer. The 28year-old ...
The Gospel of St. John.(Sen. John Ashcroft)(Brief Article)
Jun 01, 1998; ... John Ashcroft, an evangelical Yalie, has a vision: let churches do the capital's work.JOHN ASHCROFT'S Washington seems worlds away from Eugene Rivers' Boston. A first-term Republican senator, Ashcroft is an antitax, pro-death-penalty conservative from the Missouri Ozarks, at home ...
A Son Who Spun Out of Control.(teenager Kip Kinkel, kills his parents and classmates in Springfield, Oregon)(Brief Article)
Jun 01, 1998; ... With DEBRA GWARTNEY. T. TRENT GEGAX and PAT WINGERTAn Oregon teen is charged with killing his parents and his classmates. The road to the cafeteria.With HIS SHY SMILE AND SLIGHT build 15-year-old Kip Kinkel has an innocent look that is part Huck MU Finn and part Alfred E ....
A Bloody Day in Springfield.(Kip Kinkel kills his parents one day and classmates the next in Springfield, Oregon)(Brief Article)
Jun 01, 1998 ... An ordinary Thursday at Thurston High turned tragic when 15-year-old Kip Kinkel allegedly opened fire on fellow students in the cafeteria. Twenty-two were wounded-and students Mikael Nickolauson and Ben Walker were killed. The week's events.1 On Wednesday Kinkel is arrested and ...
The Killing Season.(list of locations where teenagers killed people at school)(Brief Article)
Jun 01, 1998 ... Springfield wasn't the first. In the last 16 months, a disturbing number of youngsters are said to have fired on their fellow students and teachers, The key incidents:Feb. 19, 1997: Evan Ramsey, 16, killed his school principal and a fellow student and wounded two in Bethel, Alaska ....
A Bloodliess Coup.(Indonesia)
Jun 01, 1998; ... By manipulating Indonesia's student protesters, the military ousted Suharto. But this revolution hasn't ended yet.HE TRIED TO INSTALL A NEW cabinet, but no one would join it. He enlisted an independent council of scholars, but they dictated a humiliating promise to step down-which ...
A Harebrained Schemer.(Indonesia's B. J. Habibie)(Brief Article)
Jun 01, 1998; ... Habibie is more mad scientist than politicianTHE MAN IS A CRONY'S CRONY. WHEN FORMER PRESIDENT SUHARTO FLEW BACK to Jakarta from Cairo two weeks ago to face an escalating political crisis, his vice president, B. J. Habibie, rushed to the airport to greet "SGS," or "Super-Genius ...
Always the Best Revenge.(Indonesians call for seizure of Suharto fortune)(Brief Article)
Jun 01, 1998; ... Suharto's very rich clan will still live wellSUHARTO LOVES HIS COUNTRY, BUT HE LOVES HIS FAMILY AND FRIENDS EVEN more. During his 32-year rule, his kids and cronies enriched themselves on a scale that seems grossly excessive, even for Asian despots. Subsidies, monopolies and ...
The Other Asian Time Bomb.(Suharto's resignation)
Jun 01, 1998; ... The hot money that burned Suharto and Indonesia has not claimed its final victimIN AN ESSAY IN THE NEW YORK TIMES this spring, Roger Altman, a former official in Bill Clinton's Treasury Department, called the global capital markets the Nuke of the '90s." "When arrayed against any ...
Will It Play in New York?(Irish American response to the Irish peace accords)(Brief Article)
Jun 01, 1998; ... With STRYKER MCGUIRE and BARRY WHITE in BelfastIrish-Americans have a role in keeping the peaceHOURS AFTER THEIR POLITICAL PARty endorsed the Irish peace accords this month, Martin Ferris and Joseph Cahill boarded a plane for New York. Both men are members of Sinn Fern, ...
You Said You Wanted a Revolution.(account of the May 1968 revolt, Paris, France)(Brief Article)
Jun 01, 1998; ... Thirty years after their May revolt, France's students are members of a not-very-different ruling class.LAST WEEK AT THE OPUS CAFE, IN A SLIGHTLY SHABBY quarter of Paris, Annette Levy-Willard, former Maoist, former feminist activist and current staffer at the left-wing daily ...
Ready to Rumble.(Microsoft litigation)
Jun 01, 1998; ... After months of anticipation, the government finally filed its antitrust suit against Microsoft. Now the real fun begins.ONE OF THE LEAST SURPRISING moments in the history of technology and jurisprudence caine Monday when Janet Rena stood before a microphone to announce that the ...
One Tough [Expletive].(Robert Crandall steps down as head of American Airlines)(Brief Article)
Jun 01, 1998; ... The mixed legacy of a departing airline bossJUST AFTER THE DAWN of time -before Ronald Reagan was president, when webs were for spiders and 747's flew with piano bars-Bob Crandall became head of American Airlines Inc. Last week Crandall stepped out of American's cockpit after 18 ...
He Owns the Songs.(Seagram acquires PolyGram Records)(Brief Article)
Jun 01, 1998; ... Can Edgar Bronfman Jr. make his $10.6 billion music megadeal pay off?SOME MONTHS AGO, Seagram chief executive Edgar Bronfman Jr. called on Berry Gordy Jr., the founder of Motown Records. Bronfman was pining to buy Gordy's Jobete Music, the repository of the original songs ...
Is Organic Better?(organic food)
Jun 01, 1998; ... With MARY HAGER in Washington, D.C., KAREN SPRINGEN in Chicago and THOMAS HAYDEN in New York`Organic' food labels can mean many different things-or nothing. National standards are in the works, but they still won't guarantee you the best, safest food.SHINY RED DELICIOUS ...
Pesticides And Kids' Risks.(health risks)(Brief Article)
Jun 01, 1998; ... THE PERCENTAGE OF American crops grown organically is up a whopping 1,000 percent since the early 1990s ... all the way to 1 or 2 percent. In other words, hardly enough to stock a couple of salad bars. That means that most of the fruits, vegetables and grains that Americans eat are treated ...
A Typhoon in a Rain-Forest Eden.(controversy over orangutan researcher Birute Galdikas)(Brief Article)
Jun 01, 1998; ... An expert on orangutans is at the epicenter of an international controversyIT WAS A MEETING OF ICONS. On "In the Wild," a PBS documentary that aired last week, actress Julia Roberts journeyed to the rain forests of southern Borneo to meet Birute Galdikas, 51, the world's most ...
This Style's Got Legs. Lots of Legs.(slit skirts are latest fashion trend)(Brief Article)
Jun 01, 1998; ... OVEREXPOSURE HAS never been a crime in Hollywood. But stars are taking the slits in their skirts to new heights of public indecency. And as summer begins, you may see a high yield of thigh on city streets as well. Between civilians and gossip-column habitues, the long slit skirt is a fashion ...
Targeting a Killer Gene.(use of Herceptin to treat breast cancer)(Brief Article)
Jun 01, 1998 ... A promising new way to fight breast cancerCALL IT A GENETIC GLITCH. IN ABOUT one third of breast-cancer patients, the gene HER-2 goes into overdrive, making the disease especially aggressive. For years, researchers suspected that if they could zero in on the defect, they might he ...
The Secret Hacker wars.(need to protect government computers against information warfare)(Brief Article)
Jun 01, 1998; ... Behind the spreading battle over cyberterrorismIT LOOKED LIKE THE REAL THING. LAST February, computer experts at the Pentagon began to detect an invader- someone was hacking into the cyber systems at Air Force and Navy bases around the United States, leaving "trapdoors" that would ...
Mommy Track At the Times.(speech by New York Times editor Joyce Purnick causes controversy)(Brief Article)
Jun 01, 1998; ... A powerful woman editor runs afoul of her staffersJOYCE PURNICK WORKED 50 HARD, was "so dogged and driven," she says, that she didn't marry until she was 42. And she never had children, which she regrets. But the work paid off; she's the metropolitan editor of The New York Times, ...
This Is Your Life.
Jun 01, 1998; ... With YAHLIN CHANG and RAY SAWHILL.Ever feel like you're being watched? In an ingenious drama, 'The Truman Show,' Jim Carrey learns his whole life's been televised.THE TRUMAN SHOW' HAS BEEN broadcast live for more than 10,000 days before the star figures out he's on TV ....
And NOW, The Human Show.(Web sites using video cameras to show real life situations become cultural phenomenon)(Brief Article)
Jun 01, 1998; ... Minute to minute, real life creeps by on the WebA NA VOOG WAS JUST ANOTHER PUNK ROCKETTE ON THE MINNEAPOLIS MUSIC scene until last summer when she surfed a Web site called JenniCam and found another calling. The JenniCam made a "ceWebrity" out of Jennifer Ringley, 22, who two years ...
Hit and Miss.(1998 Cannes Film Festival)
Jun 01, 1998; ... Benigni triumphs, but Gilliam gets Cannes'dSO YOU'VE ALWAYS WANTED TO GO to the Cannes Film Festival. Excitement, glamour, great movies-right? Well, not this year. Despite the presence of a few fine films-among them John Turturro's "Illuminata," John Boorman's "The General" and ...
Unfinished Symphony.(Jeff Buckley's mother releasing singer's songs)
Jun 01, 1998; ... Jeff Buckley drowned in Memphis last year. Now his mother is releasing the songs he left behind.BEFORE JEFF BUCKLEY'S BODY WAS REcovered from the Mississippi River last June. his mother, Mary Guibert, flew from Memphis to New York to settle his affairs. On the plane, someone played ...
The New Cangsta on The Block.(Master P (Percy Miller) builds fortune with No Limit Records and Films)
Jun 01, 1998; ... With JAMES GILL in New OrleansMaster P's growing hip-hop empire is part street, part Wall StreetDA LAST DON" IS A LOW-BUDGET PICture, heading straight to video. Yet even so, there are standards. And on a spring afternoon in the Valley, there is a problem on the set: ...
OPHELIA by Natalie Merchant.
Jun 01, 1998; ... Some people think Merchant is earnest and square. For a reason, come to think of it. Her latest CD, "Ophelia," might seem pretentious if it weren't so terrific, alive with pianos and strings and as unexpectedly beautiful as R.E.M.'s "Automatic for the People." Merchant meditates on ...
VERSION 2.0 by Garbage.
Jun 01, 1998; ... On Garbage's 1995 debut CD, the band came on like a self-consciously corrupted '90s version of Fleetwood Mac. Catchy melodies, sure-fire hooks, tasty, understated guitar, immaculate production (by the group's mastermind, Butch Vig) and a singer and frontwoman (Shirley Manson) trafficking ...
CLINCH MOUNTAIN COUNTRY by Ralph Stanley.
Jun 01, 1998 ... With Bill Monroe gone and Earl Scruggs mostly inactive, banjo-player and hard-edged tenor singer Stanley, 71, is the last bluegrass patriarch still out there. He plays 100-odd gigs a year and his voice cuts much as it did in the 70s, when stars-to-be Ricky Skaggs and Keith Whitley served ...
Darkness Into Light.(The Mark Rothko Retrospective, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)
Jun 01, 1998; ... THE MARK ROTHKO RETROSPECTIVE at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. (through Aug. 16), is a shining example of what a first-class museum can do with a first-rate artist. More than 100 paintings-most of them containing Rotbko's signature fuzzy-edged, lusciously colored, floating ...
A Storm in The Streets.(Brief Article)
Jun 01, 1998; ... John Lewis evokes the war over civil rightsJUST AFTER 9:30 ON MARCH 7, 1965, ABC's Frank Reynolds broke into the network's Sunday-night movie-the first broadcast of "Judgment at Nuremberg" -with a report from Selma, Ala. That afternoon, a nonviolent crowd of 600 well-dressed blacks ...
By Our Writers.(Children's Review)(Brief Article)
Jun 01, 1998; ... In "AMISTAD RISING A STORY OF FREEdom" (Harcourt Brace. $16), her first hook for children, NEWSWEEK Culture writer Veronica Chambers recounts the true story of Joseph Cinque, the young African who led a revolt on the slave ship Amistad in 1839. Chambers, who's the author of the highly ...
The Land of The Spree.
Jun 01, 1998; ... Warning America about its spendthrift waysONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO, "CONsumption" meant fever, chills and coughing up blood. The millennial disease has different symptoms: credit-card debt, exhaustion and dumps full of old VCRs. In The Overspent American (Basic Books. $25), economist ...
The Bountiful Breast.(the advantages of breast-feeding)
Jun 01, 1998; ... Mother's milk is a miracle tonic. Make sure your baby gets herBREAST MILK IS THE mother of all medicines, Babies who drink it get the nutrients they need for proper brain development, while lowering their risk of everything from allergies and infections to diarrhea, eczema and ...
Viagra Warning.(six men, who were also taking nitrates, have died after taking Viagra)(Brief Article)
Jun 01, 1998 ... SIX PEOPLE HAVE DIED while taking Viagra. It was reported that they were men who had taken nitrates, including the common chest-pain treatment nitroglycerin, along with the potency drug. The drug's maker, Pfizer, could not confirm these details, and it's not clear that Viagra contributed to ...
Designed For Health.(Columbia Presbyterian Hospital is redesigning the rooms in its children's ward on the theory that friendlier rooms will make for faster healing)(Brief Article)
Jun 01, 1998 ... THE NEW PEDIATRIC INTENsive-care unit at New York's Columbia Presbyterian Hospital tests the notion that nice rooms speed healing. If successful, it will be a model for redesigns of other bleak wards. Dr. Howard Zucker, 38, a real-life Doogie Howser who entered college at the age of 15 and ...
Your Brain On DHEA.(studies indicate that the drug DHEA may improve both memory and mood)(Brief Article)
Jun 01, 1998 ... COULD TAKING THE hormone DHEA boost your mood and memory? It's still too soon to say, but intriguing hints are cropping up, Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, recently found that DHEA can speed the growth of nerve fibers in fetal brain tissue from mice and humans ....
Heels Sock Knees.(researchers believe that women's high-heeled shoes may lead to arthritic knees)(Brief Article)
Jun 01, 1998; ... ARTHRITIC KNEES ARE TWICE AS COMMON IN women as in men, and a new study suggests that glamorous shoes are at least partly to blame. Harvard researchers attached markers to various parts of women's legs and videotaped them walking on a laboratory runway, both barefoot and in narrow ...
Behind the Smoke Screen.(files from R.J. Reynolds Industries indicates that consultants told the company that the cartoon symbol 'Joe Camel' would appeal to kids)(Brief Article)
Jun 01, 1998 ... Even though Joe Camel was legally banished from ads last year, R.J. Reynolds maintains he wasn't designed to lure children. Now you can read the company's own uncensored records and judge for yourself. The Tobacco Control Archives, a resource of the UC, San Francisco, Library, recently ...
Is This the Face of a Psycho Killer?(Leonardo DiCaprio will play the main character in the movie based on the book 'American Psycho')(Brief Article)
Jun 01, 1998 ... HE'S THE DREAMBOAT WHO fantasies of 13-year-old girls. But now Leonardo DiCaprio, 23, isn't just jumping ship; he's changing planets. If negotiations go his way, he'll be playing the ultra-sadistic title character in "American Psycho," based on Bret Easton Ellis's controversial 1991 novel ...
Better Late Than Never.(actress Carol Channing has filed for divorce from Charles Lowe, after 41 years of marriage)(Brief Article)
Jun 01, 1998; ... SHE'S BROADWAY MOST famous matchmaker, but Carol Channing, 77, apparently feels she didn't pick her own spouse wisely. The usually ditzy comedienne was solemn last week when she announced she was seeking a divorce from Charles Lowe, 86, her husband of 41 years-because, she charged, he ...
Pit Stop.(automobile racing driver J.T. Hayes has announced that he is a transsexual who will go under the name of Tern O'Connell and continue being a racing driver)(Brief Article)
Jun 01, 1998 ... IN THE 1980s HE WAS J. T. Hayes, up-and-coming NASCAR driver. Then he dropped out of sight. Now we know why. Hayes decided to switch gears in 1992, and now he's back and going by the name Tern O'Connell, racing's first transsexual driver, as far as we know. "It was like, 'I really am a ...
Maybe He Should Buy the Bar.(electrician Frank Capacl wins $104 million in Powerball lottery)(Brief Article)
Jun 01, 1998 ... WHO SAYS HANGING OUT IN BARS IS A BAD IDEA? MOST DAYS retired electrician Frank Capacl, 67, downs a few beers at his favorite tavern in Streamwood, Ill. Last week, joining the Powerball lottery frenzy, be gave $5 to a bartender at Bill's on Bartlett to buy him some tickets in Wisconsin ....
THEY WON'T THEY CAN'T.(naive foreign policy assumptions)
Jun 01, 1998; ... We miss crises because we don't understand what motivates other people.THERE WAS A FAMOUS ARTICLE THAT APPEARED IN THE 1960s on the subject of China and its nuclear potential. It was written by an authoritative foreign-policy establishment figure, whose words commanded great ...
PERSPECTIVES.(quotes from people in the news)(Brief Article)
Jun 08, 1998 ... "Yes, by the grace of God."Foreign Minister Gohar Ayub Khan, when asked if Pakistan had carried out additional nuclear tests on Saturday. Pakistan set off five test blasts last Thursday in response to India's detonations three weeks ago."He'll be a chapter in American ...
Out of Pandora's Box.(nuclear proliferation)(Brief Article)
Jun 08, 1998; ... Pakistan's nuclear tests have put nonproliferation at risk. It's about time the rich world paid attention to the Productions of the Subcontinent.TO MAKE SENSE OF THE INEFFABLE MAN turns to myth. At dawn of July 16.1945. Robert Oppenheimer watched the first atomic bomb explode in ...
Nuclear Jitters.
Jun 08, 1998; ... With KAREN BRESLAU in Washington, CARLA POWER in Islamabad. SUDIP MAZUMDAR in New Delhi, GREGORY BEALS at the United Nations and bureau reportsPakistan's desert detonations were a widely expected response to India's. Now the world must find a way to deal with the consequences. ...
Pakistan's Bomb Builder.(Abdel Qadeer Khan)(Brief Article)
Jun 08, 1998; ... Around the globe, the father of the country's nuclear-weapons program is considered armed and dangerousABDEL QADEER KHAN IS a national hero in Pakistan: the Father of its Bomb. Like Robert Oppenheimer in the United States and Andrei Sakharov in the Soviet Union, Khan, 62, heads a ...
Marching Into Battle.(Kenneth Starr's investigation into alleged Clinton-Lewinsky affair)(Brief Article)
Jun 08, 1998; ... The Clintonites may be confident in public, but in private Starr is winning legal skirmishes as he tries to crack the walls around the Monica scandalTHE WHITE HOUSE SPINNERS AND lawyers handling the Monica Lewinsky scandal have had every reason to feel sure of themselves. Since the ...
Clinton's Chinese Puzzle.(Brief Article)
Jun 08, 1998; ... New questions about links between technology, trade and cash are clouding the president's trip to BeijingRON BROWN ALWAYS knew how to make a deal. In August1994, the Commerce secretary traveled to China to promote American business. High on the agenda: helping McDonnell Douglas, ...
'Kid Is Out of Control'.(alleged teenage killer Kip Kinkel)
Jun 08, 1998; ... His father knew things were going terribly wrong-but what to do? The family story behind young Kip Kinkel's alleged rampage in Oregon.IN THE LAST TELEPHONE call he made before he died, Bill Kinkel seemed to sense an approaching catastrophe. Hours earlier, on the morning of ...
Lessons From the Front.(Boston program for troubled students)(Brief Article)
Jun 08, 1998; ... PAT WINGERTHow to prevent school shootings? Crack down at the hint of a threat-and then follow up, one kid at a time.KIP KINKEL WASN'T THE first. Though school-related killings have statistically fallen over the past five years, there have been a half-dozen major ...
The Founding Father.(Barry Goldwater)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
Jun 08, 1998; ... Remembering Barry Goldwater-the salty, straight-talking conservative icon who gave us the Gipper and the modern GOPBARRY GOLDWATER HAD TIME TO WASTE. IN THE DAYS leading up up to his speech to the 1964 Republican convention in San Francisco, the Arizona senator sat in his suite in ...
What Really Ails Russia.(Brief Article)
Jun 08, 1998; ... Last week's financial panic had little to do with Asian fluTHE ERA OF OFFICIAL HAPPY TALE about the "new Russia" ended last week. No more chirping from Western economists pleased as punch about how remarkable it is, just seven years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, that ...
The Feeling Isn't Mutual.(Brief Article)
Jun 08, 1998; ... SLOAN is NEWSWEEK'S Wall Street editor. His e-mail address is sloan@panix.com.Big insurers want to change how they're owned- some the right way, and some the other wayMOST OF THE TIME, WATCHING MUtual-insurance companies is about as much fun as watching fungus grow. The ...
Losing the Name Game.(trademarks)(Brief Article)
Jun 08, 1998; ... The tech boom is making good trademarks scarceIT IS ONE OF THE MOST important decisions a company makes: what to name a new product. Ray Cheng, CEO of Global Network Architects, thought he had an answer for his new software suite: Intuity. The name, one of 45 suggested by an ...
RFK's Last Campaign.
Jun 08, 1998; ... THOMAS, an assistant managing editor, is at work on a biography of Robert F. Kennedy.Thirty years after his assassination, how the tension and tumult of Robert Kennedy's final days -and his death- changed our politicsLATE AT NIGHT, ROBERT F. KENNEDY would sometimes come ...
What If RFK Had Survived?(Brief Article)
Jun 08, 1998; ... SCHLESINGER, historian and former special assistant to President Kennedy, is author of "Robert Kennedy and His Times."An end to Vietnam, no Watergate, a chance for liberalism-Kennedy's biographer on the might-have-beens.WHY DO AMERICANS RECALL ROBERT KENNEDY SO vividly? ...
The Day the Jokes Stopped.(Phil Hartman murder-suicide incident)(Brief Article)
Jun 08, 1998; ... With TARA WEINGARTEN, ANDREW MURR, CORIF BROWN, PAMELA LANSDEN and ANA FIGUEROA in Los Angeles and YAHLIN CHANG in New YorkComedian Phil Hartman's wife apparently kills him at home and then turns the gun on herselfPHIL HARTMAN WAS ALWAYS A master of appearances ....
Hey, Look What I Found.(distant star discovered)(Brief Article)
Jun 08, 1998; ... The Hubble telescope snaps a picture of a planet near a distant starUNTIL NOW, ASTRONOMERS SEARCHing the skies for planets beyond our neighborhood nine have faced one glaring problem-literally: planets orbit so close to their star that, to an observer on Earth, they are lost in the ...