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Convicted of the worst act of domestic terror in American history, Tim McVeigh now faces the ultimate penalty. For a jury in Denver, the question is life or death, mercy [...]

As Tim McVeigh goes on trial for his life, a NEWSWEEK investigation uncovers the inside story of how the Feds managed to crack the conspiracy to bomb Oklahoma City. THE [...]

TODRICK HARDING WAS 8 YEARS old when he finally heard the news, and at first he didn't understand it. For weeks, rescue workers had combed the rubble of the Alfred [...]

Like the bulldozers that cleared the bloody rubble of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, the FBI's investigation of the OKBomb conspiracy has been massive and unsubtle--a [...]

A Tribute to Americans Who Care THERE ARE THOUSANDS OF THEM, tireless men, women--and teenagers, too--who are quietly making a difference in communities across the country. In an age when [...]

Researchers have measured water temperatures 15-20 degrees higher than normal in the Great Lakes and speculate on the ecological impact to the area. Issues of urbanization, toxic chemicals, air pollution, and global warming are discussed as contributing to the environmental damage.

The jury simply didn't buy McVeigh's defense and decided he should die THE MOOD INSIDE THE JURY ROOM solemn and sometimes tearful: at one point or another, all of the [...]

He's spent his life sexually abusing children. But Leroy Hendricks has served his prison sentence. Can Kansas find a way to keep him off the streets? SHOULD LEROY Hendricks be [...]

The case itself was bizzarre enough and the political furor even stranger: is this the way Americans debate crime? In Addison, Ill., last week, two men and a woman were [...]

Focuses on Russell Eugene Weston Jr., who is charged with the July 1998 Capitol Hill shooting in Washington, D.C. Weston's name in the Secret Service database of possible troublemakers; Weston's encounter with the Central Intelligence Agency in 1996; Comments of friends and neighbors on Weston's mental instability; Weston's experience with guns; Description of the shooting that resulted in two police deaths; Role of Senator Bill Frist of Tennessee, a former truama surgeon. INSET: Shoot-out in the capitol.

Informs of unique destinations for vacations. Thayer Lake Lodge on Admiralty Island, Alaska; Isle Royale in Lake Superior; Nada Monastery in Crestone, Colorado; Moyo Island, Indonesia; Kripalu Center in Lenox, Massachusetts; Ariau Jungle Tower Hotel in the Amazon, Brazil; Tswalu Private Reserve in the Kalahari Desert, South Africa.

Discusses the strike of United Parcel Service (UPS) of America Inc. workers as of August 25, 1997. The estimated percent that UPS touches of the country's gross national product; Reasons behind the strike; The request by the US Federal Reserve Board for UPS's analysis of the strike's economic impact; Results from a poll by Gallup/CNN regarding the percentage of those surveyed that support the International Brotherhood of Teamsters union.

Focuses on affirmative action in Chicago and analyzes how racial preferences really work--or don't work--in four areas. The increase in minorities in the police department; The slide in black applicants at Northwestern University; How minority businessmen need white escorts to get in the contracting door; Allstate Insurance's self-imposed diversity program.

Comments on Michael Jordan's announcement that he is retiring from baseball, and speculates on whether he will return to basketball 18 months after walking away from the game. His three days working out with the Chicago Bulls last week; His meeting with a Bulls official to discuss a possible return; Bulls owner Jerry Reinsdorf.

Discusses whether the United States should be more like Singapore, where Michael Fay, 18, awaits a sentence of caning that has provoked hot debate in the US. `Newsweek' poll results; Strong support for the caning; Why the US has not championed Michael; Other countries with corporal punishment on their books. INSETS: American punishment (history of punishment in the United...;Tough town (discipline in Singapore), by Steven Strasser..

Argues against the new gospel that an open global economy is bad for the United States. `Newsweek' poll showing a majority believe that imports are at least partly responsible for slow economic growth in the US; How trade benefits; How the US will have a trade surplus when overseas growth speeds up; How the economic change that wipes out old jobs is creating millions of new ones; More. INSET: Trade brings no joy to Pleasanton, by Katherine Newman..

Rule No. 1 in grizzly country is never get between a. bear and his dinner. But that's become increasingly difficult in the tiny fishing village of Rivers Inlet, British Columbia. […]

Fishermen call it the 'dead zone'--a barren patch in the Gulf of Mexico where their nets come up empty and their lines never record a strike. It moves around, waxes [...]

The Boise National Forest is a majestic chunk of American back country. Its rolling mountains are home to elk, mule deer and wolves. Pristine trout streams tumble through deep ravines [...]

Minnesota's thriving predators are caught in the crosshairs again. Roger Hanson talks about the attack as if it happened yesterday. One morning last August, the northern Minnesota turkey farmer says, […]

As recently as 1993, when residents of little Minnewaukan, N.D., went fishing for walleye, they drove past farms and range land to the shores of Devils Lake, eight miles away. [...]

The article discusses how the confirmation process, Judge Brett Kavanaugh to become an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, was accused of sexually assaulting Christine Blasey Ford, currently a professor in clinical psychology at Palo Alto University, while they were both in high school. It reports that in In 1991, President George H. W. Bush nominated Clarence Thomas, a federal Circuit Judge, who was alleged by Anita Hill, an American attorney and academic, of sexual assault.

Recounts last week's attempt to repair the Hubble Space Telescope by astronauts on the space shuttle Endeavor. The insertion of COSTAR, a 640-pound box designed to compensate for the telescope's flawed mirror; The FBI investigation of Johnson Space Center; Details.

Examines how severe traumas destroy `the internal landmarks' in children and looks at how the 21 surviving children of the Branch Davidian cult may recover. Not only orphaned but emptied of moral certitude; Comment by psychiatrist Bruce Perry; PTSD (Post-traumatic Stress Disorder); The lingering secretiveness of the children; Need for care, patience, love and time; More.

The phone call came early Wednesday morning, and by midafternoon the FBI's Las Vegas office was mobilized to the max. This case, it seemed, had everything--a suspect known for his [...]

The little girl in the well survived but her rescuers lost their way THE TREE THEY PLANTED BY THE well where she almost died a decade ago has long since [...]

After a brisk trial in the case of the deadliest act of domestic terrorism in U.S. history, the Oklahoma City bombing goes to the jury BURDENED BY THE MOUNTAIN OF [...]