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Mugged by a serpent?

J.A. Getzlaff
Thieves in New Delhi, India, use snakes to hold up victims.

Finale answers

Joyce Millman
Surveying the season-ending episodes that made the grade (and the ones that flunked out).

Yo! I ride through the valley in the shadow of death

David Darlington
A quartet of intrepid mountain bikers tackles the far, unfriendly reaches of Death Valley National Park -- and learns some lessons about life.

Censorama! A gambling resort for persecuted writers

Cintra Wilson
Move over Siegfried & Roy, here comes Salman Rushdie. Now more than ever, Las Vegas is for smart people too.

They trade horses, don’t they?

Joan Walsh
A lawsuit to block the Hearst Corp.'s takeover of the San Francisco Chronicle exposes a world of political treachery that reached from City Hall to the U.S. Justice Department.

Death of music retail — or a reincarnation?

Letters to the Editor
"Looks to me like the record companies are making out like bandits"

“Better Living Through Circuitry”

Jeff Stark
In this floor-level view of the rave scene, director Jon Reiss keeps it pumping, humming, buzzing and spinning.

I am somebody!

Christopher Shea
Do blacks really need to work on their self-esteem? An African-American psychologist says no.

Jeff Buckley: a cult in the making?

Steve Kurutz
He was an ethereal, darkly handsome singer-songwriter who died young. And that's how legends begin.

Pam Gravy’s dancing panda

David Goodman
Real, screw-with-your-head magic in Vegas, and Trey Parker is Neil Diamond.

Campaign jobs: adults only

Anthony York
Sen. Dianne Feinstein's independent-minded opponent finally gets serious -- and his youthful staff gets some high-powered additions.

The real Sylvia Plath

Kate Moses
Her newly published, unexpurgated journals support a little-known theory that PMS drove her to suicide. Second of two parts.

Silverstone spills all

Amy Reiter
Alicia on proper pooping, mother's milk and things of that ilk; Did Prince William nick the bubbly? Plus: Quentin Tarantino's seedy love!

Gene therapy R.I.P.?

Tabitha M. Powledge
When the country's biggest gene therapy institute was ordered to stop testing on humans last week, the action marked the end of an era fraught with dubious claims to success and a mess of unreported adverse effects.

Parents vs. teachers — it’s war

Letters to the Editor
"You, despite your advanced degree and six-figure salary, are not a teacher."

For Bush, fundraiser is a gamble

Jake Tapper
Despite his "strong anti-gambling record," he prepares for a major gift from serious high-rollers -- and criticism from the party's right wing.

Bush stalls death machine

Alicia Montgomery
Texas governor grants his first reprieve as presidential poll numbers tighten. Gore grilled on fat cat's contract, and Democrats loudly grieve Tito Puente.

One is the loneliest number

Garrison Keillor
My husband locks himself in the spare room and masturbates five or six times a day to videotapes and sex magazines.

Geek sex — get over it!

Letters to the Editor
"An occasional orgy is no substitute for the real thing."

Kids as guinea pigs

Dawn MacKeen
The death of a 9-month-old boy rekindles an agonizing debate: Should powerful drugs be tested on children?

Bush may stall Texas execution

Alicia Montgomery
The Republican hopeful bags military brass briefing and rises in Western polls. Gore divides environmentalists as Nader gains ground among greens.

The boob tube

Sharon Goldman Edry
MTV used to show music videos: Now it offers kids an almost constant stream of torrid teens, hot sex and whipped-cream bikinis.

Bush blasts Gore on military

Alicia Montgomery
Gore gets green thumbs up as Ventura threatens to jump in the presidential ring. Lazio, New York's Republican golden boy, stumbles but gets the party nod.

The charter school challenge

Jonathan Schorr
Notes from two pioneering California charter schools -- one a success story, the other a failure.
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