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The article focuses on the precarious situation in the West Bank, illustrating how mounting pressure increases the risk of explosive conflict.

The article profiles Israeli foreign minister Tzipi Livni. The author presents an overview of Livni's career in Israeli politics, chronicling her parents political involvement in Zionist causes, her political mentor, former Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon, her involvement with the centrist Kadima Party, her criticism of Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert, her views on Palestinians in the West Bank, and her aspirations to become prime minister.

Focuses on the love of Marlene Dietrich for German food in her later years. Her relationship with chef Markus Auer in Paris, France; Publication of the cookbook 'I Want the Finest: The Marlene Dietrich Cookbook,' by Georg A. Weth; Details of Dietrich's life as a recluse in her old age.

Reports on how Otpor, a grassroots movement of Serbian youth, helped bring Yugoslavian President Slobodan Milosevic's rule to an end. Ability of the student activists to undermine the dictator and his henchmen with a campaign of nonviolence; Details of the movement; Otpor's founding principles; How the United States assisted Otpor; The battle of the Popovic brothers on opposing sides of the fight; Serbia's future.

Profiles Austrian political leader Jorg Haider. Increase in the popularity of the Freedom Party; His views on Europe, the future, and politics in Austria; Biographical information including how he came from an Austrian Nazi family; Questions concerning his Nazi and racist leanings; Appeal of Haider to the young and disenchanted.

Describes the city of Berlin in Germany. Disorienting converging of history and the present; Fast pace of change; Historical landmarks and monuments; Altes Museum in Museum Island; Reopened Reichstag; Mitte district; Gendarmenmarkt square; Discreet reminders of Adolf Hitler's rule; Restaurants and various ethnic cuisines; Edginess of Berlin. INSET: Wurst and beyond..

Examines the life of former Polish Solidarity movement strategist Adam Michnik since the end of Communism in Europe. His transition from resistance to responsibility; Activities in business and journalism; How the absence of Communism has affected the economy of Poland; Accounts of serving jail sentences.

Profiles Murphy Popoola, a Nigerian immigrant to the United States, and his reasons for emigrating. Statistics of immigration in the US; His search for opportunity and financial stability in the US; Comments of his wife, Tola, and his daughter Funke about his absence from Nigeria; Political and economic turmoil in Nigeria; His plans for establishing a store in Houston, Texas.

Presents information on Verbier a ski resort in switzerland. Comments from Philippe Roux, a former downhill champion; Services provided by the resort; Description of the resort.

Focuses on tourist attractions from around the world. The Mao Zedong Mausoleu in Beijing, China; The Maceo restaurant in Paris, France; The Foro Stanistablas theater in Mexico City, Mexico; The Tantra Restaurant and Lounge in Miami Florida; P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center in New York City, New York; The Palazzo Altemps museum in Rome, Italy.

Profiles politician Richard Holbrooke. Holbrooke's participation in Bosnian peace; Background information; Professional career; Comments by Holbrooke.

Examines the effects of the Bosnian conflict to the Zecevics family. Separations; Culture shock of survivors upon migration to the United States; Impact of deaths in the family; Befuddlement on location of bodies; Aim for a new start at life.

Profiles director Agnieszka Holland. Motion picture `The Secret Garden' as first movie made for a major studio with broad American public in mind; Struggle with split cultural heritage; Success of previous movies; Biographical information; Inability to work in Poland due to Jewish ancestry; Imprisonment in Prague, Czech Republic; Exile in France during Polish martial law; More.

Presents a collection of photographs by Paul Lowe of homes and buildings which were destroyed by soldiers in Yugoslavia during the war in Bosnia in the 1990s. How the photographs serve as a visual metaphor of the actions and attitudes of the former president of Yugoslavia, Slobodan Milosevic; Reasons he is being tried in The Hague, Netherlands; Brutality of Serbians against Muslims in the Drina River Valley.

Focuses on a Nazi concentration camp in Berga, Germany, where 350 Jewish American soldiers were imprisoned. William J. Shapiro's experiences in the camp as a young soldier, where morals slipped away as each man fought to survive; Secrecy surrounding the existence of the Berga Elster concentration camp; Discouragement from talking about the Berga camp by the U.S., making U.S. soldiers liberated from the camp sign an oath not to talk about the camp; How the story of Berga eventually came to light.