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Byline: Jerry Adler Stephen Hawking, the legendary physicist, cosmologist and world-famous author, died on Wednesday at the age of 76. Here's our 1988 cover story on Hawking, published around the [...]

Sigmund Freud, the theoretician who explored a vast new realm of the mind, the unconscious, was driven by the Nazis from his beloved Vienna, and died in London in 1939, but he still haunts us. Freud was a philosopher who identified childhood experience, not racial destiny or family fate, as the determinant of character, and was a therapist who invented a specific form of treatment called psychoanalysis, involving recollection and reflection to a sympathetic professional.

Arnold Schwarzenegger is considered a good candidate to be the next Governor of California. However, Arnold has not made up his mind regarding the elections as he is awaiting the release of his film 'Terminator 3'.

This article describes the devastation caused by the earthquake in Turkey in August 1999. Relevant points include the efforts of rescuers to dig out survivors and the bodies of victims, the role of shoddy construction in exacerbating the death toll, and the geological forces that bring about earthquakes in Turkey and around the world.

Science has proven that psychological stress has deleterious physical consequences on the cardiovascular system, immune system, and other bodily systems. It affects men, women and children differently. Childhood stress is increasing. Meditation, massage, exercise and social relations can help manage stress. Stress is part of the evolutionary inheritance rooted in the fight-or-flight response.

The year 1998 is reviewed with an emphasis on the entertainment industry and celebrities, though politics are also represented. The focus is humorous, with stories such as the Norweigian college student who was barred from classes because he smelt bad.

When death can to one of the century's great villains, the world mourned only that he won't be tried for his crimes He kept a clear conscience up until the [...]

It's an exploding market: millions of families are worried about the quality of their local schools. And a new breed of tutors is offering its services -- at home, in [...]

As a teenager, his biographers tell us, Henry Ford loved to fix pocket watches. He would open up the backs and poke around inside that marvelous universe of balance wheels, [...]

Driving home from Thanksgiving dinner in New London, Conn., to Spencertown, N.Y., the Kirsch family talked about the tree. They've had one every Christmas since Claudia Ricci and Richard Kirsch [...]

One baby at a time is child's play. Raising multiples takes a village--and then some. MANY PARENTS, LIKE THE MCCAUGHEYS, regard their children as gifts from God, which is very [...]

Dealing with death: Let children grieve, the experts say. Don't shield them from loss, but help them express their fear and anger. BY JERRY ADLER HE PAIN NEVER GOES AWAY,' [...]

Like Charles, the princes have a sense of duty and a keen interest in the outdoors. Like Diana, they are sensitive and sunny. Will both sides survive? SHE HAD TRIED, [...]

Long famous for mean streets and even meaner people, New York City is spiting itself up-- and finally rejoining the rest of the country TOUGH TOWN, NEW YORK. BEFORE leaving [...]

There is a myth a lot of people still have about fans of stock-car racing, that if they didn't have a race to go to, they would be just as [...]

In orbit, three men--two Russians, one American--struggle to survive a terrifying mishap. Inside the debacle. BY BILL POWELL AND JERRY ADLER THE THREE MEN FELT THE crash the instant it [...]

The last monster of the 20th century, Pol Pot tried to remake Cambodia by destroying it. His legacy is the death of more than 1 million people. Now can his [...]

They would just disappear. What made these ordinary people turn a search for solace into a suicide mission? HE HAD, ACCORDING TO EVERYone who knew him, a beautiful voice, and [...]

Try to escape fun, and it will seek you out at your hotel or restaurant, where food will mingle with rock climbing and giant-screen TV IT IS THE PROMISE OF [...]

She spent her short life in the spangled universe of children's pageants, a glitzy culture that's bigger than you might think. IN PHOTOGRAPHS, HER CHARACTERISTIC expression is a fixed smile [...]

IT WAS A FAMILIAR WASHington story, of a powerful man brought down by a woman. But although human nature doesn't change very quickly, even in Washington, society does, sometimes in [...]

IT WAS AN ORDINARY GREEN KNAPSACK, LYING ON the ground at a rock concert. At almost any other time or place in America, anyone who saw it would probably think: [...]

HOW DO WE ASSESS A MAN'S LIFE? THE LATE William S. Paley, founder and longtime chairman of CBS, devoted his life to the pursuit of wealth, power, fame and worldly [...]

The trails of Mount Everest were jammed last week with climbers--and dead bodies. Are too many adventures going where they don't belong? IT IS AN AREA ABOUT THE SIZE OF [...]

WARD DUFT MOVED TO SEATTLE IN THE SPRING OF 1991 AND HE liked it right away, even though it was all a mistake. He arrived at the wheel of a [...]

THEY ARE ON THEIR WAY NOW, CRATED AND NEStled in bubble wrap or tucked in Louis Vuitton carry-ons, carrying their little spark of cachet to Grosse Pointe, River Oaks, Malibu [...]

This is how Yasir Arafat deals with terrorism: careering through the muddy, storm-soaked streets of Gaza one evening last week, the crack troops of the Palestinian Preventive Security forces roared [...]

LET US PAUSE now, briefly, to recall the Wedding of the Century: the hushed magnificence of St. Paul's on that perfect summer's day, the solemn medal-strewn groom and his radiant [...]

This being the holly land, it was probably inevitable that the assassin would claim to be acting in the name of God. American assassins -- to take a more familiar [...]

WHO IS SELENA? FOR SEVERAL days last spring, that question was on everyone's lips, as America struggled to come to terms with the tragic loss of a celebrity it didn't [...]

YOU'VE PROBABLY NEVER HEARD OF THE overclass, which is just how its members like it; they have a lot to answer for. They are the people who put Jim Carrey [...]

LIKE MILLIONS OF MEXican-American teenage girls, I still remember where I was when I learned that Selena had been shot. I was on my way to work, and I saw [...]

Most of us actually know what we want in a neighborhood - we just don't know how to get it, because developers have been building the wrong thing for 50 [...]

Viewed from the air, there's no apparent reason why a city like Phoenix, Ariz., already the seventh largest in the nation, couldn't keep growing forever. Four times a year, a [...]

WHEN SAM ALBERT WENT to work for IBM in 1959, he assumed he'd be wearing a suit for the rest of his life. In fact, the same suit (single-breasted dark [...]

ON THE AFTERNOON OF Jan. 27, 1945, Sal De Liema, a 30-year-old Dutch Jew, five months resident in Auschwitz, ventured into the snow outside his barracks door for the first [...]

George Mallory, the first person to attempt the summit of Mount Averest, fell to his death in June 1924. His body was discovered, which revealed that he must have fallen on his way back, but the question remains whether he completed the summit. To find bodies of Mallory and Andrew Irvine's and answer this question, a team of 5 American mountaineers were assembled.

Volcanoes threaten nearly a tenth of the world's population--but not L.A. IT'S A QUESTION ONLY HOLLYWOOD-- which can make up any answer it pleases--would dare ask: why are there no [...]

Three out of 100 newborns suffer birth defects. But more and more of them can now hope to lead normal lives. 'THERE IS A PROBLEM,' THE doctors say. But even [...]

Charles Feeney built a great fortune in duty-free shops, then donated nearly all of it to charity. He managed to keep it a secret--until last week. DOES CHUCK FEENEY EVER [...]

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 New Urbanism is transforming public housing. Blocks of giant high-rises are coming down, replaced by home-sweet-home town houses. IMAGINE LEVELING WHOLE BLOCKS of decaying, crime-ridden slums in one great [...]

BY THE MILLIONS THEY HAVE DEscended on the malls and multiplexes of America, women who paid their dues, women who have been down hard roads and encountered life at its [...]

Acquitted of a heinous crime, he may still have to prove his innocence in civil court, and he confronts the possibility of a custody fight for his children. But remember, [...]

FOR A GENERATION, THE BLOCK OF 42D STREET JUST west of Times Square has been one of New York's great civic embarrassments, a sinkhole of iniquity that couldn't even trap [...]

It was almost impossible not to be moved by the testimony in Judge Donald Belfi's courtroom last week, but Colin Ferguson, whose main accomplishment in life has been to show [...]

Byline: Jerry Adler If you have a Chinese friend, you might have trouble explaining to him exactly why Americans found Dan Savage's definition of 'Santorum' so funny. You can convey [...]

Byline: Jerry Adler There is no particular reason why the National Museum of American Jewish History should be located in Philadelphia, rather than, say, Brooklyn, except that it happened to [...]