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Reports on computer programs that tell people where to invest their money. List of investment bokerages that are developing these programs; What the programs tell their users; List of different computer investment programs; 401(K) Forum; Rational Investors; Financial Engines; State Street Global Advisors; Ibbotson Associates; Vanguard; Fidelity.

Reports that the US Justice Department is seeking ways to placate Chicago Mayor Richard Daley. His anger over federal efforts to persecute drug cases; His desire for US Attorney General Janet Reno to set up a nationwide task force.

Presents the debate over the role of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), in light of the economic crisis in Asia, as of February 2, 1998. Increased awareness of the IMF in the United States; US financial support for the IMF; Details about various views on the IMF; Concern that the IMF's measures for faltering economies are too strict; IMF's original role and brief history; Lending a moral hazard; Case of Mexican peso crisis.

Looks at how several members of President Bill Clinton's advisory council on HIV/AIDS are upset over Clinton's failure to speak out against a bill tightening a ban on federally funded needle-exchange programs. The attachment of a ban to the appropriations bill for the Department of Health and Human Services; The possibility that the ban will be lifted since the completion of a study that looked at whether needle exchanges lowered HIV infections and not increase drug use.

Presents news briefs related to Washington, D.C. Issue of municipal bonds to help finance the William Jefferson Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock, Arkansas; Visit of Israel minister of internal security, Avigdor Kahalani to the United States-Mexican border; Efforts of the Christian Coalition to mobilize voters to back the proposed Religious Freedom Amendment; Others.

Presents news briefs concerning United States politics and government for May 25, 1998. The response of President Clinton to India's test detonation of several nuclear devices; The use of Microsoft Windows 95 by the US Department of Justice, who is investigating Microsoft for antitrust activities; Claims from Mark Geragos, the attorney for Susan McDougal, that he has evidence of payoffs in the alleged right wing conspiracy to take down the president; Other news.

Reports on the plans of a group of liver transplant patients and their families to send 1,000 flowers to US Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala as a protest. Their ire over Shalala's lack of action on proposed reforms about how donated livers are distributed.

Focuses on circumstances surrounding a comment made by British Foreign Minister Robin Cook in relation to Saddam Hussein adding enough anthrax to his stocks in order to fill two warheads of missiles. The fear that Cook may have garbled a report that UNSCOM, the inspection agency, gave the Security Council in November 1997; The belief that Cook's statement may be a case of selective memory.

Notes that those who took unpaid 1995 White House internships are besieged with attention as a result of the sex scandal involving President Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky. Comments from some interns.

Reports the criticism surrounding the US Defense Department's role in domestic disaster training from civilian agencies. The conflict over lines of authority between officials of the Defense and local authorities; The investigation into coordination of the training.