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Yale and Washington University in St. Louis don't have a whole lot in common-that is, until you look at their ledgers, Last year, both universities laid plans to lop off [...]

Presents the `U.S. News & World Report' 1993 salary survey, which looks at what 20 jobs pay, on average, at the entry, senior and manager levels in five regions of the country. Profile of `hot tracks' in 20 professions; Considering outplacement; Training requirements; Suggestions about the best places to start job hunting.

Presents a viewer's guide to the 1992 Olympic summer games in Barcelona, Spain. Coverage; Viewing times; Predictions of past Olympic gold winners as to who will come out winners this year; Schedule for gymnastics; Swimming; Track and field; Diving; Canoeing and kayaking; Volleyball; Equestrian; Boxing; Weight lifting; Wrestling. INSET: If you've got the time... (the joint venture between NBC and....

Focuses on problems involving the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA). How agency is riven by mismanagement, low morale and a disregard for criticism; Lax accounting procedures that almost invite crime; Remarkably little agency money that finds its way to the people who need it; Squalid schools, lack of social programs and more that plague reservations; Attempts to tighten control at the BIA.

Discusses how a growing number of doctors and bioethicists are challenging the attitudes that suicide is an act of logic and that euthanasia is a civil right. Case of Dr. Jack Kevorkian; Medical and social service breakthroughs that can take the pain and financial ruin out of most deaths; Dangers in physician-assisted suicide; Fear that right to die can easily become a duty to die for the elderly, sick, and poor; Profile of Donna White who contemplated suicide.

Discusses how the best athletes are relying on the new science of stress control to help them stand up against the psychological pressures of competition. Mental resilience that varies from individual to individual; Increasing use of sports psychology; Strategies used by sports psychologists; Comments by several sports psychologists. INSETS: Heroes and heartaches, by Frank Deford, Christine Brennan et al.;Coaching coaches to inspire, by Shannon Brownlee..

Discusses 37-year-old entrepreneur Bill Gates's creation of the computer company, Microsoft, into the most successful enterprise of the information era. Gates is the country's richest man, with wealth estimated at $6.3 billion; Comparison to oil baron John D. Rockefeller; Why Washington may short-circuit his success; Why Microsoft has soared; Microsoft's competitors; Background on the computer products; His fierce management style.

Considers how campaign finance laws in America are filled with loopholes. Ways that various candidates are making use of these loopholes; New York publishing heir Dirk Ziff's contributions to the Democratic National Committee; Soft money, one way to bypass campaign finance law; Issue ads paid for by interest groups; Ability of issue campaigns to camouflage their real backers.

Contemplates the ideological differences in the Republican Party in the United States in 1996. Opposing views about balancing the budget and other issues; Senator Bob Dole caught in the middle; How President Clinton is taking advantage of the Republican disarray; Why Republicans are losing so many political battles; The ambivalence of voters; The stalling of the Republican revolution. INSET: The GOP's abortion battle, by David Bowermaster.

Reveals the problems facing Bill and Hillary Clinton at the start of 1996. The character issue for the President with a sexual harassment lawsuit filed against him set for trial; Three potential problem areas for First Lady Hillary in her work related to Castle Grande, her billing records and the Whitewater investment; Poll of registered voters on the President's job rating and who's ahead in the campaign.

Focuses on the partial United States government shutdown that began December 16, 1995. Congressional vote to send furloughed government employees back to work; Dubious effects of the shutdown; Possibility that another shutdown could occur if Congress and President Bill Clinton do not reach a budget deal; Innocent victims of the furlough.

Looks at the battle facing Washington's conservatives over Medicare and other issues in October 1995. The fight in the House of Representatives which offers a glimpse of upcoming disputes which pit Republicans led by Newt Gingrich and Bob Dole against President Bill Clinton and the Democrats; Protests of senior citizens, which did not stop the Gingrich forces; The Contract with America.

Discusses how Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), the giant grain processor, has found a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) undercover agent among its top executives. Reports that Mark Whitacre, who heads the company's BioProducts Division, secretly taped hundreds of conversations that are being used in an investigation of alleged antitrust violations by ADM. Connections of ADM chief Dwayne Andreas in Washington; The risk ADM faces.

Considers how the new Republican majority will find that taming health care costs could be difficult. Shrinking federal budget deficit; Impossibility of balancing the budget entirely through spending cuts in nonentitlement programs; Increase in entitlement spending; Paying for Newt Gingrich's `Contract With America'; Challenges facing GOP on healthcare issues.

Focuses on figure skate Tonya Harding, whose life appears to be unraveling both on the ice and off. Implication by her ex-husband, Jeff Gillooly in the bizarre plot to disable rival Nancy Kerrigan; Question of whether Harding should represent the United States at the Winter Olympic Games; Decision which will be made by the US Olympic Committee. INSET: Anatomy of an assault..

Reports that official investigations of the 1992 Los Angeles riot have virtually ignored liquor's role in fostering crime and neighborhood discord in South Central L.A. and in helping to ignite the orgy of looting and violence. How liquor store is a fixture of the modern ghetto; Costs of alcohol abuse; Omnipresent role of liquor in the riot.