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	Fast Break to the Big Time More teenagers will be picked in the NBA draft this year than ever before. But is skipping college a smart move? Inside elite high-school basketball • FULL STORY

	Matthias Clamer for Newsweek

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• Move Aside, Easy Rider
The newest bikers wear lipstick with leather: it's a girl thing

• Sports: Rocket Redux
Batters beware: Roger Clemens is the best pitcher in baseball—again

• Clean Freaks
Americans have a dirty secret: our homes are a mess. Now a booming new industry is helping us dig out

• Dropping the H Bomb
After months of breathless anticipation, that school 'in Boston' finally has its own sex mag. Does anyone care?

• A Beltway Blogger's Sex Scandal

WEB EXCLUSIVE SOCIETY

POSTED TUESDAY, JUNE 22, 2004

• Humor: Michael Moore Wins Tour de France
Cyclist Lance Armstrong cries foul over the filmmaker’s untimely victory

POSTED TUESDAY, JUNE 8, 2004

• Humor: Iraqi Sovereignty Is Missing
'It was here a minute ago,' says Bremer

POSTED THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 2004

• Starr: A Tribute to a Soccer Legend
A tribute to a soccer legend—and a word on the NBA playoffs

POSTED WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2, 2004

• Varia: Inside Cardinal Law’s New Posting
Cardinal Law’s new posting may not be golden parachute his critics think it is

POSTED WEDNESDAY, MAY 26, 2004

• Patti Davis: I Won’t Live in Fear of Terror
Government officials are warning of fresh terror threats—then urging everyone to carry on as usual. But, argues our columnist, there is nothing normal about living in fear

POSTED FRIDAY, MAY 14, 2004

• Patti Davis: 'Fund Stem-Cell Research'
The battle over federal funding for stem-cell research should be a decisive debate in this year's election

POSTED WEDNESDAY, MAY 5, 2004

• The Woman Behind the Million Mom March
The woman behind the Million Mom March says it’s time for another Mother’s Day rally for gun-control

POSTED FRIDAY, APRIL 30, 2004

• Meet Pete, the Porno Puppet
A new public service announcement was filmed by the oddest of collaborators—two pastors and a pornographer

• Slated for California
'It's fun joining a hot book. I've never done that before'

POSTED SUNDAY, APRIL 25, 2004

• Online Excerpt: Being a Better Parent
From the new book, 'The 10 Basic Principles of Good Parenting,' by Laurence Steinberg

PAST SOCIETY COVERAGE

• Running On Dope
As a champion sprinter admits she used forbidden substances, a widening scandal threatens the U.S. Olympic track team

• More Kids Major in Going Slow
Why students all over the country are taking so long to graduate from college

• The High Cost of Summer Cash
Teenagers are twice as likely as adults to get hurt on the job

HIGHLIGHTS

Table of Contents

•	Dickey: Digging Through Dusty Saddam Files
•	Inside the Politics of the 9/11 Commission
•	Michael Moore Deconstructs 9/11
•	Fareed Zakaria: Is Saudi Arabia Doomed?

SPECIAL SECTION

• People poised to make a difference in the new year. Plus, updates from our nominees for 2003

PERSPECTIVES

""We will continue on this path in fighting the enemies of Allah."
—The Organization of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, in a statement on an Islamic Web site saying that American hostage Paul Johnson had been beheaded

SPECIAL SECTION: ISSUES 2004

Power: Who's Got It Now

•	America's Imperial Anemia
•	Iraq Effect: D.C. Upside Down
•	Nepotism: Another American Tradition
•	The Internet: A Net of Control?

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