What the Plows Missed
Closed mid-February 1996 · On stands late February 1996
The Front
Index of the Storm
Inches recorded, school days lost, the price of a shovel on the second morning
The Paper Learns to Type Itself
nytimes.com launches on the Web, folded here into a longer meditation on electronic publishing
The Forty-Million-Dollar Minute
What sponsors paid for thirty seconds during Super Bowl XXX, and what that number says about a country spending its way out of a recession memory
The Essay
The Future of Print Itself
What survives of the reading habit as publishing migrates onto screens
The Foreign File
Sarajevo's First Quiet Winter
A stringer's dispatch from a city testing whether the Dayton peace will hold through a second postwar winter
The City
Subject: The blizzard of 1996 and which streets got cleared first
The Back
A Room Made to Empty Itself
Remembering the artist Felix Gonzalez-Torres, dead this winter at thirty-eight
The Soundtrack Outsells the Movie
A note on Waiting to Exhale's platinum soundtrack, and the year film studios started treating the album as the real release