The Drive, Underwater
Closed mid-October 1999 · On stands late October 1999
The Front
Two Programs, One Future
QuarkXPress holds its near-monopoly on magazine layout as Adobe's coming InDesign challenge is discussed on the production floor for the first time
Index of the Season's Turn
Numbers of early autumn — Beanie Baby resale prices still holding above retail nationwide, the closing tick on the season's hottest tech IPO, scalper premiums on the Broadway revival of Kiss Me, Kate, and the harvest yield on this year's corn crop
The Essay
The First Approved Word
Sertraline became, this year, the first FDA-approved drug for post-traumatic stress disorder
The Foreign File
The Long Way Round
A dispatch on a European capital's transit strike, filed by the magazine's rotating correspondent, arriving a week after the strike's own resolution
The Feature Well
The Understudy
A profile of a veteran actor with a national touring musical company, based out of a regional theater circuit through the Midwest and South, who has gone on for the lead in six cities this season to sold-out houses, scalper markups, and a small cult following that trades bootleg tapes of her performances — recognized everywhere on stage, nowhere off it
The City
The Drive, Underwater
Hurricane Floyd flooded the FDR Drive and closed city schools on September 16th
Kendra's Law
Kendra's Law was signed on August 27th, after Kendra Webdale's death, establishing court-ordered outpatient treatment for the severely mentally ill
The Back
Forty Names
A photography review of John Harris's Still Passing By, documenting forty cyclist deaths in city traffic this year
The West Wing
NBC's The West Wing premiered September 22nd
The Names You Don't Know Yet
A dispatch on Silicon Alley's autumn IPO season — twenty-six-year-olds newly worth eight figures on paper, the etiquette of turning down free equity at a friend's company, and a magazine industry realizing, a full year after everyone else, that it now competes with a browser for advertising