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• Why Are India and Pakistan Fighting? 
  Matt Alsdorf Dec. 30, 1999
  
• What's the Legal Status of Gay Marriage? 
  Matt Alsdorf Dec. 23, 1999
  
• Why Wonderful Life Comes but Once a Year 
  Matt Alsdorf Dec. 22, 1999
  
• "Samaranch": Explainer Corrects Himself 
  Matt Alsdorf Dec. 20, 1999
  
• How Do You Say "Samaranch"? 
  Matt Alsdorf Dec. 17, 1999
  
• No Relation No. 7 
  Matt Alsdorf Dec. 17, 1999
  
• Who Killed Martin Luther King? 
  Matt Alsdorf Dec. 15, 1999
  
• Are Bush and McCain Really Neck and Neck? 
  Matt Alsdorf Dec. 10, 1999
  
• Why Doesn't the IRS Take Visa? 
  Matt Alsdorf Dec. 10, 1999
  
• Who Gets To Unionize? 
  Matt Alsdorf Dec. 8, 1999
  
• Is Seattle's Curfew Legal? 
  Matt Alsdorf Dec. 2, 1999
  
• No Relation No. 6: Moore Than Meets the Eye 
  Matt Alsdorf Dec. 2, 1999
  
• What Is Source Code? 
  Matt Alsdorf Nov. 30, 1999
  
• Why Gore Paid His Accountants $4 Million 
  Matt Alsdorf Nov. 25, 1999
  
• What Do Autopilots Do? 
  Matt Alsdorf Nov. 23, 1999
  
• How Will the Budget Cuts Work? 
  Matt Alsdorf Nov. 19, 1999
  
• $100 Million for a Bride? 
  Matt Alsdorf Nov. 19, 1999
  
• What Is After-Hours Trading? 
  Matt Alsdorf Nov. 12, 1999
  
• What Is a Hostile Takeover? 
  Matt Alsdorf Nov. 11, 1999
  
• How To Tell Armenia From Azerbaijan 
  Matt Alsdorf Nov. 9, 1999
  
• Making Money at the U.S. Mint 
  Matt Alsdorf Nov. 5, 1999
  
• Is The New New Thing Copyrighted? 
  Matt Alsdorf Nov. 2, 1999
  
• Will New Stocks Increase the Dow? 
  Matt Alsdorf Oct. 27, 1999
  
• Do Cellular Phones Cause Brain Cancer? 
  Matt Alsdorf Oct. 27, 1999
  
• How Do You Say "Chechnya"? 
  Eve Gerber Oct. 27, 1999
  
• Who Gets Liddy Dole's Money? 
  Matt Alsdorf Oct. 22, 1999
  
• Does the Dow Always Dip in October? 
  Matt Alsdorf Oct. 22, 1999
  
• Who Runs Antarctica? 
  Matt Alsdorf Oct. 21, 1999
  
• What Is Moore's Law? 
  Matt Alsdorf Oct. 14, 1999
  
• Do Statutes of Limitations Apply to DNA Cases? 
  Matt Alsdorf Oct. 12, 1999
  
• A Budget Briefing 
  Matt Alsdorf Oct. 9, 1999
  
• Why Hasn't the U.S. Gone Metric? 
  Matt Alsdorf Oct. 6, 1999
  
• What Is Gene Therapy? 
  Matt Alsdorf Oct. 2, 1999
  
• Can You Kill Someone Twice? 
  Matt Alsdorf Sept. 29, 1999
  
• How Does the Reform Party Choose Its Candidate? 
  Matt Alsdorf Sept. 28, 1999
  
• Did Taiwan Shake All Day? 
  Matt Alsdorf Sept. 24, 1999
  
• What Is the LAPD Scandal? 
  Matt Alsdorf Sept. 23, 1999
  
• What Is Entrapment? 
  Matt Alsdorf Sept. 21, 1999
  
• What is Puerto Rico? 
  Matt Alsdorf Sept. 17, 1999
  
• A Timor Primer 
  Matt Alsdorf Sept. 15, 1999
  
• Which Creation Theory? 
  Matt Alsdorf Sept. 10, 1999
  
• What Is Money Laundering? 
  Matt Alsdorf Sept. 10, 1999
  
• Explaining Today's Papers 
  Matt Alsdorf Sept. 8, 1999
  
• Waco Twofer: Pyrotechnic Tear Gas and Delta Force 
  Matt Alsdorf Sept. 2, 1999
  
• Has the Chinese Spy Story Fizzled? 
  Matt Alsdorf Aug. 31, 1999
  
• Are Dead Bodies Dangerous? 
  David Plotz Aug. 23, 1999
  
• Where Were Eichmann’s Memoirs for 37 Years? 
  Bruce Gottlieb Aug. 18, 1999
  
• What Is a "Hate Crime"? 
  Eve Gerber Aug. 13, 1999
  
• Can James Carville Be Sued for $100,000? 
  Eve Gerber Aug. 11, 1999
  
• Can Ice Cubes Cool Your Pool? 
  Tad Fallows Aug. 10, 1999
  
• How Strong Is the Case Against Linda Tripp? 
  Michael Brus Aug. 6, 1999
  
• Can a New Magazine Survive? 
  Aug. 4, 1999
  
• A Tax Break for Warren Buffett? 
  Maura Kelly Aug. 2, 1999
  
• A Non-Profit IPO? 
  Matt Alsdorf Aug. 2, 1999
  
• In the Event of a Water Landing 
  Michael Brus July 23, 1999
  
• What Did Martin Frankel Do? 
  Matt Alsdorf July 21, 1999
  
• Who Is Arthur Schnitzler? 
  July 20, 1999
  
• How To Quit the Republican Party 
  Jodi Kantor July 20, 1999
  
• The FBI's Top 10 List 
  Eve Gerber July 16, 1999
  
• George W.'s Racial Covenant 
  Eve Gerber July 14, 1999
  
• Copyrights for Dead People? 
  Maura Kelly July 12, 1999
  
• Who Should Pay for Hillary's New York Trips? 
  Eve Gerber July 2, 1999
  
• What's a Caucus? 
  Michael Brus June 29, 1999
  
• No Relation No. 5 
  Michael Brus June 24, 1999
  
• What's in a Flag? 
  Michael Brus June 18, 1999
  
• What Is a Recess Appointment? 
  Michael Brus June 14, 1999
  
• What Can't a Beauty Queen Do? 
  Bruce Gottlieb May 27, 1999
  
• Audio/Video on the Internet 
  Bruce Gottlieb May 18, 1999
  
• Why Don't Buses Have Seat Belts? 
  Bruce Gottlieb May 11, 1999
  
• What Is a Dutch Auction IPO? 
  Bruce Gottlieb May 6, 1999
  
• How Does Jesse Jackson Do It? 
  Jodi Kantor May 5, 1999
  
• A Bomb That Drops Spools of Wire? 
  Bruce Gottlieb May 3, 1999
  
• How Many High Schools Have Armed Guards? 
  Bruce Gottlieb April 28, 1999
  
• Is Signing Caskets a New Mourning Ritual? 
  Jodi Kantor April 26, 1999
  
• Who Is the Kosovo Liberation Army? 
  Eve Gerber April 23, 1999
  
• Can Air Power Alone Win a War? 
  Bruce Gottlieb April 14, 1999
  
• A Balkans Glossary 
  Bruce Gottlieb April 7, 1999
  
• How Do You Pronounce "Kosovo"? 
  Eve Gerber April 2, 1999
  
• Why Do Japanese Commit Hara-Kiri? 
  Bruce Gottlieb March 25, 1999
  
• Can Terry Anderson Make Iran Pay? 
  Bruce Gottlieb March 24, 1999
  
• What Are Exploratory Committees? 
  Bruce Gottlieb March 16, 1999
  
• No Relation No. 4: Bimbo Edition 
  Bruce Gottlieb March 13, 1999
  
• Explainer Repeats Himself 
  Bruce Gottlieb March 11, 1999
  
• Who Was Dr. Strangelove? 
  Bruce Gottlieb March 9, 1999
  
• Who Writes Unsigned Editorials? 
  Bruce Gottlieb March 8, 1999
  
• Is Juanita Broaddrick Telling the Truth? 
  Bruce Gottlieb March 3, 1999
  
• What are 'Autonomy' and 'Independence' in Kosovo? 
  Bruce Gottlieb March 1, 1999
  
• Can Ken tell Monica to Shut Up? 
  Jodi Kantor Feb. 25, 1999
  
• Can You Earn Dollars by Borrowing Yen? 
  Bruce Gottlieb Feb. 25, 1999
  
• Does Bill Clinton Run Murder Inc.? 
  Jodi Kantor Feb. 19, 1999
  
• Why Are Airline Pilots Sick So Often? 
  Bruce Gottlieb Feb. 18, 1999
  
• Why Can't American Airlines Pilots Go on Strike? 
  Bruce Gottlieb Feb. 18, 1999
  
• Can Hillary Be a New York Senator? 
  Bruce Gottlieb Feb. 13, 1999
  
• Was Jordan's King Hussein Really a King? 
  Bruce Gottlieb Feb. 11, 1999
  
• Has Monica Really Been Questioned 23 Times? 
  Bruce Gottlieb Feb. 9, 1999
  
• Does a settlement mean you're guilty? 
  Bruce Gottlieb Feb. 5, 1999
  
• What Are "High Crimes and Misdemeanors"? 
  Bruce Gottlieb Feb. 4, 1999
  
• Is the Senate Like a Jury? 
  Bruce Gottlieb Jan. 20, 1999
  
• Did America Break the Rules By Spying on Iraq? 
  Bruce Gottlieb Jan. 15, 1999
  
• How Can You Tell If Clinton Is Your Father? 
  Bruce Gottlieb Jan. 8, 1999