Most teenagers, when they rebel, say they want more freedom. John Walker Lindh rebelled against freedom. He did not demand to express himself in different ways. Quite the opposite. He wanted to be told precisely how to dress, to eat, to think, to pray. He wanted a value system of absolutes, and he was willing to go to extreme lengths to find it. Lindh, who grew up surrounded by upper-middle-class affluence in California, was determined to fit in at the Islamic religious school, an austere one-story building in a tiny village outside the town of Bannu in the Northwest Frontier Province of Pakistan....

Director Christine Jeffs and writer John Brownlow keep an intimate focus on the couple’s relationship, which begins quite sexily at a Cambridge dance. The seductive Fulbright scholar and the heartthrob Hughes immediately strike sparks, and marriage and kids quickly follow. But the good times sour fast, as his career and womanizing soar, and her jealousy, paranoia and depression drag her down. After they separate–a period of rage-and-grief-driven creativity during which she carves out the famous “Ariel” poems–she spirals into suicidal madness....

This is not the smoothest trip: the transitions are bumpy, the lip-synching’s imperfect and the Malibu third act seems like another movie. But Anders’s rough edges are more than offset by the story’s contagious vitality. There’s great teamwork here–between Douglas and her vulgarian mentor Turturro; in the delightful scene when our heroine and her British collaborator (Patsy Kensit) write a coded love song for a lesbian pop star (Bridget Fonda); in the film’s rousing original soundtrack, which daringly pairs ’60s and ’90s talents (Burt Bacharach and Elvis Costello!...

Harriet Burke got the same good news last month, but her breast biopsy was a lunch-hour errand. Burke walked into a local clinic, chatted briefly with a specialist, then relaxed on the examining table while an automated needle deftly extracted tissue samples from the affected breast. “I don’t think I was in there 45 minutes total, " she says. “There was no pain at all, just a little zap. " The needle left a small bruise and a red mark, but both were gone within a week....

After someone named Terri Nelson noted the trend on Twitter, another person shared a link from Yankee Candle’s online shop for the Sparkling Cinnamon fragrance. The link was from a one-star review, where the purchaser, under the headline of “Waste of money,” wrote “I purchased three of these. What a waste. There’s virtually NO scent to these at all!! If I wasn’t confined to my home because of covid I would return these for sure....

This time, Olsen’s secret is really out of this world. On Monday the 58-year-old research scientist, philanthropist and grandfather will announce that he plans to become the next civilian to visit the International Space Station. Price tag: $20 million, cheap because “it’s hard to place a value on such a life-changing experience,” Olsen says. As they did with American Dennis Tito’s flight in 2001 and South African Mark Shuttleworth’s trip in 2002, Space Adventures of Arlington, Va....

Europe and the United States must stand firm together. Milosevic’s policy of ethnic cleansing must be defeated and reversed. President Clinton has shown exactly the right resolve and determination. Once again, our thanks go to him and to the American people for their support in the cause of what is right. Of course, we will be subject to the usual barrage of criticism, sometimes from people who, I think, find it hard to come to terms with the fact that there is a new generation of leaders in the United States and in Europe, who were born after World War II, who hail from the progressive side of politics, but who are prepared to be as firm as any of our predecessors right or left in seeing this thing through....

NEWSWEEK’S new section, which will be called “2000: The Millennium Notebook,” appears for the first time on the next editorial page of this issue. This feature, to run each week, will contain a wide range of stories, graphics and statistics. How are our eating and dressing habits likely to change? Which inventions of the past 100 years have affected us most profoundly (before you say television or the computer, consider air conditioning)?...

NEWSWEEK: You wrote and illustrated your first book, “The Houdini Box,” in 1991. But with “The Invention of Hugo Cabret” winning the Caldecott, do you feel like an overnight success story at 41? Brian Selznick: I still feel excited about the idea that anybody looks at a book that I make. I started out as a bookseller. When my first book came out, I was working at Eeyore’s Books for Children in New York City [which no longer exists]....

Of the more than 13,000 deaths reported in the entire state of New York so far, about 10,000 were in New York City. Include the deaths in the commuter counties of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, and you get over 16,000 for the larger New York City area, about 40 percent of the nation’s more than 40,000 deaths. It’s a tragedy, and Americans across the country weep. New York City is our nation’s real capital, and certainly our cultural capital....

Researchers at Quebec-based biotechnology company Medicago and drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline have developed a plant-based vaccine for SARS-COV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. And their recently reported interim findings from phase 2 clinical trials look promising. The vaccine uses a plant called Nicotiana benthamiana, which is a relative of the tobacco plant. Like other COVID-19 vaccines, the plant-based option is a two-dose shot given 21 days apart. Results of Medicago’s trials so far showed subjects developed a strong antibody response after receiving the jab—“about 10 times higher than those seen in people recovering from natural disease,” Brian Ward, MD, Medicago’s chief medical officer, tells Verywell....

As a new subscriber, I recently pulled my first issue of NEWSWEEK out of the mailbox and did a double take (“Prince Charming,” SOCIETY, June 26). Make that a triple take. Prince William is truly an amazing young man with an incredible future before him. We can hope and pray that he not only fulfills his destiny, but also makes his own private and personal dreams come true. One look at Diana’s son, and we are all reminded that life truly does go on....

As police reconstructed it, Billy Jack went out on the evening of Feb. 19 with Steven Eric Mullins, 25, and Charles Monroe Butler, 21, both residents of nearby Fayetteville. They went to the Tavern, a bar in Sylacauga, and left in Gaither’s car. Mullins was known around town for wearing KKK T shirts; he and Butler had brushes with the law in the past. According to investigators, the two men planned to attack Billy Jack for at least two weeks, allegedly because Gaither made a homosexual overture to one of them....

Israel’s bellicose Prime Minister Ariel Sharon may have met his match in men like Ibrahim Ebayat. All of Israel’s high-tech weaponry and well-trained soldiers are proving inadequate against a growing army of Palestinians–hardened fighters ready to die for their cause. In one 24-hour period last week, Palestinian militants killed 21 Israelis, the greatest number of Israeli deaths in a single day since the Tel Aviv discotheque bombing last May. Sharon responded with unprecedented violence....

Except that A-Rod won’t be making that chase, as he told ESPN’s Andrew Marchand on Wednesday that he plans to retire after his contract runs out following the 2017 season. For someone who has as much interest in baseball history as Rodriguez does, it’s hard to believe that he doesn’t know what this decision means. MORE: Where does A-Rod rank among most-hated? | Best MLB players by age, 21-43 The signal sent is the ultimate change in A-Rod, moving away from the image of the ultimate self-absorbed ballplayer to someone giving up a chance at history when it could easily be within his reach....

But on Tuesday, pictures of some of the meals that the Athletics organization served its minor leaguers were leaked. Needless to say, they weren’t pretty. FAGAN: These stars lead the Cy Young, MVP and Rookie of the Year races As shared by the Advocates for Minor Leaguers Twitter account, the A’s meals were a bit lacking. The A’s apparently agreed with the assessment. In a quote tweet of the picture, A’s team president Dave Kaval called the meals “totally unacceptable” and confirmed that the organization had cut ties with the third-party vendor weeks before....