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Monitor articles for August 26, 1999

• Words of Note
• The Monitor Guide to The Bestsellers
• Young Readers
• News In Brief
• Think potholes, then think plastics
• Welfare to work not easy in Deep South
• A little jungle adventure
• Continuing employment
• Love, music, and revolution in Paris
• Today's Story Line:
• China spy case: real or imagined?
• A most charming family history
• News In Brief
• Neighbors have their own designs on Afghanistan
• Moose numbers on rise in Maine
• Buried gold, time travel, and cannons
• Give women a role in Kosovo
• As American as apple pie, or Disneyland
• Albanians say 'no' to Russians
• Correction
• Book sales up 4 percent
• A good deal for Cuba and the US
• High-stakes instant-message battle
• Small-town charm meets big-city buzz
• Little light bulbs of faith
• News In Brief
• Of mice and moose
• News In Brief
• 'The Greatest American Hero'
• Sounds of school: bells, songs, and King's English
• Determined quiet after a desperate past
• Cartoon
• What about disasters TV crews miss?
• What's New
• A license to freedom gets some restrictions
• Letters
• Choose the right word
• Canada's cops rethink gun control
• Did You Hear The One...
• Sunspots may play role in global warming
• In quest for workers, firms search ranks of US military
• Nice place to visit . . . but would you want to live there?
• N. Korea pursues - and resists - some capitalist ways
• Walk - do not run - to read this book
• The Hammerlock on Iraq