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April 24, 2000 Issue

"The next hundred years will be the age of biology. This is where the next information revolution will be."
-- Dr. Lance Liotta, of the National Cancer Institute, "The Age of Discovery"

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Best of New York
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Who's the best new chef? What new boutique grows in Brooklyn? Who sells the sexiest lingerie? These are not questions one takes lightly. But after countless hours of research (as well as an exhausting regimen of shopping, spa treatments, burger tastings, and rounds of golf), the results are in.

Food
Late-night noshing, neighborhood trattorias, real pit barbecue, and oysters that are as romantic as advertised: Stay hungry.

Shopping
Want to join the club-chair craze? Fancy a pair of cashmere sweats? New scuba gear? Where to buy what your heart desires.

Nightlife
After-hours parties, new jazz joints, Brooklyn bar-hopping, a clubgoers' Website -- if you're still staying home, you have no excuse.

Kids
Child-friendly restaurants, beautiful handmade toys, the highest of art classes: Parental guidance provided.

Beauty & Fitness
Getting trimmed, toned, waxed, clipped, polished, shaved, stretched, blown dry, and otherwise primped to your peak potential.

Services
Wildflowers, waiters for hire, cashmere reweavers, criminal-defense lawyers: Everybody needs somebody.

Leisure
Tee off in Brooklyn, tune in to Sinatra on the weekend, lunch alfresco in midtown: Savoring the city's simplest pleasures.

GOTHAM
NYPD blue, in black and white; Brooklyn's big chill
GOTHAM REAL ESTATE
Empty nests: Prime apartments lie fallow; the other Michael Jordan's new starter home
GOTHAM STYLE
Photo-finished bags and clothes

DEPARTMENTS
Intelligencer
BY BETH LANDMAN KEIL WITH IAN SPIEGELMAN

The City Politic
BY MICHAEL TOMASKY

Rudy says he released Dorismond's record only because he died, but the mayor's own record says otherwise

The National Interest
BY LAWRENCE O'DONNELL

Forget about campaign finance; the key issue facing voters, whether they realize it or not, is Social Security

The Bottom Line
BY JAMES J. CRAMER

In the days of easy money, managing a hedge fund got harder than ever -- just look at Dana Giacchetto and Tiger Management

MARKETPLACE
Best Bets
BY CORKY POLLAN

Tod's totes, Brooks shirts, and other Easter treats for grown-ups

Sales & Bargains
BY SHYAMA PATEL

Tints of things to come: the latest in inexpensive designer sunglasses

THE CRITICS
Movies
BY PETER RAINER

American Psycho: A morality tale that missed its moment

Theater
BY JOHN SIMON

Copenhagen has all the ingredients of a good play -- except drama

Architecture
BY JOSEPH GIOVANNINI

Penn Station goes express

Classical Music
BY PETER G. DAVIS

A reconstructed Bach score is clever but lifeless

Dance
BY TOBI TOBIAS

Boris Eifman's ballets continue to make all the wrong moves

Pop Music
BY ETHAN SMITH

ne-man band Elliott Smith goes it alone again, naturallyCUE
Léa Pool's bid for film freedom; jazz greats go one-on-one; Vine offers Wall Street upscale dining and a new market; Knitting Factory's "Jew Revue"

Classifieds
Strictly Personals