Book Reviews Fast Food Nation: A bestseller shows us how fast food has changed our landscape, economy, and health -- revealing the dark side of drive-through. • Adopting a simpler life • Kids, parents, and power struggles • The pressure to be perfect Interviews Click here to find out how Gary Hall took on type 1 diabetes and came away with Olympic gold. • Breathless in Sydney: Misty Hyman and Amy Van Dyken • Exercise Lite! • Kurt Cobain's cousin on youth suicide

First Person Essays Our intrepid reporter marked National Volunteer Blood Donor Month with a first-person account of how he changed from a "hyperventilating basket case" to someone who happily surrenders his plasma. • Beth's story: A caregiver's diary • Goodbye to coffin nails • Heart attack diary, part I Special Reports What ever happened to SARS? Although concerns about the spread of this disease has abated since spring, travelers should still beware. What precautions can you take? • Bad business: Ephedra supplements • School lunch: Invasion of the body fatteners • World Trade Center health fallout