The cover story on male hormone therapy--"Can It Keep Men Young"--wouldn't be out of place in Men's Journal or Cosmopolitan. The rejuvenating effects (stronger muscles, better mood, more energy) of testosterone, human growth hormone, and related chemicals are hyped, but Newsweek's real interest is in how drugs improve sex. The magazine charts "angle of erection" and "orgasms per year"; it refers to someone as a "sexual iron man." Also, Newsweek argues with itself about the Iraq assault. A military columnist says the United States must slowly crush Saddam Hussein; a foreign-affairs columnist explains how Hussein serves U.S. interests (fear of Iraq has made U.S. allies of countries like Saudi Arabia and Jordan). And the magazine piles on Dick Morris, revealing that he was arrested in the mid-'70s for banging on the cockpit door during an airline flight.

Despite Time's and Newsweek's entry into the college-guides sweepstakes this summer, U.S. News' "Best Colleges" issue is still the benchmark. The 10th annual edition ranks 1,422 schools in 14 different categories, and it is even more Ivy-covered than usual: Yale, Princeton, and Harvard finish one-two-three in the university rankings; Swarthmore tops the list of liberal-arts colleges. Issue editor Mel Elfin warns that American higher education has become dangerously expensive and inefficient. His solution: more technology, more marketing, less tenure. Also, Fouad Ajami writes about how the raid on Iraq reflects America's inability to choose between empire and isolation.

The Times Magazine features a sympathetic profile of a Brooklyn high-school principal named Michael Johnson who, says the piece, is turning inner-city kids into overachievers--but getting no praise from most school reformers. Why? Traditional progressives, the article argues, take a more patronizing view of poor, minority students than does the new, tough breed of black educators. The magazine also looks at Sarajevo's "lost generation" of youths. Raised in their early years in a cosmopolitan, tolerant tradition, they are now disillusioned, disaffected--and jobless. And there's a quick look at the "anti-Newt"--the Democratic cookie millionaire who is challenging the speaker in his home district in November.