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Medical When Doctors Need Help: Students Battle Burnout by Gina Shaw Medical school is notoriously challenging, but few outside the profession realize just how dangerous that stress can be. Fresh Faces City Keeps Topping Itself With High-End Additions by Stephanie Kanowitz To stay fresh in a cutthroat industry, several notable area hotels have undergone massive transformations, while brand new properties throw their lot into the competition. Packages Tourists in D.C. Can Beat the Heat, While Getting Bang for their Buck by Christine Cubé This summer, Washington hotels are offering hot bargains that take the sweat out of sightseeing. Sidebar: Last-minute travel sites offering first-rate deals.

Cover Profile: Libya Libya Makes Headway Courting West, Though Verdict on Reforms Still Out by Larry Luxner Though still an eccentric revolutionary who rules with an iron fist, Col. Muammar Gaddafi has made headway in softening Libya’s image and shedding — albeit slowing — its status as a global pariah. Sidebar: Libya Expands to New Shores By Reaching Out to Caribbean. People of World Influence Fund President Battles Cynicism To Rid World of Nuclear Weapons by John Shaw Joseph Cirincione, president of the Ploughshares Fund, believes the vision of a nuclear weapons-free world is no longer a fanciful, peace-loving dream, but a tangible, reasonable policy goal. International Affairs Medvedev vs. Putin: Who’s Ruling Russia? by Seth McLaughlin When President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev meet in Moscow this month, will he be talking to the real Russian leader, or a Putin puppet? Politics World’s Most Populous Muslim Country Focuses on Economy in Upcoming Elections by Larry Luxner When Indonesians go to the polls this month, it won’t be the threat of terrorism on the mind of the world’s most populous Muslim nation minds, but the dangerous state of the economy. International Relations Dialogue Brings Inextricably Linked Economic Giants Back to the Table by Michael Coleman There will be plenty to talk about at the upcoming U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue as two economic giants work to revive relations. Economy Obama’s Threat to Crack Down On Tax Havens Worries Caribbean by Larry Luxner Battered by hurricanes and economic drought, the Caribbean faces a new threat in the form of Washington’s efforts to regulate, some say destroy, the region’s lucrative financial services industry. Diplomacy Aid Workers Offer Firsthand Perspective on Third World Issues by Mark Hilpert Millions of humanitarian workers around the world routinely leave the comforts of home to voluntarily head into war zones and poverty-wracked nations, but why? Sidebar: Renowned Doctor Makes House Call at CARE

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