Vol. 126 No. 3
NATION
Reagan's unexpected surgery
The Perplexing, and Sometimes Perilous, Polyp (Cover Stories)
Who's Minding the Store?
Delicate questions arise on the transfer of presidential power
Exit the Whiz Kid
Stockman heads for Wall Street
Cooking the Books
Washington fights the deficit with creative accounting
"It's the Worst Ever"
A fire-fighting crew of record size battles blazes in 14 states
SCIENCE
After 65 million years, an ancient creature will fly again
The Colorless, Odorless Killer (Environment)
A million U.S. homes may be contaminated by deadly radon
SOCIETY
The newest Canadian import makes a game out of morality
PRESS
Navel battle of the newsstands
TV Examines Its Excesses (Newswatch)
RELIGION
A rabbi offers a provocative theory on Christianity's origins
SPORT
The Wimbledon winner "just plays, says thank you and goodbye"
STYLE & DESIGN
San Francisco adopts restrictive new urban-development rules
TECHNOLOGY
The defense system's crucial link may be the program that runs it
ALSO IN THIS ISSUE
Past leaders hid illnesses
American Notes
World Notes
Rude Noises
CAPTAIN MAXIMUS
Interiors
BEFORE THE TRUMPET: YOUNG FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT, 1882-1905
WORLD
As black townships simmer, divestiture divides the U.S.
Fingering the Hijackers (Lebanon)
Names are named, but the U.S. doubts that justice will be done
Crackdown on Jewish Militants (Middle East)
West Bank violence is punished and suicide bombers strike
Wary U.S. Aid (Southeast Asia)
Envoys seek to end a conflict
Deep Grab (Disasters)
"Black boxes" are recovered
Mean Machine (Mexico)
The government wins again
A Global Feminist Critique (Kenya)
In Nairobi, two conferences assess women's progress
BUSINESS
Consumer revolt forces the company to bring back the old, familiar flavor
E.F. Hutton's Simmering Scandal (Economy & Business)
More and more questions are raised about the investment firm
Business Notes
EDUCATION
Sunbelt school systems are caught with their rosters short
LAW
How a canny liberal became the court's master strategist
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
The Live Aid concerts raise big bucks, tall hopes and a few hackles
Apocalypse in the Living Room (Books)
CARPENTER'S GOTHIC by William Gaddis; Viking; 262 pages; $16.95
Nighttime's Master of the Mike (Video)
In a tower of babble, Larry King is riding high
Bard, Bible and Forklift Truck (Theater)
In London, imaginative revivals highlight the season
The Postapocalypse Rings Thrice (Cinema)
Hayes and George Miller
Cuisinartistry (Cinema)
SILVERADO