Vol. 136 No. 21
NATION
Just Say No, Rover
American Notes INVESTIGATIONS
Deja Vu All Over Again
American Notes NEW YORK CITY
Nowhere To Go
American Notes SPORT
Red Sails In the Sunset
American Notes THE BUDGET
Poor Children Win One
And Take a Memo: More Birdseed (Grapevine)
Heavy Reading (Grapevine)
Here Come De Judge (Grapevine)
Ignoble Prize for Candor (Grapevine)
Jailhouse Rockefellers
Cell-block philanthropists are doing good while doing time
Long Goodbye of the Week (Grapevine)
Lout of the Week (Grapevine)
Nickname of the Week (Grapevine)
On The Warpath
Spreading confusion about his plans, Bush escalates his verbal offensive against Saddam Hussein -- and then pulls back
Plain Squeaking
Bush tries hard to "give 'em hell," but his harsh campaign attacks on Democrats fail to boost his sagging credibility
Racial Injustice?
A judge's remarks raise questions about Barry's sentence
Ready For Action
Dick Cheney and Colin Powell are the savviest pair to lead the Pentagon in years. They will be put to the ultimate test if Desert Shield becomes a sword.
Rich, White and Male (Grapevine)
Stop The Music (Grapevine)
The Presidency
The Lessons of History
They Don't Need to Fight
The Islamic allies deployed in the Arabian desert have already done their job even if they never fire a single shot
Who Has the Power to Make War?
Who Wants The Drumstick? (Grapevine)
WORLD
The Phony Windfall
Europe An Island No More Hello! Allo!
Britain literally joins Europe as tunnel workers link up under the English Channel
In Moldavia, What's Yours Is Mine
India The Awesome Wrath of Rama
Religious nationalism threatens to bring down the government and splinter the country
Soviet Union Time of Troubles
The U.S.S.R. slips closer to dissolution as Boris Yeltsin leads a second Russian Revolution. How will Gorbachev keep the empire together?
World Notes NICARAGUA
Sandinistas Wing It
World Notes NIGERIA
Your Money Or Your . . .
World Notes NORWAY
Not Ready To Say Yes
World Notes UNITED NATIONS
Protecting the Palestinians
SCIENCE
Forsaken by McDonald's, foam packaging may be on the way out
Cracking Cancer's Code
Researchers are learning how genes start tumors -- or stop them
Death in The Mediterranean (Environment)
Pollution aggravates a plague among Europe's dolphins
HEALTH & MEDICINE
No, Cooking Oil Canola is the latest love of the cholesterol-free set
Mighty Mice (Medicine)
To study AIDS, scientists give rodents a touch of humanity
When Bones Are Brittle (Medicine)
Osteoporosis may take root in young women
You Should Live So Long (Health)
Human life-span, despite medical advances, has an upper limit
ALSO IN THIS ISSUE
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Time (Masthead)
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BUSINESS
An Oasis From Home
Business Notes HIT PRODUCTS
It's Here: The Great Pumpkin
Business Notes LIVESTOCK
Even Cowboys Count Calories
Business Notes MEDIA
Faint Signal At FNN
Business Notes TOYS
A Slap On the Wrist
Dangerous Curves Ahead
As sales slide, Detroit braces for a bad patch
Down And Dirty at the News
Amid threats and violence, the fight for New York City's largest tabloid could set the tone for labor relations in the '90s
Trouble On The Horizon
Buffeted by rising fuel prices and falling traffic, U.S. airlines are heading for a major shake-out
World Of Business
Eskimos Do Want Refrigerators
EDUCATION
A major revision shakes up the all-important SATS
LAW
A jury must decide whether a woman claiming to have multiple-personality disorder was sexually assaulted
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Three new musicals revive romance from long ago and far away
Basic Rites (Books)
Critics Voices (Critics Voices)
Dino DNA (Books)
Fatal Swath (Books)
Odd Coupling (Cinema)
Random Taps a Tough Brit (Books)
Hard-driving Harold Evans takes charge at the publishing house
Riding To Redemption Ridge (Cinema)
Rushes (Cinema)
Seeing The Far in the Near (Art)
A Midwest show reassesses the underknown Richard Pousette-Dart
MILESTONES
Milestones: DIED. Elliott Roosevelt
Milestones: DIED. Herbert Brodkin
Milestones: DIED. William French Smith
Milestones: SEEKING DIVORCE. Ivana Trump
PEOPLE
PAUL SIMON's musical wanderings have taken him from Africa to Brazil and to the deepest, farthest reaches of himself
Taking The Measure of American Racism (Interview)
South African-born MARK MATHA BANE, author of Kaffir Boy in America, compares two forms of apartheid -- here and there