Time Magazine Contents Page

COVER STORY

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NATION: Call for a Cure

Medical costs are out of control. TIME offers 10 remedies for the crisis

ALSO: Louisiana proves that racial politics still works

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WORLD: War's Human Toll

Both Croatians and Serbs are starving and dying

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SOCIETY: How Safe Is Sex?

Magic's case puts the risks to heterosexuals in center court

INTERVIEW Former East German spy chief Markus Wolf reminisces

about the cold war 24

BUSINESS Stocks skid as low interest rates fail to spur the U.S. economy 64

MEDICINE The perils of breast implants and being short

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PROFILE John Bradshaw draws meaning from his own sad childhood

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ENVIRONMENT A voracious Superbug is chewing up California's crops

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TELEVISION Steven Bochco's Civil Wars revisits L.A. Law territory

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ART The world's treasures are falling victim to a boom in art theft 86

THEATER From prostitute to professor, a playwright's story

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SHOW BUSINESS A coroner's report on Bonfire of the Vanities

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MUSIC In the much anticipated Achtung Baby, U2 gets back its edge

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CINEMA A Disney Beauty and The Addams Family: the cartoon spirit lives 96

BOOKS Key words in Harold Brodkey's long-awaited novel: I, my, me

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PRESS Black cartoonists bring new color to the comics 104

ESSAY Michael Kinsley on David Duke and America's decline

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DEPARTMENTS

GRAPEVINE 33

LETTERS 10 MILESTONES 92

CRITICS' VOICES 20 PEOPLE 107

COVER Photograph for TIME by Dennis Chalkin