Vol. 142 No. 7

NATION

Absent-Minded (The Week)

And Potatoes Don't Even Vote (The Week)

Dispatches (The Week)
Searching for Jerry Seinfeld

Going the Last Mile (Cover Stories Budget)

Health Report (The Week)

I Wish I Was in the Land of Cotton . . . (The Week)

Informed Sources (The Week)

WORLD

A Casualty of Level-10 Frustration (Bosnia)

Blood, Threats and Fears (Bosnia)
It's decision time. Will NATO launch air attacks? Can the Serbs avoid being bombed by pulling back? Will the Bosnians agree to partition their country?

SCIENCE

Forecast: (Space)
Meteor Deluge Astronomers expect a spectacular display in the night skies

SOCIETY

An Artist to Plead for Art (Culture)
Actress Jane Alexander exits Broadway to revitalize the National Endowment

Car Thief At Large (Crime)
Mark Wills, the body cruncher of Bucks County, is still on the lam -- and may just be stealing a car near you

Hell on Wheels (Crime)
Car crime is no longer a matter of stealing parts but of taking lives -- and an American icon becomes less and less of a sanctuary

TECHNOLOGY

Billion-Dollar Blowup (Rockets)
A disastrous explosion means fewer spies in the sky and a giant hole in the U.S. intelligence budget

LAW

First, Kiss All the Lawyers
Can the legal profession salvage its image from an onslaught of lawyer bashing?

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Four Ghosts And a Baby (Reviews Cinema)

Heidi Does Hollywood (Show Business)
The downfall of the very model of a major madam sends worried executives and stars fluttering for cover

TO OUR READERS

From the Managing Editor (From The Managing Editor)