Vol. 151 No. 1

NATION

The Deadly Trainer
Air Force cadets are dying in a new aircraft with a dubious mission and many mechanical problems

At His Own Request
Is Kaczynski's rejection of his best chance for a defense a result of paranoid schizophrenia?

Tragedy Strikes Again
As it has done too often, the Kennedy clan gathers to mourn an untimely death, the painful result of a senseless accident in Aspen

Bobby and Ethel's Brood: The Weight of Legacy

WORLD

The Rubin Rescue
After trying to whistle past the Asian crisis, Washington has now waded in. Will the bailout work?

Will Asians Dump Their Treasuries? Not Too Likely

Laws of the Jungle
In the wake of a massacre, Mexico is struggling to avoid slipping even further into chaos

Violence On The Fringe
A paramilitary leader in Northern Ireland is murdered. Can the moderates prevail?

SCIENCE

A Lousy, Nit-Picking Epidemic
A hair-raising plague of head lice has descended on America's schoolkids. What can stop it?

Heading Into Thick Air
After a rocky ride claims the life of a passenger, airlines look for better ways to spot turbulence

Preventive Medicine: Murder Most Fowl

SOCIETY

Road Rage
Aggressive driving is America's car sickness du jour. But is there a cure for thinking everyone else on the road is an idiot?

NOTEBOOK

Notebook

Hollywood (The Scoop)
Problems with Scream Make Weinsteins Holler

A Picture Worth a Thousand Words

Techwatch (Techwatch)

Milestones (Milestones)

Washington (The Scoop)
When Rehnquist Talks, The Fight Begins

Campaign Finance (The Scoop)
Immunity May Be Given To Indonesian Pair

The Kremlin (The Scoop)
High-Tech Images Show That Yeltsin's O.K.

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE

This Long Disease

Prohibition All Over Again
In California, smokers lose a once sacrosanct haven--bars

BUSINESS

Charge!
American Express may not have the cachet it once did, but its card business is growing again, thanks to a grittier game plan and no-nonsense management

Goodbye, Freebies--Hello, Fees

LAW

The Honeymooners
Attention voyeurs: after two years of legal haggling, Pamela and Tommy's home video hits the stores

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

It's All About Timing (The Arts / Television)
That's why, nine seasons into one of TV's great runs, Jerry Seinfeld called it quits

Can Anybody Fill Seinfeld's Shoes? (The Arts / Television)
From yada to nada, NBC copes with no more Jerry--and maybe no more ER

The Boxer (The Arts / Cinema: Short Takes)
What If Rocky Fought All the I.R.A. Bad Guys?

Dames! Stiffs! Mugs! (The Arts / Photography)
Weegee, king of the tabloids, could always give the rough picture

Havana Punch (The Arts / Books)
Elmore Leonard writes a historical novel. Kind of

Billy's Ashes (The Arts / Books)
A shrewd, elegiac novel about a lifelong drunk

Afterglow (The Arts / Cinema: Short Takes)
Insignificant Others

Ma Vie En Rose (The Arts / Cinema: Short Takes)
He's Pretty in Pink, and the Town Is Seeing Red

Forgetting Nothing (The Arts / Television)

PEOPLE

People

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