In this issue
Edition: U.S.
Edition: U.S.
Vol. 142 No. 7
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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)

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