ROCK'S ANXIOUS REBELS (Cover Music)
A young, vibrant alternative scene has turned music on its ear. But are the new stars too hot to be cool?

WHERE'S THE NEXT SEATTLE (Cover Music)


Contrary to Popular Opinion (The Week)

Dispatches (The Week)
Hash Slinger to the Stars

Health Report (The Week)

NEWS DIGEST OCTOBER 10-16 (The Week)

WINNERS & LOSERS

SERIES KILLERS

RAW DATA

THE NEXT PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES? JIMMY CARTER.

INFORMED SOURCES

MAP

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THE GRIM ESCAPE (Georgia)
An army of the dispossessed faces cold and hunger after the Abkhazian triumph in Sukhumi

SPOTLIGHT

VOX POP

NEW WORLD VOICE MAIL

SLAMMING THE DOOR (Immigration)
A border blockade in El Paso reduces crime but also threatens the region's fragile economic balance


OAKLEY'S GAMBIT (Diplomacy)

In and Out with the Tide
Bloody rebukes in Somalia and Haiti raise questions about the lack of guiding principles behind Clinton's zigzagging foreign policy

SURFING INTO THE MELANCHOLY PAST (Vietnam)
A sports competition, of all things, lures a journalist into Vietnam, where all is smiles and sadness, and nobody can find Hamburger Hill


ISRAEL'S SECRET WEAPON (Arms Trade)
For this trading tycoon, a $3.5 billion military sale to China is only one chapter in a story of rags-to-riches success and nonstop wheeling and dealing


OXYGEN, PLEASE (Health Care)
As he delays turning it into law, Clinton loses momentum for his plan


THE SHOCK OF THE BLUE (Culture)
Beavis and Butt-head, Ted and Whoopi, Howard Stern and his Private Parts: Whatever happened to political correctness -- and good manners?


WINNING UGLY, IN SIX (Sports)
The Phillies, baseball's biker brigade, make road kill of the Braves and meet Toronto in the Series


THE POLITICAL INTEREST FEELING THE HEAT

SPECTATOR ROCK AND ROLL DEJA VU

Attention Nafta Shoppers! (Trade)
Trading favors: Clinton is not so much selling his trade pact with Mexico as he is buying it, with goodies for key lawmakers and special interests

Confessions of a 21st Century Couch Potato

WIRED!
Bell Atlantic's bid for cable giant TCI is the biggest media deal in history; it's also a peek at the future


Home Smoke-Free Home
Judges warn parents to stub out their cigarettes around the children -- or risk losing custody


Democracy's Toughest Test (Reviews Television)

Glimpses into Lost Souls (Reviews Theater)

THE BOHO DANCE (Reviews Music)

THE WILD MAN WITHIN (Reviews Books)

MADONNA GOES TO CAMP (Show Business)
She had shocked, then almost lost her audiences. Now the Queen of Burlesque just wants to be a clown.

''WHO WILL GO WITH ME!'' (Reviews Cinema)

THE GREATEST PIANIST OF ALL? (Reviews Music)

THE PUREST DREAMER IN PARIS (Art)
On his centenary, a lavish show celebrates the precise yet hauntingly poetic vision of Catalan artist Joan Miro


Genes, Pulsars and Slavery (Nobel Prizes)

THEY GAVE PEACE A CHANCE (Nobel Prizes)
Mandela and De Klerk are honored for bringing South Africa to the brink of freedom for all


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MODEL'S BLOCK

THE SEXIEST MAN: HIS STORY

TOP INFANT

CHILD IN NEED


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WHO REALLY PAYS THE BILL?

THE MAKING OF A ZEALOT

HONORED ENGLISHMEN

NEW MENSTRUAL THEORY

FRAMING THE BOUNDARIES OF EVIL

DANGEROUS TIMES

WARNINGS ABOUT NIGERIA


Housework Is Obsolescent