But Should We Believe It? (BEHAVIOR)

It's Good Old Monogamy That's Really Sexy (ANOTHER VIEW)

Now for the Truth About Americans and Sex (BEHAVIOR)
The first comprehensive survey since Kinsey smashes some of our most intimate myths


A Tokyo Head Twister: Look Who's Buying U.S. Cars! (Politics)

Annals of Blubbering (Chronicles)

Battle of the Buzz Words (Chronicles)

Besuboru Like It Oughta Be (Chronicles)
The Yomiuri Giants and Chunichi Dragons battled for Japan's Central League championship, while the Seibu Lions clinched a fifth Pacific League pennant.

Dispatches (Chronicles)
One Man Against the Plague

Health Report (Chronicles)

Inside Washington (Chronicles)
Finally, a Peace Dividend (and from the Embattled CIA, No Less)

Kiss-and-Tellee of the Week (Chronicles)

Lying Down with Dogs (Intelligence)
The CIA's payoffs to a top Haitian thug raises new questions about the agency's methods. Has it gone too far again?

Netwatch (Chronicles)
News, Culture, Controversy on the Internet

Q: Are Americans Too Litigious? (Chronicles)

The Week October 2-8 (Chronicles)

Trickery Wins Over Trade (Politics)
Business leaders have dreams of conquering new markets, but they bridle as Newt Gingrich delays one of history's most ambitious acts of economic legislation

Winners & Losers (Chronicles)


Cops for Democracy (Haiti)
The U.S. military tightens its hold to make the country safe for Aristide's return

Suddenly, Saddam Again (Iraq)
As internal dissent increases, Baghdad rattles its sabers, forsaking a charm offensive to end sanctions

The Americans Left Behind (Southeast Asia)
As the nation's last Vietnam POW is declared dead, fresh details emerge on an failed effort to save captured servicemen


In the Reign of Fire (Cults)
Once again, mass death in an apocalyptic sect. This time, it was murder


D.A.R.E. Bedeviled (Controversy)
A new study questions the effectiveness of the country's most popular drug-prevention program

On the Money the Banana Wars

Time (Contents)
Contents Page October 17, 1994 -- Vol. 144, No. 16

Time (Masthead)
Masthead October 17, 1994 -- Vol. 144, No. 16

Something Smells Fowl (Regulation)
The Espy scandal is minor compared with the way the USDA has favored the poultry industry


Schools for Profit
In desperation, a Connecticut city turns its classrooms over to entrepreneurs, launching a revolution


A Gangster Steals the Show (Arts & Media / CINEMA)
Woody Allen's Bullets over Broadway, about a hoodlum turned playwright, is deft and funny and defines genius too

Exile's Return (Arts & Media / MUSIC)
Liz Phair's second album is winningly lusty and honest

Force of Evil (Arts & Media / THEATER)
Richard Thomas successfully turns villain as Richard III

Juggling Live Electric Eels (Arts & Media / BOOKS)
Ed McBain can do anything, as his circus mystery shows

Not Dinosaurs-- Giants (Arts & Media / MUSIC)
Superlative albums by Neil Young and Eric Clapton reveal two rock stalwarts who continue to renew and deepen their work

Russia's Secret Spoils of World War Ii (Arts & Media / MUSEUMS)
The Hermitage in St. Petersburg breaks its silence on a hidden trove of Impressionist treasures

The Grafitti of Loss (Arts & Media / ART)
In nuanced abstractions, America's Cy Twombly shores up scribbly fragments against the ruins of the past

The Long, Winding Road (Arts & Media / PHOTOGRAPHY)
With one book, Robert Frank changed photography. Now a fine new show fills out the picture

True Minds That Don't Meet A.r. (Arts & Media / THEATER)
Gurney's tribute to John Cheever misses the elegant pain

Ultimate American in Paris (Arts & Media / BOOKS)
Composer Ned Rorem writes a worldy, catty autibiography

Wary Friends (Arts & Media / BOOKS)
Grace and wit endow a best-selling novel about race


Aristide On (Interview)
America's role and Haiti's future REMEMBRANCE, NOT VENGEANCE


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