Time Magazine Contents Page

COVER STORIES

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ENVIRONMENT:

Ozone Breakdown

The threat is more imminent than anyone predicted

What Can Be Done?

A lot, but life may never be the same

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NATION:

Band-Aids for Health Care

Bush's prescription for reform is just one of many plans

Campaign Update

Reports on Tsongas, Clinton, Buchanan

The Grinch That Stole Mardi Gras

Why the party is under a cloud

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WORLD:

Eastern Europe's Shock Therapy

Joblessness, price hikes and discontent

The Night of the Colonels

Venezuela's officers bungle a coup

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BUSINESS:

Sailing Against the Tide

Defying the recession, cruise ships leave port with their cabins almost filled

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OLYMPICS:

Stompin' in the Savoie

The games begin with Gallic zest -- and some gridlock

INTERVIEW An ex-K.K.K. Grand Dragon plans to convert to Judaism

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ARCHAEOLOGY A high-tech search for Arabia's fabled lost city

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LAW Is a woman cop better on the beat than a man? 70

SCIENCE A genetic disease strangely worsens with each generation

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BOOKS Robert Stone's new novel is both dexterous and sinister

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DESIGN Robert Venturi, pioneer of Postmodernism, finally has his day 82

TELEVISION Prime-time news shows are hot, but are they news?

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SPORT Jim Courier is tennis' unsung, and unspoiled, champion

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ESSAY Barbara Ehrenreich on the need for breast implants 88

DEPARTMENTS

LETTERS 5 MILESTONES 73

GRAPEVINE 19 PEOPLE 87

COVER Flame photograph for TIME by Dennis Chalkin; sky by Ron Sawade -- the Stock Market; digital imaging by David Anderson