Vol. 141 No. 9
COVER
How the Plan Works (Cover Stories)
The Next Dose of Medicine (Cover Stories)
Working the Crowd (Cover Stories)
Despite its higher taxes, Clinton's economic plan gets a warm welcome from the public, but Congress seems ready to give it a pounding
NATION
Ca$Hing in on Chelsea: (Grapevine)
Death Becomes Her (Grapevine)
Doing Bush a Favor (The Week: Nation)
Did the U.S. Archivist trade his signature for a job?
Hails From The Chief (Grapevine)
Haiti Or Hades (The Week: Nation)
The Senate extends the ban on immigrants with the AIDS virus
Jail Time (The Week: Nation)
Mind Control Is a Terrible Thing to Waste (Grapevine)
Pure Damage Control (Grapevine)
Quick Start for a Long, Hard Campaign (The Week: Nation)
Clinton's deficit-cutting plan scores in first polls, but foes are formidable
Roofers From Hell (Florida)
Migrant construction workers following in the wake of Hurricane Andrew bring with them a violent crime wave
Temper, Temper (The Week: Nation)
Vox Pop (Grapevine)
Word Watch (Grapevine)
WORLD
Sides Find A New Weapon: Food Blockades, refusals and a U.N. feud snarl the distribution of relief
Breakthrough (The Week World)
The A.N.C. and the South African government agree to share power
Good Behavior (The Week World)
Beijing frees two dissidents and opens its oil fields to the West
In the Icy Grip of Death (Armenia)
Life is becoming nasty, brutish and short for 3.5 million people trapped in an undeclared war with Azerbaijan
Jungle Jailbreak (The Week World)
The murderers of Brazil's rain-forest martyr escape from prison
No One Ever Said It Would Be Easy (European Community)
Goods, people, capital and services are moving more freely, but so are jobs as Europe's attempt to form a more perfect union runs into trouble
No Reprieve (The Week World)
Nobel Demonstrators (The Week World)
On The Defensive (The Week World)
A rash of violence in and around Israel further dampens prospects for peace
Only to America (The Week World)
The Church Triumphant (The Week World)
Poland adopts one of Europe's strictest antiabortion measures
HEALTH & MEDICINE
Researchers hit on a new chemical combination to combat the virus
Biosphere Or Biostunt? (The Week Health & Science)
Scientists give the world's biggest terrarium a vote of no confidence
Dr. Jacobs' Alternative Mission (Health)
A new NIH office will put unconventional medicine to the test
Mind Over Malady (Health)
Risky Business (The Week Health & Science)
Two studies suggest a link between vasectomies and prostate cancer
Shark Bites Microbe (The Week Health & Science)
The denizen of the deep yields a powerful killer of bacteria and fungi
So You Want to Be a Doctor? (The Week Health & Science)
SOCIETY
Up to 10 million U.S. children are latchkey kids; hot lines are helping them battle fear and loneliness
About-Face (The Week: Society)
A plucky female challenges the all-male Citadel
Colson's Triumph (The Week: Society)
A notorious Watergate figure wins $1 million for his religious work
End of the Line (The Week: Society)
Home Alone Is No Place to Be (The Week: Society)
A rash of deaths reaffirms that child care is a national problem
Independents' Day (The Week: Society)
TECHNOLOGY
Consumers must once again choose between competing high-tech sound systems
ALSO IN THIS ISSUE
It Is a Time For Cunning
Time Magazine Contents Page March 1, 1993 Volume 141 No. 9 (Contents)
BUSINESS
Clinton's Labor Secretary tells the AFL-CIO what it most wants to hear
Bonds: Up. Stocks: Down, Up, Down . . . (The Week: Business)
Wall Street shows a split personality as it reacts to Clinton's deficit plan
Fully Loaded (The Week: Business)
A French company wins a major Middle East contract for battle tanks
Rolling Back Executive Pay
Taking a cue from President Clinton, opponents of excessive corporate salaries grow emboldened
The China Syndrome (The Week: Business)
The Week Business (The Week: Business)
Unprofitable Skies (The Week: Business)
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
First there's denial. Then anger. Finally acceptance. Comic Denis Leary may be here to stay. Deal with it.
Don't Read This Story! (Cinema)
. . . unless you've already seen The Crying Game, the sexy British mystery that won six Oscar nominations and made an unknown nonactor into a hot new star
Frontier Feminist (Reviews Television)
Jack Of All Trades (Reviews Books)
Losing It All in L.A. (Reviews Cinema)
Perversely High Tech (Reviews Music)
Phantom Mania (Theater)
Lloyd Webber has the big Broadway hit, but half a dozen other masked men are stalking the provinces
Short Takes (Reviews)
Signs of Anxiety (Art)
In a retrospective, American artist Susan Rothenberg emerges from the '80s as a painter of mystery, originality and real staying power
The Patient Is Impatient (Reviews Theater)
PEOPLE
He created a fourth network and mastered the Hollywood power game. Now Barry Diller is betting on TV's interactive future. )