Vol. 142 No. 13

NATION

An Illustrated History of Coming to Grips (The Week)

Dispatches the Plumber and the T. Rex (The Week)

Health Report (The Week)

Informed Sources (The Week)

News Digest September 12-18 (The Week)

Raw Data (The Week)

The Good Old Malaise Days (The Week)

The Morning Line (The Week)

Winners & Losers (The Week)

Yet Another Setback for the White Male (The Week)

WORLD

"I Oppose the Creation of a Palestinian State" (Middle East)

"This Is a Step Toward a Palestinian State" (Middle East)

Caution: Speed Bumps Ahead (Middle East)
To proceed down the road to peace, Israelis and Palestinians still need to resolve differences

History in a Handshake (Middle East)
The world felt the weight of the moment as two enemies joined in a profound statement of hope

SCIENCE

Hawking Gets Personal
The author of the best-selling A Brief History of Time tries a new formula: less cosmology, more about himself

HEALTH & MEDICINE

Lots of Second Opinions (Health Care)
Clinton's plan is heading for an operating room full of lobbyists

SOCIETY

Afterlives of the Revolutionaries (Crime)

The Return of the Fugitive (Crime)
After 23 years in hiding, Katherine Power relinquishes her freedom

TECHNOLOGY

The Amazing Video Game Boom (Cover Cybertech)
Kid stuff has become serious business as Hollywood and Silicon Valley race to attract a new generation to the information highway

Too Violent for Kids? (Cybertech)

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE

How Man Created God (Ideas)
In a provocative new book, a former nun explains how God really is in the details

Spectator Can 42nd Street Be Born Again?
Wisely, New York would preserve the honky-tonk diversity of 42nd Street

The Political Interest Will Abortion Be Covered?

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BUSINESS

A Tale of Two Jobs: One Lost, One Gained (Trade)
A look at the factories of Toledo shows how NAFTA will cost some jobs but replace them with better ones

The Man with the Iron Grasp
Through sheer will, he escaped a fatal fire; now the king of MTV wants to become a media tycoon

Will They Reach the Altar?

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Bochco Under Fire (Television)
His racy NYPD Blue finally airs after a summer of controversy and a wave of affiliate defections

Childe Virgil in Operaland (Reviews Music)

Grabbing for The Jugular (Reviews Cinema)

Heart Of Darkness (Reviews Music)

Mr. O'Brien's Neighborhood (Reviews Television)

My Friend Tir na nOg (Reviews Cinema)

Two Knights of the Opera (Music)
As they toast 25 years at the Met, Pavarotti and Domingo are still opera's supertenors

Words Without Music, for Sure (Reviews Books)

PEOPLE

"I Didn't Get Hired to Fix Everything" (Interview)
Admitting that he has made mistakes, Bill Clinton tells how he feels he has learned to be presidential and to lead the journey toward the 21st century

TO OUR READERS

From the Publisher (From The Publisher)

ESSAY

The Right Should Try Journalism