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TO OUR READERS 4

LETTERS 8

CHRONICLES 13

MILESTONES 18

HEALTH CARE: Is Clinton's Plan DOA? 20

The President's scheme barely survives a week of body blows

THE ECONOMY: Hard Choices, Harsh Moves 25

The Fed raises rates as Clinton readies a budget filled with pain

INVESTIGATIONS: Questions Persist About Whitewater 26

White House denials fail to straighten the tax snarl

CITIES: The Kids Shared Bones with the Dog 30

Nineteen children in a squalid apartment shock Chicago

PROTESTS: Mad About Milk 31

A hormone engineered to boost cows' output creates an uproar

CALIFORNIA: Visions for a Shattered City 32

Urban designers imagine what a quakeproof L.A. might be like

VIETNAM: Fresh Start 34

Yankees are welcome in Hanoi as Clinton lifts the embargo

BOSNIA: An Atrocious Attack 45

Mortar shelling brings horror to Sarajevo shoppers

JAPAN: High-Stakes Summitry 46

Will Clinton get tough with a precarious Hosokawa?

RUSSIA: Chernomyrdin's Choice 48

Will Moscow's Prime Minister opt for reform or hyperinflation?

COVER: Are Men Really That Awful? 52

The prestige of masculinity is in steep decline. The overt man bashing of recent years has refined itself into a pervasive snideness. What does a man have to say for himself?

SPORT: Harding Slips -- but What's the Truth? 60

As the Olympics near, her role remains unclear

THE ARTS & MEDIA

Show Business: Ricky Jay, master conjurer, beguiles his audiences with the

most esoteric of card tricks 62

Sundance has become a Hollywood marketer's dream 65

Television: Live! Direct from the electric chair! 66

Theater: A rising composer's sexy rondelet 67

Eric Bogosian's fierce satire is edged with mid-life lament 67

Cinema: Body Snatchers, third time around, is a scream 68

Hit persons and soft porn are the key to Romeo Is Bleeding 71

Books: John Updike imagines the Tristan myth in Brazil 73

Music: Moody rock from Counting Crows 73

PEOPLE 75

ESSAY 76

COVER: Photo composite: Pig by Hans Reinhardd -- Okapia/Photo Researchers. Body by Dennis Chalkin for TIME

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