Vol. 143 No. 16
COVER
Need a Place to Puff? Hint: Grab Your Passport
The Butt Stops Here (Cover Stories)
Threatening to snuff out smoking for good, the crusade against tobacco shifts into higher gear
What's All the Fuming About?
Poor smokers: they're the one dysfunctional minority nobody cares about
NATION
A State of Instability $ (Politics)
Ghosts from their pasts torment Chuck Robb and Oliver North in Virginia's bizarre Senate contest
Bill's Revival Hour (The Administration)
Taking his health-care-reform plan on the road, the President aims to win back some believers
Biosphere Blues (Chronicles)
But Is There a Part for Wesley Snipes? (Chronicles)
Dispatches (Chronicles)
Execution Capital, U.S.A.
Health Report (Chronicles)
Informed Sources (Chronicles)
Inside Washington (Chronicles)
One Steps Down. Who Steps Up? (The Supreme Court)
The President wants a nominee who can breeze through the Senate. Could it be a Senator?
The Boys of Whitewater (Chronicles)
The Week April 3 -9 (Chronicles)
Winners & Losers (Chronicles)
Zhirinovsky Beat (Chronicles)
WORLD
Dangerous Rumors (Guatemala)
Suspicions rise over the origin of antiforeigner hostility that provoked assaults on American women
Descent into Mayhem (Central Africa)
Tribal slaughter erupts in Rwanda, trapping foreigners and forcing the U.S. to send troops to the region
How Scandal Finally Outran the Reformer (Japan)
He promised to clean up "money politics." But in the end, Hosokawa was felled by his own improprieties.
Peace Postponed (Middle East)
As violence escalates, Israeli forces prepare to redeploy, but P.L.O. police are yet to be seen in Gaza
WAR & TERRORISM
Declining enrollment and lost prestige raise concerns about their $1 billion cost to taxpayers
Arms Trade (Arms Trade)
Wanted to Buy: Do-It-Yourself Nuke Kits (Arms Trade)
SCIENCE
The U.S. prepares to slap trade sanctions on Taiwan
Tales From The Crypt
Colonial bodies show how hard 17th century life was
HEALTH & MEDICINE
As if devastating the immune system were not enough, the AIDS virus may also trigger cancer
The Crucial Early Years (Health)
A disturbing new report dramatizes the perils facing American children under three -- and calls for action
PRESS
Joe Lelyveld moves up at the nation's premier daily and brings in a surprising old hand as his deputy
ALSO IN THIS ISSUE
Don't Rush for the Exit
Old No. 3 Goes Home
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BUSINESS
Alan Greenspan, the man who helped trigger the stock slide, now faces questions about his judgment and his political independence
Russian Air Roulette (Aviation)
Service on Aeroflot was once considered just riotously bad. These days, it's getting downright dangerous.
LAW
Many Chicago tenants back no-warrant searches of apartments for guns, but a judge orders a halt
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
A fictional serial killer is hunted in 19th century New York City
Did F.D.R. Do Enough? (The Arts & Media / HISTORY)
Some believe the U.S. failed to save Jews during the Holocaust
Hacienda Melodrama (The Arts & Media / CINEMA)
The House of the Spirits is stilted and cliched, but fine performances and an honorable gravity give it merit
Never Mind (The Arts & Media / MUSIC)
Kurt Cobain was the dour, brilliant leader of Nirvana, the multiplatinum grunge band that defined the sound of the 1990s. Last week he killed himself.
Poets in Suicide Sex Shocker! (The Arts & Media / BOOKS)
Janet Malcolm explores the lurid obsession with Sylvia Plath
Soloist (The Arts & Media / CINEMA)
A film explores the curious life of great pianist Glenn Gould
Sultan of Shock (The Arts & Media / CINEMA)
Somehow the world has become just like a John Waters movie
What's the Diffidence? (The Arts & Media / BOOKS)
Louis Begley's prose is perfect, but his new book lacks passion