Vol. 153 No. 1
NATION
Is he statesman enough to sell his plan for a quick Senate decision on Clinton?
The Olympics Turn into A Five-Ring Circus
Salt Lake City faces charges that it bought the games from the International Olympic Committee
A Very Public Trial for a Very Private Justice
WORLD
In an exclusive interview, Netanyahu describes his fall-- and his plan to return
Men Who Would Be Bibi
Other Israeli politicians can't stand Netanyahu, but the voters may still stick by him
Baghdad Briefing
After riding out strikes, Saddam shoots back
HEALTH & MEDICINE
The Biotech Century (The Future Of Medicine)
Racing To Map Our DNA (The Future Of Medicine)
Competition from private labs has forced the Human Genome Project into a frantic rush to finish first
Gene Maverick (The Future Of Medicine)
Craig Venter is a man in a hurry, and now all the genome mappers are operating on Venter time
Good Eggs, Bad Eggs (The Future Of Medicine)
The growing power of prenatal genetic tests is raising thorny new questions about ethics, fairness and privacy
Playing the Odds (The Future Of Medicine)
Health insurers want to know what's in your DNA
DNA Detectives (The Future Of Medicine)
Genetic fingerprinting is already being used to identify criminals. Can the rest of us be far behind?
Designer Babies (The Future Of Medicine)
Parents can now pick a kid's sex and screen for genetic illness. Will they someday select for brains and beauty too?
Who Gets the Good Genes? (The Future Of Medicine)
Fixing the Genes (The Future Of Medicine)
Gene therapy, heralded in the early 1990s, then stalled by one setback after another, is finally starting to live up to its promise
Dolly's False Legacy (The Future Of Medicine)
There is more to cloning than mere science--and more to human character than scientists can discover in a person's genes
Drugs By Design (The Future Of Medicine)
Thanks to genetics, the pharmaceutical industry is exploding with new ideas
Cursed by Eugenics (The Future Of Medicine)
A belief that human intelligence could guide evolution led the world to concentration camps
Brave New Farm (The Future Of Medicine)
The first commercial products bred by genetic engineering incur a backlash in Europe, where "Frankenstein" fears run deep
On the Horizon (The Future Of Medicine)
All for the Good (The Future Of Medicine)
Why genetic engineering must soldier on
What People Think (The Future Of Medicine)
Seed of Controversy (The Future Of Medicine)
Will this unemployed physicist be first to clone humans?
Success Stories (The Future Of Medicine)
The verdict on the pioneering children of gene therapy: so far, so good
NOTEBOOK
Crime (The Scoop)
Hey, Pops, Remember The Crack Old Days?
Two for the Low Road
Milestones (Milestones)
The First Couple (The Scoop)
Bill and Hill: Once More On the Public Couch
Russia (The Scoop)
If You Think Boris Has It Tough...
ALSO IN THIS ISSUE
Is This Right? Who Has the Right to Say?
A mother of octuplets, one already gone, says God has blessed her
What Ever Happened to the Class of '98?
Fifth-Year-Reunion Alumni Notes
BUSINESS
If hog prices are so low, why isn't pork cheaper? Struggling farmers want help--and some answers
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Don't have a cow, man, but the network that Bart Simpson has called home for the past nine years is now betting its future on three new cartoon series
Sounding the Waters (The Arts / Television)
PBS explores the music along the Mississippi
The Fall of The King (The Arts / Books)
Volume II of Peter Guralnick's masterly telling of Elvis' life
Full Terms of Endearment (The Arts / Books)
A daughter comes of age. And a mother does too
Travels on an Ailing Planet (The Arts / Books)
An eco-conscious Marco Polo has sad tales to tell
Cubism And Fashion (Short Takes / Exhibits)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
May I Kiss You On The Lips, Miss Sandra? (Short Takes / Books)
By Sandra Bernhard
Duane's Depressed (Short Takes / Books)
By Larry McMurtry
Progeny Watch (Short Takes)
Beleza Tropical 2: Novo! Mais! Melhor! (Short Takes / Music)
Various Artists
Classic Arts Showcase (Short Takes / Television)
The Sopranos (Short Takes / Television)
HBO, Sundays, 9 p.m. E.T.
YOUR TIME
Tax cuts got lots of ink, but the overall tab will rise this year; here's why--and what you can do
I Get Mail! (Personal Time / Your Technology)
And the subjects range from the technologically sublime to the sociologically ridiculous
Try, Try Again (Personal Time / Your Health)
Another year, another chance to make your New Year's diet and exercise resolutions stick
Your Health (Personal Time / Your Health)
Your Money (Personal Time / Your Money)
Your Technology (Personal Time / Your Technology)
PEOPLE
People