August 16, 1993 | Vol. 142 No. 7

Absent-Minded (The Week)

And Potatoes Don't Even Vote (The Week)

Dispatches: Searching for Jerry Seinfeld (The Week)

Searching for Jerry Seinfeld

Budget: Going the Last Mile (Cover Stories)

Health Report: Aug. 16, 1993 (The Week)

I Wish I Was in the Land of Cotton . . . (The Week)

Informed Sources: Aug. 16, 1993 (The Week)

A Casualty of Level-10 Frustration (Bosnia)

Blood, Threats and Fears (Bosnia)

It's decision time. Will NATO launch air attacks? Can the Serbs avoid being bombed by pulling back? Will the Bosnians agree to partition their country?

Forecast: (Space)

Meteor Deluge Astronomers expect a spectacular display in the night skies

An Artist to Plead for Art (Culture)

Actress Jane Alexander exits Broadway to revitalize the National Endowment

Car Thief At Large (Crime)

Mark Wills, the body cruncher of Bucks County, is still on the lam -- and may just be stealing a car near you

Hell on Wheels (Crime)

Car crime is no longer a matter of stealing parts but of taking lives -- and an American icon becomes less and less of a sanctuary

Billion-Dollar Blowup (Rockets)

A disastrous explosion means fewer spies in the sky and a giant hole in the U.S. intelligence budget