COVER

Attack of the Data Miners (Cover Stories)

High-water pants alert! The quants have arrived, but does anyone know what they're talking about?

The Secret Money Machine (Cover Stories)

Seven years after the crash, Wall Street has become a cyberwonderland that could be riskier than ever

The Markets: What's Going Down (Cover Stories)

It's perverse: the better the economic news, the more the markets dive. How long can the little guys keep their cool?

NATION

Clintonophobia! (Politics)

Just who are these Clinton haters, and why do they loathe Bill and Hillary with such passion?

Playing By the Numbers (The White House)

From health care to Whitewater, the Clinton Administration relies heavily on polling

Rich Man, Poor Man (Labor)

The reformist Teamster boss has a real estate horde that strains his blue collar image

WORLD

Breaking Point in Zululand (South Africa)

With free elections threatened by civil war, the government declares a state of emergency and sends troops into Natal

Mr. Inside Steps Forward (Mexico)

Smart but woefully short on charisma, replacement candidate Zedillo vows to protect the Salinas legacy

Well, Maybe a Nuke or Two (Diplomacy)

Acknowledging that North Korea and Pakistan have nuclear weapons, the U.S. redraws its line in the sand

SCIENCE

Lucy's Grandson

A fossil skull implies that humanity's earliest known progenitors belonged to a single, long-lived species

HEALTH & MEDICINE

Parents: Can the Juice! (Health)

Pediatricians report that too much of a good thing can prevent children under age two from growing

SOCIETY

RELIGION

SPORT

Men Will be Boys

They won two Super Bowls together, but Jimmy Johnson and Jerry Jones couldn't coexist in Dallas

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE

LAW

Building A Better Thug? (Prisons)

Incensed over muscle-bound ex-cons, Milwaukee wants to ban pumping iron among its prisoners

Doubts On Death Row

Amid charges of racial bias and irregularities in the jury room, a former Marine is executed

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

BOOKS: How The World Works (The Arts & Media / BOOKS)

Henry Kissinger's Diplomacy silences all doubt that he is among this century's most profound thinkers on international affairs

CINEMA: Nice Guys Finish First (The Arts & Media / CINEMA)

The studios score big with a crop of feel-good sports movies in which happy endings are never in doubt

TO OUR READERS

LETTERS

ESSAY