COVER

NATION

After the Revolution (Government)

In the turmoil of the GOP takeover, everything is in play, including Bill Clinton's stand on the school-prayer issue

Netwatch (Chronicles)

News, Culture, Controversy on the Internet

The Unwelcome Mat (Immigration)

As the Proposition 187 debate roars, the U.S. begins an intensive effort to seal off a 2,000-mile border

WORLD

A Bloody Taste of Civil War (Middle East)

Yasser Arafat answers the challenge from Gaza's Islamic militants with lethal force, raising fears of worse fratricide to come

SCIENCE

Dino Dna?

Bits of ancient genes turn up in some very old bones

HEALTH & MEDICINE

Hope for Unhealthy Hearts (Medicine)

A seminal Scandinavian study shows that powerful new drug treatments are safe and really do save lives

SOCIETY

Suicide Check (Behavior)

Advances in biopsychiatry may lead to lab tests for self-destructive behavior and other mental disorders

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE

BUSINESS

Greenspan's Rates of Wrath (The Economy)

The Fed jacks up borrowing costs, but the move is too much for Main Street and not enough for Wall Street

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

BOOKS: Teriyaki (Arts & Media / BOOKS)

Is Slang for Heroin Japan's wealth had to create some decadence; now a writer describes the fast-living youth in the land of the salaryman

THEATER: Arid Country (Arts & Media / THEATER)

Sam Shepard's first play in a decade is windy and barren

THEATER: As If We Never Said Goodbye (Arts & Media / THEATER)

Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard has finally arrived on Broadway. Like Cats and Phantom, it may not ever leave

OPERA: In The Lap of the Gods (Arts & Media / OPERA)

Welsh bass-baritone Bryn Terfel, at 29, has taken on the world's music capitals -- and he is selling out the house

BOOKS: Parallel World (Arts & Media / BOOKS)

A first-rate novelist adapts Dostoyevsky's life too freely

BOOKS: The Cyclone (Arts & Media / BOOKS)

On Coney Island, the lives of basketballers soar and fall

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