COVER

SOCIAL INSECURITY

THE NUMBERS DON'T ADD UP--AND THE POLITICIANS WON'T OWN UP. THE ONLY WAY TO AVERT DISASTER IS TO START CHANGING THE SYSTEM NOW

NATION

TURNING BACK THE CLOCK (Politics)

THE GOVERNMENT'S AFFIRMATIVE-ACTION PROGRAMS ARE UNDER SCRUTINY AND NOT LIKELY TO SURVIVE INTACT

PROMISES TO KEEP (Republicans)

CHECKS AND BALANCES-AND POLITICS-CONFOUND THE BRAVE NEWT WORLD

WORLD

DANCING AT THE BRINK (Croatia)

TUDJMAN'S PLAN TO EXPEL U.N. PEACEKEEPERS THREATENS THE WORST BALKAN WAR YET--UNLESS HE RELENTS

THE WEST IS WILD AGAIN (Insurgencies)

THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS FACED WITH LOCALITIES WILLING TO FIGHT FOR WHAT THEY BELIEVE IS THEIR LAND

Algeria: BLOODY DAYS, SAVAGE NIGHTS (Algeria)

UNDER OFFICIAL PROTECTION, JOURNALISTS GET A RARE GLIMPSE INTO A VICIOUS WAR THAT PITS ISLAMIC VIOLENCE AGAINST GOVERNMENT REPRESSION, ALL WAGED IN PRIVATE

SCIENCE

ONE BIG, BAD ICEBERG

A CHUNK THE SIZE OF A SMALL COUNTRY BREAKS OFF FROM ANTARCTICA, AS THE LONG-FROZEN CONTINENT HEATS UP

SOCIETY

COPS AND ROBBERS (Crime)

A SHOCKING MURDER HIGHLIGHTS THE CORRUPTION AMONG NEW ORLEANS' UNDERPAID POLICE FORCE

COPS AND ROBBERS-DUPE (Crime)

A SHOCKING MURDER HIGHLIGHTS THE CORRUPTION AMONG NEW ORLEANS' UNDERPAID POLICE FORCE

COPS AND ROBBERS-DUPE (Crime)

A SHOCKING MURDER HIGHLIGHTS THE CORRUPTION AMONG NEW ORLEANS' UNDERPAID POLICE FORCE

TECHNOLOGY

SPIES IN CYBERSPACE

CIA OPERATIVES NOW HAVE INSTANT ONLINE ACCESS TO THE AGENCY'S SECRET FILES

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE

BUSINESS

THE BANGED-UP BUCK

A RUN ON THE DOLLAR SENDS IT CRASHING TO NEW LOWS AND FURTHER REDUCES ITS ROLE AS THE WORLD'S LEADING CURRENCY

LAW

WHERE THE TORTS BLOSSOM

WHILE WASHINGTON DEBATES RULES ABOUT LITIGATION, DOWN IN ALABAMA, THE LAWSUITS GROW THICK AND WILD

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

FROM EMERALD TO GOLD (The Arts & Media Music)

AFTER THREE DECADES OF CULT STATUS AS AN IRISH FOLK BAND, THE CHIEFTAINS HAVE A HIT WITH HELP FROM MICK JAGGER AND STING

THE HUMOR OF BILE AND BITE (The Arts & Media Theater)

SUICIDAL URGES AND SEXUAL PUT-DOWNS MARK A TRIO OF SHORT WORKS BY DAVID MAMET, ELAINE MAY AND WOODY ALLEN

FRIENDS AND LAYABOUTS (The Arts & Media Television)

IN THE NEW, POST-SEINFELD SITCOM WORLD, TWENTYSOMETHINGS SPEND MOST OF THEIR TIME PRACTICING THE ART OF INDOLENCE

IN FROM THE COLD WAR (The Arts & Media Books)

JOHN LE CARRE'S IRRESISTIBLE NEW NOVEL DISPATCHES TWO EX-SPIES AND A BEAUTIFUL YOUNG WOMAN INTO LITERAL AND ETHICAL RUBBLE