NATION

Mutually Assured Destruction

Eight months after impeachment, the defeat of the test ban proves that the air in Washington is still radioactive. And it's likely to get worse

WORLD

The Good News Coup?

Pakistanis exult over the fall of Sharif. But will military rule make the volatile subcontinent any safer?

BRIEFING

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE

In the Company of Men (American Scene)

An all-male college, once embattled, now finds that its gender is hip

BUSINESS

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Theater: Necessary Targets (The Arts / Theater)

Eve Ensler takes to the stage to push feminist and social-activist causes. Men are allowed too

Music: The Fire This Time (The Arts / Music)

Thirty years after he shook the world at Woodstock, Carlos Santana is back on top

YOUR TIME

Divided We Stand (Personal Time / Your Family)

As Hollywood keeps telling us, marriage isn't always a breeze. But do trial separations work?

Mr. November (Personal Time / Your Money)

In October, leaves fall gently, stocks fall hard, and investors lose their mind. Count me out

Wealth Valley (Personal Time / Your Technology)

A fine new book about the legendary Jim Clark shows how the engineers humbled Wall Street

A Racial Gap (Personal Time / Your Health)

Blacks undergo lifesaving lung-cancer surgery at a lower rate than whites. What can be done?

SPECIAL SECTION

It's Stockholm Calling. Oslo Too (Briefing On The Nobel Prize)

The honors go to the discoverer of protein ZIP codes, a laser photographer, two particle theorists, the father of the euro and death-defying doctors

Monday (A Week In The Life Of A High School / Monday)

PEOPLE

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