COVER STORY
48
BEHAVIOR: When Is It Rape?
He says it was a date. She says it was a crime. Who can draw the line?
16
NATION: Gagging the Clinics
The court bars federally funded centers from discussing abortion
28
WORLD: Death of a Famous Son
Rajiv Gandhi’s murder plunges India into self-doubt and despair
42
BUSINESS: Pension Peril
Will yours be there when you’re ready to retire?
INTERVIEW Ethics watchdog Barbara Jordan keeps tabs on Texas
9
HEALTH First transfusions, now transplants: the many ways to get AIDS 56
ETHICS Tumult over a test that isn’t “color-blind” 57
LAW Are television audiences ready for capital punishment?
59
ENVIRONMENT Those sprays keep the grass green, but at what price?
63
IDEAS The last word on stuff for kids is Zillions 65
BOOKS Amy Tan and the new wave of Asian-American writers
66
MUSIC “Sampling” puts a new snap and crackle into pop 69
SHOW BUSINESS Meet Hollywood’s newest hero: the dead person
70
ESSAY Michael Kinsley fulminates in the doctor’s waiting room
72
DEPARTMENTS
LETTERS 6
GRAPEVINE 13
MILESTONES 57
PEOPLE 61
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