Vol. 141 No. 10

COVER

Tower Terror (Cover Story)
A murderous explosion in the heart of New York City raises the specter of terrorism in America and sets off a feverish hunt for the bomber

Who Could Have Done It (Cover Story)

NATION

5% of X = $1 Billion. Solve for X. (Grapevine)

Bad Vibes (Grapevine)

Bosnia Airlift Is Set; Will It Do Any Good? (The Week: Nation)
A U.S. supply drop is praised, but critics fear a quagmire

Cooking Up a Political Storm (Lobbying)
The restaurant lobby is stirred up over entertainment deductions. Maybe too much so.

David Letterman, CBS (California Big Shot) (Grapevine)

Don't Fence Us In (The Administration)
For family ranchers, higher grazing fees are just the latest hardship to blow across the plains

Dynamic Duo (The Week: Nation)

Fire And Smoke (The Week: Nation)
A powerful bomb explodes underneath the World Trade Center

Hold That Sugar! (The Week: Nation)
Congress says it doesn't dare put stimulus ahead of deficit cutting

Rodney King (The Week: Nation)
Redux A jury impaneled, the second L.A. police trial gets under way

Silence And Sainthood (Grapevine)

Spilled Milk (The Week: Nation)

The Great Pretender: (Grapevine)

The Kids Down the Hall (The White House)
For the young, diverse Clinton staff, the tools of governing are R.E.M. tapes, PowerBooks and 100-page briefing papers

The Land Lord Outdoorsman (The Administration)
Bruce Babbitt aims to protect 500 million federal acres that have long been exploited for commercial purposes

Vox Pop (Grapevine)

Winds Of Change (Grapevine)

WORLD

A French Big Bang (The Week World)
Rocard calls for a new political constellation to replace the Socialists

A Good Maiden Voyage (The Week World)
Warren Christopher's Middle East trip produces more than expected

At The Boiling Point (The Week World)
India's government puts a lid on a planned protest by Hindu militants

Boris, Meet Bill (The Week World)
An April U.S.-Russia summit could help Yeltsin hold his enemies at bay

In The Crossfire (Somalia)
When rival warlords open fire, a TIME journalist, Somalis and peacekeepers get caught in the middle.

Sick of It All (Italy)
Probing into an apparently bottomless political cesspool leaves * the whole country feeling dirty

The U.S.'s Honeymoon Is Over ! (The Week World)
Coalition forces face the reality of Somalia's convoluted conflict

The Week World (The Week World)

Time To Bow Out (The Week World)
Canada's Mulroney makes room for a new Conservative leader

Uncivil Ceremony (The Week World)

WAR & TERRORISM

High-Altitude (The Balkans)
Help Clinton decides to air-drop aid into Bosnia, but the humanitarian gesture may turn out to be a high-risk venture with wide-ranging consequences

SCIENCE

Copying What Comes Naturally
Scientists are creating revolutionary new materials by imitating the weave and structure of biological designs

Eluding The White Death (Nature)
A narrow escape for five skiers lost in the Colorado snow highlights a record season of avalanches

HEALTH & MEDICINE

A Treatment for MS? (The Week Health & Science)
It's too soon to tell, but a new study shows tantalizing results

Lunar Mission (The Week Health & Science)
By stabilizing Earth's tilt, the moon may have made life possible

Rethinking Ru 486 (The Week Health & Science)
With Clinton in, the French abortion pill may finally make it to the U.S.

Sex By the Numbers (The Week Health & Science)

Troy's Legend Grows (The Week Health & Science)
Fresh finds in Turkey have the dimensions to be Homer's grand city

Unreliable Breast Test (The Week Health & Science)
In younger women, mammograms don't seem to prevent cancer deaths

What's A Short, Bald-Headed, Potbellied Guy to Do? (Health)
The list of risk factors for heart disease grows even longer

SOCIETY

Conflicted Custody (The Week: Society)
The Supreme Court affirms reproductive rights -- for men

Oh, What a Feline! (The Week: Society)

Outlawing Dr. Death (The Week: Society)
Michigan tries again to put the brakes on the suicide specialist

The Boss Is Back (The Week: Society)
Steinbrenner returns to baseball, but not as a kinder, gentler George

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE

The Political Interest
Getting Smart About Head Start

Time Magazine Contents Page March 8, 1993 Volume 141 No. 10 (Contents)

Time Magazine Masthead March 8, 1993 Volume 141 No. 10 (Masthead)

BUSINESS

Japan's Economic Red Tide Rises (The Week: Business)
Carmakers suffer financial woes only worsened by a strong yen

Miracle Drug: Only $350,000 a Year

Nice Work If You Can Get It (Jobs)
Fly-by-night job agencies are promising -- but not delivering -- fat paychecks in faraway places

Ouch!
Which hurts more, the shot or the bill? Now drug firms also feel the pain as Clinton blasts their prices.

Scaling China's Wall (The Week: Business)
AT&T joins the crowd invading Asia's biggest and fastest-growing market

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

A Complaint: Double Vision (Reviews Books)

Bill Murray in The Driver's Seat (Cinema)
Goofily charming in a hit comedy and silkily menacing in a drama, he perfects the role of Everyguy as superstar

Disorder And Early Sorrow (Reviews Cinema)

Few Bucks, Very Big Bang (Cinema)
A nifty, no-budget movie makes Robert Rodriguez, 24, the industry's newest bet for directorial stardom

Of Drugs, Porn And Soup (Reviews Theater)

Pushing Back The Frontier (Reviews Music)

Short Takes (Reviews)

Top of The Pops: A Symphony? (Music)
Poland's Henryk Gorecki has a surprise transatlantic hit with his hypnotic Symphony of Sorrowful Songs

Vitality's Signature (Art)
The drawings of Daumier powerfully capture the muck and detail of life

TO OUR READERS

From the Publisher (From The Publisher)

ESSAY

The Strange Burden of a Name