Vol. 142 No. 4

NATION

Dispatches (The Week)
Policy Wonks in Paradise

Health Report (The Week)

Informed Sources (The Week)

Japanese Impolitics (The Week)

News Digest July 11-17 (The Week)

Rogergram Our Periodic Update on the First Half Brother (The Week)

The Week (The Week)

The Week (The Week)

Vatican Studios? (The Week)

Vox Pop (The Week)

Wine And Cheese Liberal -- At Taxpayers' Expense! (The Week)

Winners & Losers (The Week)

WORLD

A City Without Hope (Bosnia)

Peacemaking War (Somalia)
The drive to punish a renegade warlord pits allies in the blue-helmet force against one another

WAR & TERRORISM

Then There Was Nunn (The Military)
After six months of negotiations and wrangling over language, the Administration fashions a gay compromise -- but there's trouble ahead

Today Los Angeles, Tomorrow . . . (Terrorism)
An alleged plot by white supremacists to start a race war is foiled

SCIENCE

A Playwright's Insight -- and Warning
Tolins' play, The Twilight of the Golds, is running at Washington's Kennedy Center and headed for Broadway.

Born Gay?
Studies of family trees and DNA make the case that male homosexuality is in the genes

HEALTH & MEDICINE

Cake Eater's Dream? (Health)
Not quite. But a new diet drug does seem to cut the fat.

SOCIETY

Burn Thy Neighbor (Crime)
Where can a child molester go after serving time? Not home

It's All In the Lie (Behavior)
Cheats on the links are cheats on the job

RELIGION

"Diss" Is the Word of the Lord
Bibles try to get hip with a newfangled version for every niche in the market

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE

After the Deluge: Health Hazards (Cover Disasters)

Choose Your Poison (Drugs)
While the government boasts that drug use has fallen, the range of intoxicants has increased, ensnaring a new generation

Flood, Sweat and Tears (Cover Disasters)
Driven by incessant, violent rains, a monster deluge tears a watery swath from Minnesota to Missouri

How Necessary Is PBS? (Spectator)
After 25 years, the mission seems muddled, the programs redundant

If You Think the Weather Is Bad . . . (Cover Disasters)

Levees: Do They Work Too Well? (Cover Disasters)

Money Angles
A Tax Increase You Can Avoid

The Political Interest
DON'T SETTLE FOR HYPOCRISY

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BUSINESS

Caught with A Smoking Gun?

Motown Turns a Corner
Surprise! Detroit is winning back market share from the Japanese, and making money to boot

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

A Hollywood Opera Noir (Reviews Theater)

A Hot-Tub Big Chill (Reviews Television)

An Outlaw Who Loved Laws (Art)
France's Jean Dubuffet proclaimed himself a raw radical, but a new show displays his ease with nuance and tradition

Attention Tv Shoppers (Video)
A merger of the two largest home-shopping channels signals a new phase in a fast-growing industry

Damp Fireworks (Reviews Books)

Love N The Hood (Reviews Cinema)

Pushed Off The Tightrope (Reviews Books)

Street Scene, Summer '93 (Reviews Music)

TO OUR READERS

From the Pubisher (From The Pubisher)

ESSAY

The Immaculate Intervention