Time Magazine Contents Page SEPTEMBER 6, 1993 VOL. 142 NO. 10

PUBLISHER'S LETTER 4

LETTERS 7

THE WEEK 9

MILESTONES 17

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COVER: Boom Time in the Rockies

The six states on the range have become a magnet for telecommuters, yuppies and just plain folk searching for the new American heartland.

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CRIME: Terror Conspiracy

The U.S. says a cleric led a plot to bomb and kill

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HEALTH CARE: Has Anyone Told the President?

He may not know that his experts see job losses from reform

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NIGERIA: Shattered Dream

Misrule has squandered a rich country's patrimony

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NICARAGUA: Hostage Game

Tit-for-tat abductions threaten a tenuous democracy

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SOUTH AFRICA: Death of an Idealist

Racial violence takes the life of a young American "sister"

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THE ECONOMY: Down and Down They Go

Wall Street and Washington bet on falling interest rates

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BUSINESS: Wild About Gear

A nation of gear-heads spurs a sports-equipment market

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SCIENCE: Lost in Space

Mars Observer vanishes, and NASA feels the heat -- again

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ENVIRONMENT: Gorby the Green Warrior

With the cold war over, he aims to defend the planet

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SOCIETY: The Trouble with Michael

The childlike superstar is accused of child abuse

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BOOK EXCERPT: The Fountain of Age

Betty Friedan dispels the negative image of older people

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^ CINEMA: Hot Damn, He's Good

Fugitive star Tommie Lee Jones is a Southwestern Bogart

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THEATER: From a Son's Death, an American Epic

The Kentucky Cycle weds family life to revisionist history

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REVIEWS

MUSIC Mariah Carey sings like an angel, but she needs some new material. THEATER A timeless comedy urges women to trade sex for peace. CINEMA Bad Behaviour is an improvised comedy about disheveled lives. BOOKS A lively biography of Philip Larkin, England's poet of gloom. TELEVISION The Wrong Man is sleazy, stinging film noir set in Mexico.

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SPECTATOR: Only in New York

Requiem for a show-business heavyweight

PEOPLE 75

ESSAY 76

Cover: Computer-altered photomontage. All photographs from Tony Stone Images. Mountains by Bob Thomason; Denver skyline by Glen Allison; hiker by Barbara Filet.

Digital imaging by Ron Plyman.

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