Time Magazine Contents Page SEPTEMBER 27, 1993 VOL. 142 NO. 13

PUBLISHER'S LETTER 4

LETTERS 8

THE WEEK 15

MILESTONES 22

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MIDDLE EAST: Enough of Enmity

Peace sealed in a singular touch of hands

30

Speed Bumps Ahead: Obstacles on the road to self-rule

32

Interviews: Arafat and Rabin look ahead

34

HEALTH CARE: Choosing Up Sides

As Clinton delivers his plan, opponents sharpen their knives

34

Five Cases: How the plan hits home

40

The Political Interest: Will abortion be covered?

57

CLINTON ON CLINTON

The President talks about his on-the-job training

58

TRADE: A Tale of Two Jobs

How NAFTA would create better-paying employment

60

CRIME: A Fugitive No More

A straggler from America's radical '60s gives herself up

66

COVER: The Video Game Boom

Hold on to your joysticks! Hollywood, Silicon Valley and the info highway are on a collision course, and it's going to be a bumpy ride.

70

Too Brutal for Kids? Video violence

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BUSINESS: A Star Is Born

Paramount says yes to Viacom's Sumner Redstone

77

IDEAS: How Man Created God

A new book explains how God really is in the details

80

SCIENCE: The Return of Stephen Hawking

The famous physicist has a book even mortals can read

81

TELEVISION: The Fire Storm over NYPD Blue

Steven Bochco's controversial new cop show finally airs

82

MUSIC: A Celebration of Supertenors

Twenty-five years at the Met for Pavarotti and Domingo

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REVIEWS

TELEVISION Conan O'Brien brings a fresh face but a familiar style to late night. CINEMA Adorable Macaulay Culkin plays a bad seed in The Good Son. Into the West is a fairy tale of modern Ireland. MUSIC John Mellencamp's new album is part small-town twang, part urban soul and all American. Lord Byron, Virgil Thomson's last opera, is not Byronic enough. BOOKS A first novel by Frank Conroy needs a sound track.

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SPECTATOR: Born-Again Glitz

Manhattan's 42nd Street, where Bizarro planning makes sense

PEOPLE 95

ESSAY 96

Cover (clockwise from top left): Star Trek: The Next Generation/Spectrum HoloByte, Inc., for 3DO 7Interactive Multiplayer; Sonic the Hedgehog/Sega of America, Inc.; Voyeur/Philips CD-i -- Philips P.O.V.; Super Mario/Nintendo of America Inc.; Jurassic Park Interactive from MCA ( (c) Universal City Studios, Inc., & Amblin Entertainment, Inc.) for 3DO Interactive Multiplayer; Acclaim's Mortal Kombat for the Super NES; "Disney's Aladdin" for Sega Genesis, Disney characters (c) The Walt Disney Company

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