Time Magazine Contents Page OCTOBER 11, 1993 VOL. 142 NO. 15

LETTER TO OUR READERS 4

LETTERS 6

THE WEEK 17

MILESTONES 25

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HEALTH CARE: Prescription for Trouble

Doctors go on alert as they challenge Clinton's reforms

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CONGRESS: Second Opinions

The health-care debate turns personal

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THE CABINET: Brown Fights Back

The Commerce Secretary refutes a charge of bribery

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WACO: Tripped Up by Lies

A devastating report details official ineptitude and deception

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THE POLITICAL INTEREST: Clinton's Foreign Policy

What they say isn't what the world is getting

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CORRUPTION: Cops Who Are Robbers

How graft has changed police departments across the nation

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RUSSIA: Decision Time for Yeltsin

Will he quell parliament by force, or refrain and lose face?

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GEORGIA: Big Bad Neighbor

How Russia flexes its muscles in former Soviet republics

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INDIA: The Rattle of Death

Entire villages are wiped out in a gigantic temblor

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CRIME: Taming the Killers

A Texas program tries to teach remorse -- and save lives

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ETHICS: An Education in Death

Who must comply with a request not to resuscitate a child?

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BEHAVIOR: Feeling Good with Prozac

Can happiness -- and personality -- come packaged in a pill?

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BUSINESS: Blockbuster Man

Video king Wayne Huizenga joins the Paramount tug-of-war

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COVER: Life's Tempestuous Origins

Under the hellish skies of a planet menaced by comets and asteroids, life evolved much faster than scientists once believed. The raw materials may have come from outer space.

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ART: A Paler Shade of White

Robert Ryman practices a nuanced, narrow Minimalism

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MUSIC: Opera's Siberian Express

Baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky triumphs in his U.S. debut

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CINEMA: A Sweet and Scary Holiday Treat

The Nightmare Before Christmas is a fantasy fun house

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REVIEWS

TELEVISION A supersub swamps Superman in the sci-fi battle of the season. I'll Fly Away's two-hour finale on PBS is disappointingly stilted. CINEMA Robert De Niro makes a solid directorial debut with A Bronx Tale. MUSIC On her new album, Emmylou Harris finds God. BOOKS Old Friends is a wry, uplifting look at aging. James Dickey goes on a novelistic flight from civilization.

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POP MUSIC: The Return of, Yes, Abba

This time, to love them, you may not have to like them

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PEOPLE

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SPECTATOR: Volunteering for Abuse

To claim 15 minutes of fame, people will do anything

Computer photomontage by Dan McCoy/Rainbow

Additional photography by T.J. Florian

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