Monday, Sep. 30, 1991

Time Magazine Contents Page

COVER STORIES

56

MEDICINE: Making Babies

New insights into the mating dance of egg and sperm offer hope for the infertile

22

NATION: Thou Shalt Not Build

A dispute over settlements roils U.S.-Israeli relations

38

WORLD: War in Europe

Yugoslavia erupts in Europe's first full-scale conflict since 1945

48

BUSINESS: Up, Up and Away

Firms race to build the next generation of supersonic airliner

INTERVIEW French writer Jacques Attali on how to stop America's decline 11

SCIENCE Is Biosphere 2 grand science or a grand stunt?

66

BOOKS Norman Mailer can still punch, but his new book is a weak jab 68

PHOTOGRAPHY Annie Leibovitz and Irving Penn see things differently 72

LIVING Montana -- the last best place in America? 75

BEHAVIOR Can the unborn learn from a "cardiac curriculum"?

76

EDUCATION "Cultural literacy" hits grade school 77

TELEVISION It's forward into the past for three ambitious new shows 78

CINEMA Comedy and rage in mono-movies by Tomlin and Bogosian

81

THEATER A stunning erotic thriller for the MTV generation

81

MUSIC What Guns N' Roses play is very good; what they say is very bad 82

ESSAY Philip Dunne on the value of a politician's tears

84

DEPARTMENTS

GRAPEVINE 19

LETTERS 5 MILESTONES 63

CRITICS' VOICES 8 PEOPLE 67

COVER Photograph by Lennart Nilsson