Vol. 142 No. 10
COVER
The Rocky Mountain home of cowboys and lumberjacks has become a magnet for lone-eagle telecommuters and Range Rover-driving yuppies. So far, it's been a booming good time.
NATION
NBC has recently threatened legal action if David Letterman takes some of the comedy bits he made famous on his NBC show and uses them on his new late-night show on CBS. NBC has made a fuss with CBS o
Executions in the U.S.: 1930-93 (The Week)
Health Report (The Week)
Informed Sources (The Week)
Map (The Week)
News Digest August 22-28 (The Week)
Paying Protection Money (The Week)
Raw Data (The Week)
Spotlight (The Week)
The 10 Most Predictable Guests on Jerry Lewis' Labor Day Weekend Telethon 1 Tony Orlando 2 Wayne Newton 3 John Davidson 4 Jack (The Week)
Jones 5 Norm Crosby 6 Freddie Roman 7 Casey Kasem
Winners & Losers (The Week)
WORLD
Former contras and ex-Sandinistas are both at war with the Chamorro government
Bright Life, Dark Death (South Africa)
A color-blind American scholar eager to hasten democracy loses her life to racial violence
Shamed By Their Nation (Nigeria)
Nigerians are fed up with rulers who squandered their patrimony and killed a dream of greatness
SCIENCE
Gorby the Green Warrior (Environment)
Moving from the cold war to global warming, the former Soviet leader searches for a new role
Lost In Space
A $1 billion satellite is gone, and so is another chunk of NASA's reputation
HEALTH & MEDICINE
Clinton may not know it yet, but his advisers predict job losses from health-care reform
SOCIETY
The feds charge Sheik Abdel Rahman as mastermind of a vast Islamic conspiracy to bomb, kidnap and murder
Who's Bad?
An age of innocence may be at an end as Michael Jackson, the Peter Pan of pop, confronts accusations that he sexually abused one of his young friends
Would You Believe This Witness? (Crime)
ALSO IN THIS ISSUE
In Sam Cohn's show-business realm, the good old days keep on ending
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BUSINESS
Geared to The Max
Why settle for ordinary sports equipment when you can get a high-impact modulus-polymer-visco-graphite version? Americans are gaga for gadgetry.
How Low Can They Go? (The Economy)
Falling interest rates have become the most powerful force in a balky economy
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Out of a son's death and a backwoods journey comes a Pulitzer prizewinning look at the dark U.S. past
Hell Is These People (Reviews Television)
Hot Damn,He's Good (Cinema)
Rancher, polo player, champion eyeballer -- and now the Southwest Bogart
Hurray! a B Minus! (Reviews Music)
Make Love, Not War (Reviews Theater)
Reality Check (Reviews Cinema)
The Grouch From Hull (Reviews Books)