Vol. 142 No. 19

NATION

Better Steve McQueen Than James Darren in Gidget (Chronicles)
The fashion world's newest paragon of cool seems to be Steve McQueen in The Thomas Crown Affair

Calling Gergen-San (Chronicles)

Chronicles (Chronicles)

Dispatches (Chronicles)
Clintonism: Trick or Treat?

Health Report (Chronicles)

How Much Cheaper Are HMO's? (Chronicles)

Informed Sources (Chronicles)

Inside Mogadishu (Chronicles)

No Thanks for the Memories (Congress)
A Senator's diary prompts questions of crime, propriety and privacy

Nurse -- a Sedative, Quickly! (Chronicles)

Splitting Headaches Better Be Covered (Chronicles)

State of Anticipation (Puerto Rico)
The Caribbean island agonizes over whether to seek admission to the Union

The Week October 24-30 (Chronicles)

Undiplomatic Parking (Chronicles)

Wild Like the Wind (California)
Forces natural and unnatural combine to destroy hundreds of homes and ravage six counties

Winners & Losers (Chronicles)

WORLD

"Yesterday's Man" Charts the Future (Canada)
After a landslide election victory, Jean Chretien faces separatism, a lame economy and a bare fiscal cupboard

The Crying Game (Northern Ireland)
After decades of bloodshed and tears, there is still no end in sight to Ulster's agony

War of Nerves At the Nuclear Brink (Diplomacy)
The U.S. tries secret talks to seek nuclear compliance from North Korea

With Friends Like These (Haiti)
A host of shadowy figures is helping Haiti's military rulers hatch a plot to sideline Aristide permanently

SCIENCE

Cloning: Where Do We Draw the Line? (Cover Science)
Researchers duplicate a human embryo, provoking cries that technology has gone too far

Cloning Classics

They Clone Cattle, Don't They?

HEALTH & MEDICINE

"Please Help Us" (Health Care)
Clinton finally presents his detailed health-care plan, but he faces an uphill fight, thanks to critics in Congress and increasing public opposition

Another Aids Teaser (Medicine)
France's Pasteur Institute touts a breakthrough that could lead to a treatment -- or disappointment

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE

Time Magazine Contents Page NOVEMBER 8, 1993 VOL. 142 NO. 19 (Contents)

Time Magazine Masthead NOVEMBER 8, 1993 VOL. 142 NO. 19 (Masthead)

BUSINESS

A Builder, Not a Slasher
The man who made Motorola a world-class competitor takes his talents to troubled Kodak

Remember the Deficit? (The Economy)
While the White House nibbles at it, there are others who would rather take a real whack

The Siren Call of Mutual Funds (Investment)
The lure of high returns has investors -- pros and amateurs -- plowing record amounts into funds. Both Washington and Wall Street are worried.

They're Hot in the U.S. But Even Hotter Abroad (Investment)

Warning: Ipo Mania Can Be Costly (Finance)
The sizzling market in new issues is encouraging lots of companies to go public. Small investors, beware.

LAW

Biting His Handlers
An FBI informant's secret tapes raise a troubling issue in the tower-bombing case: Did the bureau screw up?

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Clinton's Weird Guy (The Arts & Media Cinema)
A lively film about the campaign stalks a brightly colored political animal

Furthermore (The Arts & Media Books)

Furthermore (The Arts & Media Cinema)

Masters of Their Domain (The Arts & Media Television)
Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David are sitting atop the sitcom world. Here's an inside look at how they do it.

Not Dancing But Drowning (The Arts & Media Theater)
The same themes do not make this bleak work a Lughnasa

Sailing Off to the Past (The Arts & Media Books)
With his 16th novel about two heroes of the Napoleonic Wars, Patrick O'Brian is seeing his ship come in at last

Still Life of Anthony Hopkins (The Arts & Media Cinema)
In Remains of the Day, he brings power to an opaque portrait of an English butler

The Image Duplicator (The Arts & Media Art)
At New York's Guggenheim Museum, a splashy retrospective hails the ironies of Pop's cool and ever reliable academic

PEOPLE

Float Like a Butterfly, Sting Like...Ali (Profile)
His role model was the Greatest. Now Riddick Bowe is the champ to look up to: a heavyweight with a sense of mission, a puritanical streak and some solid punch lines.

Ringmaster and Clown Federico Fellini, 1920-1993 (Obituary)

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LETTERS

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ESSAY

Letter to an Isolationist