Table of ContentsHousekeeper for HireZirconia Futures Dive The original wizard of TV shopping struggles with a kickback scandal TIME Magazine Contents Page APRIL 26, 1993 VOL. 141 NO. 17 What Love IsA Retail Drop Gets Lost in the Spin Cycle March's consumer spending decline becomes an improbable political prop The All-China Summit Beijing and Taipei will talk about inching closer together SHORT TAKES Change of Signals Israel admits a new peace-talks player, but delay looms Who's Afraid of The Big Bad Bang?Aristide Offers to Deal But the military rebuffs political amnesty from Haiti's exiled President Coup de Grace The plotters who tried to overthrow Gorbachev finally go on trial If Redford Were Frank PerdueStealing the SpotlightNo Target Too Young A savage Serbian bombardment presages Srebrenica's fall THE FEW, THE NOT GUILTY Murder Is Their BusinessConcerned Response The Purloined Letters NIH scientists thought they could prove whether a biographer accused of plagiarism was guilty or not. They used a computer and raised more questions than answers.Amy Fisher's Revenge A grand jury says it's Joey Buttafuoco's turn to face the music Bomb the Serbs?Never Forget In all its grimness, Washington's controversial Holocaust museum is a necessary, civilizing memorialJudging It by Its Cover A murder victim's image sells books until a federal court says, ''Enough!'' Wasted Youth More students are starting to use drugs and sniff glue at an early age Is Nike Getting Too Big for Its Shoes? Concern is growing that the sportswear firm's lavish endorsement deals give it undue power and influenceA Possible Silver Lining in South AfricaFrom the True Hot HeartScores for Sex ONE SHOT: JACKPOT The Fire in Her EyesCHURCH SEARCH SORRY, TOM Iraq's Marshland Three Men in A HearseBattered-Spouse Defense Prestige Prize 1993's Pulitzer winners tell moving tales of war and loss REWRITING THE BOOK ON DINOSAURS Forget what you knew: they weren't necessarily cold-blooded or pea-brained, and may not really be extinctBEHIND THE MAGIC OF JURASSIC PARK A team of Hollywood techno-wizards set out to ''bring 'em back alive''Brave New Birth ControlThe Fungus Among Us Hold that fork! The mushroom in your salad could be a (very) distant relative VOX POPWho Was Left Behind? A newly discovered document fuels the argument over the fate of American POWsAirlift OverworkSpotting Good Genes Symmetrical whisker dots may be a reliable clue -- at least in male lions TESTING THE WATERS As states and the FDA crack down, bottlers of ''nature's beverage'' are awash in controversyWhere There's Smoke, There's FliersOFF AND HUMMING Driven by fear of draconian environmental laws, carmakers are finally getting serious about electric carsSave the Ozone! Man-made chemicals keep dissolving earth's shield against UV rays Commander HillaryAIDS from an M.D.? Not likely, say three studies of HIV-positive doctors and their patients Damned Lies and StatisticsNot the Mourning He Would Have Wanted Enraged at a leader's death, South African blacks go on a violent spree The End Is Near? Koresh says he will surrender when he finishes a treatise on the Book of Revelation, but no one is holding his breathSrebrenica Succumbs The fall of a fated town deepens the Balkans' tragedy and shames a spectating worldWhen Hate Makes a Fist When does a crime become a hate crime? The Supreme Court deals with criminals who add insult to injury.To Russia With Strings The Group of Seven pieces together a $28 billion aid package for Moscow The Shrinking Ten Percent A new national survey claiming that only 1% of men are gay has put the movement off strideA.C.L.U. -- Not All That CivilWHERE DOES THE MONEY GO? Vat Is This Thing Called VAT? Clinton's aides push a tax he said wouldn't happen this decade ''The President is not up to his job''NOW COMES PORKLOCK After ignoring cries of ''Too much fat!'' from the G.O.P. and voters, Clinton must break the gridlock and back down on his stimulus packageThe Recovery: Starting to FadeThe Political Interest Tap Israel to Help RussiaYes, No Progress Clinton and Japan's Miyazawa agree to improve relations -- later THE LAST HURRAH? No matter how many votes Yeltsin gets in next week's referendum, he will not have a mandateCries of Relief Two verdicts of guilty in the Rodney King beating case left a city -- and a nation -- hoping that racial harmony might begin to return to L.A.THE VERDICT'S AFTERMATH Fury in the Cellblock A riot at an Ohio prison turns into a tense and deadly hostage drama
