Table of ContentsLott's Trial Balloon Is he statesman enough to sell his plan for a quick Senate decision on Clinton?Is This Right? Who Has the Right to Say? A mother of octuplets, one already gone, says God has blessed herYour MoneyMay I Kiss You On The Lips, Miss Sandra? By Sandra BernhardThe Sopranos HBO, Sundays, 9 p.m. E.T.Lean Times on the Farm If hog prices are so low, why isn't pork cheaper? Struggling farmers want help--and some answersIn Fighting Trim In an exclusive interview, Netanyahu describes his fall-- and his plan to returnThe Fall of The King Volume II of Peter Guralnick's masterly telling of Elvis' lifeFox Gets Superanimated Don't have a cow, man, but the network that Bart Simpson has called home for the past nine years is now betting its future on three new cartoon seriesRussia If You Think Boris Has It Tough...On the HorizonBeleza Tropical 2: Novo! Mais! Melhor! Various ArtistsPlaying the Odds Health insurers want to know what's in your DNAYour HealthNotebookFixing the Genes Gene therapy, heralded in the early 1990s, then stalled by one setback after another, is finally starting to live up to its promiseGood Eggs, Bad Eggs The growing power of prenatal genetic tests is raising thorny new questions about ethics, fairness and privacyCoverDrugs By Design Thanks to genetics, the pharmaceutical industry is exploding with new ideasDNA Detectives Genetic fingerprinting is already being used to identify criminals. Can the rest of us be far behind?Who Gets the Good Genes?The Biotech CenturyTwo for the Low RoadLettersAll for the Good Why genetic engineering must soldier onTravels on an Ailing Planet An eco-conscious Marco Polo has sad tales to tellStealth Tax Hikes Tax cuts got lots of ink, but the overall tab will rise this year; here's why--and what you can doDolly's False Legacy There is more to cloning than mere science--and more to human character than scientists can discover in a person's genesTry, Try Again Another year, another chance to make your New Year's diet and exercise resolutions stickGene Maverick Craig Venter is a man in a hurry, and now all the genome mappers are operating on Venter timeThe Olympics Turn into A Five-Ring Circus Salt Lake City faces charges that it bought the games from the International Olympic CommitteeClassic Arts ShowcaseMen Who Would Be Bibi Other Israeli politicians can't stand Netanyahu, but the voters may still stick by himWho Owns Our Genes?Seed of Controversy Will this unemployed physicist be first to clone humans?Full Terms of Endearment A daughter comes of age. And a mother does tooSounding the Waters PBS explores the music along the MississippiA Very Public Trial for a Very Private JusticeCrime Hey, Pops, Remember The Crack Old Days?Your TechnologyProgeny WatchThe First Couple Bill and Hill: Once More On the Public CouchBrave New Farm The first commercial products bred by genetic engineering incur a backlash in Europe, where "Frankenstein" fears run deepContributorsWhat Ever Happened to the Class of '98? Fifth-Year-Reunion Alumni NotesConversation With TerrorPeopleI Get Mail! And the subjects range from the technologically sublime to the sociologically ridiculousBaghdad Briefing After riding out strikes, Saddam shoots backDesigner Babies Parents can now pick a kid's sex and screen for genetic illness. Will they someday select for brains and beauty too?Racing To Map Our DNA Competition from private labs has forced the Human Genome Project into a frantic rush to finish firstMilestonesCubism And Fashion The Metropolitan Museum of ArtSuccess Stories The verdict on the pioneering children of gene therapy: so far, so goodDuane's Depressed By Larry McMurtryWhat People ThinkCursed by Eugenics A belief that human intelligence could guide evolution led the world to concentration camps
