The Recall Nobody Wanted to Write
Closed mid-October 1997 · On stands late October 1997
The Front
The Meridian Index: November
Turkey-fryer sales by region, the going rate for a holiday-week rental car in the Sun Belt, prescriptions voluntarily returned since the recall
The Girl Group Nobody Can Escape
A British pop quintet's stateside takeover shows no sign of slowing; a feature-film vehicle is already in production for a holiday release, and the trade press is calling the licensing revenue a small economy of its own
The Essay
What the Valve Remembers
The FDA asks that fenfluramine be pulled from the market after the fen-phen combination is linked to valvular heart damage; the essay follows a drug from prescription-pad routine to withdrawal
The Foreign File
Seoul's Sleepless Markets
As the region's currency crisis reaches South Korea, a dispatch from a stock exchange floor bracing for a bailout
The Feature Well
The City
Subject: Gay Men's Health Crisis opens the Tisch Building and the David Geffen Center for HIV Prevention
The Back
Books: A review of the fall's medical-writing titles · Art: Notes from the season's regional museum benefit circuit · Film: The winter's early entries, briefly