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The Spin Top 40: The Most Vital Artists in Music, 1997

By Spin Staff

A photo album featuring Nine Inch Nails, No Doubt, U2, Oasis, Hole, Alanis, Beck, and...?

The Good Soldier

By Jonathan Franklin

Accused Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh went to the Persian Gulf in 1991 as an idealistic, highly motivated infantryman -- and came back disillusioned and paranoid. Now he and his military comrades tell Jonathan Franklin the untold story of Sgt. McVeigh, Desert Storm "top gun."

The End of the End?

By Celia Farber

The mainstream media has all but declared the AIDS epidemic over. But some experts wonder whether the new "cocktail" therapy craze is bad science and wishful thinking.

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