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COVER: Hunted by an angry faith, novelist Salman Rushdie is at the epicenter of a storm between East and West
With Khomeini's death sentence hanging over his head, Rushdie issues an apology but remains reviled by millions of Muslims. It is an extraordinary controversy, stretching from the dusty streets of the Middle East to the bookstores of America. -- What Muslims find blasphemous in The Satanic Verses. -- Salman Rushdie, born in Bombay, educated at Cambridge, is now a man on the run.
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NATION: A torrent of refugees from Central America pours across the Rio Grande, creating an immigration crisis
With U.S. policy in disarray, Texas becomes a giant way station for the latest wave of arrivals. -- The trial of Oliver North is finally about to begin. -- Secretary of State James Baker discovers that striped pants go on one leg at a time. -- California's "Governor Moonbeam" is back in politics. -- New Time polls: Bush is up, Tower is down, and the urge to control assault rifles is rising.
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BUSINESS: Despite daunting odds, plucky first-time buyers are unlocking the front door to home ownership
The fundamental desire of Americans to own their own property has inspired - some creative ways to reclaim the dream even as prices and interest rates continue to climb. While young first-timers must often settle for less than their parents had, most are delighted to be able to afford a home. -- Cleaning up the auto-insurance mess calls for a new system: coverage by the tankful.
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PRESS: When reporters knock on death's door
In covering tragedies, do journalists go too far? News professionals and critics gather to discuss one of the media's toughest assignments.
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PROFILE: Richard Darman is Bush's deficit doctor
The new OMB Director brings idealism, pragmatism and experience in six Cabinet departments to Washington's most difficult job.
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ENVIRONMENT: Boston girds for the great rat war
The city hires a Pied Piper to take care of thousands of voracious rodents that will be rudely evicted from their subterranean homes by highway construction.
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PHOTOGRAPHY: The camera has a happy 150th birthday
To mark the event, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston assembles a splendid survey of the greatest sights captured by a shutter, from Nadar to Walker Evans, from Western landscape to the world at war. It was a century and a half in which men and women looking through a lens remade the world in their own images.
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TRAVEL: What $360 million buys in luxury and fantasy
On Hawaii's Big Island, Hyatt offers the world's most expensive tropical playground for visitors in search of a vacation worth bragging about.
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BEHAVIOR: Why many poor children fare badly in school
A unique study shows that inner-city youngsters often grow up in homes where there are few daily routines. The children do not develop the sense of time that is needed in a classroom environment.
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BOOKS: A riveting successor to Ragtime
E.L. Doctorow's Billy Bathgate is the tale of a Bronx boy who comes under the vivid tutelage of a gangster named Dutch Schultz. Combustible reading.
1 Critics' Choice
6 Letters
10 American Scene
68 Education
69 Milestones
74 Technology
80 Religion
81 Theater
82 Cinema
84 People
Cover: Illustration by Mel Odom