Time Magazine Contents Page
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COVER: They may make millions of dollars for their schools, but are America's student athletes really getting an education?
As basketball fans across the country fix their eyes on the NCAA tournament this week, TIME shows how the national obsession with winning and moneymaking is turning big-time college sports into an academic scandal that for too many players leads down a one-way path to broken dreams. -- A look at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, a basketball powerhouse in the heart of America's gambling capital.
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NATION: The most fateful national security decision George Bush ever makes could be on new nuclear missiles
But instead of selecting the MX or Midgetman, perhaps the President might be wiser to stay with the existing Minuteman. -- Why U.S. Jews are unhappy with the rigid policies of Israel's Yitzhak Shamir. -- House Republicans put some lash in their whip by electing contentious Newt Gingrich as their No. 2 man. -- The swain of cocaine: a DEA Don Juan made cases by making love.
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WORLD: El Salvador's right wing sweeps back to power, handing the Administration a daunting challenge
But the White House and Congress make peace over the contras. -- In a rare interview, Syria's President Assad talks about Arafat, Khomeini and the hostages. -- Mix a party girl, Members of Parliament and Gaddafi's cousin and, presto!, another British sex scandal. -- Amassing a superpower's arsenal, India asserts itself on the world stage.
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BUSINESS: Sound too good to be true? It probably is
Con artists working the phones are robbing consumers of $1 billion or more every year. So far, law-enforcement officials can do little to stop them. -- As the U.S. gulps more oil and discovers less, imports are taking off. -- Small farmers love him, but pesticide makers think he's poison. Don't mess around with Jim Hightower.
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LAW: A Supreme Court boost for drug testing
In two decisions involving railway employees and U.S. Customs personnel, the Justices give their first O.K. to urinalysis for workers directly responsible for public safety.
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PROFILE: An American fashion designer in Paris
There's genius and show biz, comedy and flirtatiousness in the designs of Patrick Kelly, a Mississippi college dropout who ranks with the best in the field.
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VIDEO: A new round of star wars in network news
CBS grabs Connie Chung away from NBC after losing Diane Sawyer to ABC. Prime time is now the battleground, and the competition for high-priced talent is intensifying.
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ART: Lots of raw talk, but cooked painting
A show at London's Royal Academy of Arts surveys the systole and diastole of innovation and tradition that shaped 20th century Italian modernism.
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SPORT: The sad ordeal of Mr. Baseball
Faced with allegations of illegal sports betting, Pete Rose sweats out an investigation of his gambling habits -- and the prospect of a ruined career.
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ESSAY: A sportsman takes angry aim at the N.R.A.
In an era of drug-based civil war, this once omnipotent lobby may soon be more of a liability to hunters than their ally and friend.
6 Letters
8 American Ideas
13 Critics' Choice
63 Environment
63 Milestones
71 Medicine
74 People
79 Technology
80 Books
Cover: Illustration by Theo Rudnak