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COVER: From hero to hustler, Pete Rose symbolizes America's new national pastime
From casinos to sports books to lotteries, gambling has mushroomed into a $278 billion business this year. A short while ago it was illegal; today its biggest promoters are the state governments. -- Despite the Marine spy scandal, U.S. investigators now contend that Soviet agents did not bug the Moscow embassy code room. See NATION.
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WORLD: Fidel Castro cracks down on drug trafficking in the Cuban army
Is the sensational hearing a show for Washington, or does Castro have a personal motive? -- President Bush's visit to Poland and Hungary: positive changes -- and potential pitfalls. -- China's new General Secretary embodies the party line.
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BUSINESS: A string of oil spills triggers a cleanup campaign
Congress is putting pressure on the industry to prevent accidents and do a better job of mopping up slicks. -- The Time-Paramount battle heads for a showdown in a Delaware court. -- T. Boone's Tokyo campaign.
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LAW: A law-and-order majority flexes its muscle
The U.S. Supreme Court decides that capital punishment for the mentally retarded and for 16- and 17-year-olds is not "cruel and unusual" punishment.
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ENVIRONMENT: With new global clout and responsibilities, Japan needs to show a greater regard for Mother Nature
Faced with accusations that its aggressive trade policies threaten rain forests, the oceans and a host of endangered species, the superpower has launched a series of initiatives. But the country is handicapped by a shortage of conservation activists and experts. Do its actions signal a heightened environmental awareness or merely skillful public relations?
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BEHAVIOR: Has the gay revolution been a failure?
A provocative new book argues that most Americans still fear and hate homosexuals and that to overcome the hostility, gay men and women need to tone down and blend in.
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RELIGION: A fiery black priest defies his church
The defection of Washington's Father George Stallings and devastating parish closings in Detroit expose Catholicism's failings among U.S. blacks.
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PROFILE: The detached views of a great writer
V.S. Naipaul gives three cheers for the legacy of Western civilization, but not a hoot for the romanticizers of the Third World.
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DESIGN: Antoni Gaudi meets Frank Lloyd Wright
The quiet, gray city of Toronto gets a blast of flamboyant eccentricity in architect Douglas Cardinal's immense and curvaceous Museum of Civilization.
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ESSAY: Toad of Toad Hall takes a serious walk
Wild walking is the best, but all walking is a matter of style. It is an escape from thought, a liberation, and also a way of thinking, of setting the world astir.
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Cover: Photograph from Focus on Sports