Time Magazine Contents Page
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COVER: When the very technology that can save lives is only prolonging death, how should a patient decide whether to stop treatment -- or help death along?
In the last days of a ravaging disease, patients and their families face all but unbearable decisions. Is there a right to die? To commit suicide? To be killed on request? As the private dilemmas multiply, they have become the public province of interest groups, policymakers and the U.S. Supreme Court.
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WORLD: Can the techniques of democracy be taught?
Well-intentioned but slightly befuddled, American politicians rush to assist Hungary in its transition to democracy. -- East Germany's Modrow is the lamest of lame ducks. -- The contras and the Sandinistas balk at demobilization.
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NATION: For conservatives, the dilemma is what to do for an encore
Anticommunism was the glue that held the right wing together, but the Red Menace is fading away. So far, the search for an issue to fill the void has come up empty. -- The Political Interest: Michael Kramer explains why Bush's low-key diplomacy may be just right for the times. -- A two-fisted millionaire rancher turns on Texas voters. -- In San Diego the most potent triple play is O'Connor to Copley to Kroc.
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BUSINESS: The boom in corporate busts
Turnaround experts profit from the failure of companies that borrowed recklessly in the Roaring Eighties. -- Tiny Miramax Films sure knows how to pick big winners.
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RELIGION: A Cardinal stirs devilish debate
Despite modern theologians' scoffing at Satan, New York's Archbishop O'Connor tells of two recent exorcisms and blames heavy-metal rock music for spreading the kingdom of evil.
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VIDEO: The battle over TV in the classroom
Two of America's leading media entrepreneurs are trying to get teenagers more interested in current events. One wants to do it with commercials.
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PROFILE: Coach Pete Carril of Princeton
For 23 years the gnome of Old Nassau has conducted a seminar in human movement on the basketball court. Driving home his lessons, Carril molds underdogs who intimidate the overdogs.
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DESIGN: Catching the energy of American graphics
From campaign posters to Coke bottles, from movie credits to Mobil's flying horse, a rich, exhaustive show chronicles a century and a half of graphic arts in the U.S.
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ESSAY: Turning Mount Sinai into a tourist trap
Egypt's plans to build villas, hotels and restaurants near the site where Moses met God threaten an ancient monastery, the surrounding environment and, above all, the idea of sanctity itself.
8 Letters
12 Interview
56 Medicine
60 Food
71 Sport
75 Travel
82 Cinema
82 Milestones
83 Books
81 People
89 Show Business
Cover: Photograph by Ruven Afanador