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EXCERPT: In a new memoir, Ronald Reagan describes his dream of a nuclear-free world
In the first of two excerpts from An American Life, his forthcoming autobiography, the man who once called the U.S.S.R. an "evil empire" shows himself to be a stubborn dreamer out to rid the world of nuclear arms. He tells how he and Gorbachev, through five meetings and a prolific correspondence, built a rapport that helped end the cold war. -- Why he decided to run for President. -- The day he dodged death by less than an inch.
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WORLD: In the gulf, the pendulum swings back toward war
Bush dispatches an additional 100,000 men. Will Saddam get the message? -- An interview with King Hussein.
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NATION: At last a budget deal is at hand
After years of delusionary fiscal policy, a $500 billion deficit-cutting plan would force almost everyone to sacrifice. -- Why some taxpayers get a break.
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BUSINESS: An epic slump gives builders a bad bout of the blues
After a decade of frantic overexpansion, commercial-property developers are reeling from hefty debt and rising vacancy rates. -- Cries of price gouging greet Big Oil's big profits.
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MEDICINE: A revolution in making babies
Innovative laboratory techniques are conquering more and more cases of infertility, even in women who have already reached menopause. -- A mother donates her lung.
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LAW: Parental status is all in the genes
In a ground-breaking decision, a California court says that a surrogate who contracts to bear a child to whom she is a "genetic stranger" has no maternal rights.
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FOOD: A new bill covering truth in labeling
By 1993 consumers should find more nutritional information and fewer misleading health claims on virtually all packaged items, produce and seafood.
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RELIGION: Crisis in the priesthood
) A month-long gathering of bishops in Rome sought ways to deal with the declining numbers -- and quality -- of clergy. But discussion of celibacy was declared off limits.
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ENVIRONMENT: Rescuing a Stone Age tribe
The Brazilian government tries to drive gold miners from the remote Amazon homeland of the Yanomami Indians by dynamiting clandestine jungle airstrips.
4 Letters
17 American Scene
25 Grapevine
79 Science
81 People
84 Press
86 Living
93 Books
99 Milestones
102 Essay
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