Time Magazine Contents Page
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WORLD: A country in exile, Kuwait plans to build a new and different nation
Can the country change after liberation? Is it worth dying for? -- The allies seem to shrink from paying their share of gulf costs. -- Democracy knocks in Eastern Europe, but is anyone home?
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BUSINESS: King Arnold has a hammerlock on box offices around the world
From Melbourne to Milan, Buenos Aires to Bombay, the world is into U.S. movies, TV and songs.
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NATION: Food and cash for the needy Soviets
As Moscow faces a winter of shortages, politics and pity propel U.S. aid in a historic gesture. -- Republicans pull back from playing racial politics as Bill Bennett exits. -- A Mafia don is collared.
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ENVIRONMENT: Is the planet on the back burner?
Fears for the biosphere are still strong around the world, but the expectations of Earth Day have given way to endless debate and procrastination. A TIME poll highlights the public confusion that has helped produce the present policy paralysis.
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MEDICINE: A Pill that gets under women's skin
Norplant, a new 5-year contraceptive implant, gains federal approval and kicks up fresh controversy about the uses and abuses of birth control in the U.S.
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HEALTH: Can electrical devices give you cancer?
A controversial EPA study reviews the possible hazards of electromagnetic fields. -- A major report strengthens the link between red meat and colon cancer.
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TECHNOLOGY: Playing God on a personal computer
Start with a lump of rock, add some flora and fauna and before you know it, your little planet's growing out of control. With a program called SimEarth, the whole world's in your hands.
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PEOPLE: It's official! The Trumps are finally divorced.
Donald and Ivana's jet-setting marriage has come to a close, but the question remains: How much dough will she get?
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CINEMA: Oscar gold in Christmas stockings?
Visions of Academy Awards may dance in the heads of three ambitious films: The Godfather, Part III; The Bonfire of the Vanities and the Robert De Niro Awakenings.
4 Critics' Voices
7 Letters
15 Grapevine
64 Ethics
64 Education
70 Milestones
72 Living
73 Fashion
78 Essay
Cover: Illustration for TIME by Mirko Ilic