Vol. 139 No. 2
NATION
American Notes: California
Keep a Lid On It
American Notes: Escapes
Day Trip to Freedom
American Notes: Icons
No Euphoria in Astoria
American Notes: Primaries
Who Needs Cuomo?
Better Than Fingerprints (Grapevine)
Crime: The Deadliest Year Yet
Here's a category in which the U.S. still leads the world: homicides, with roughly 25,000 in 1991
Democrats Strong Message, Wrong Messenger
Jerry Brown issues a powerful appeal for a voter uprising against politics-as-usual. But that old "Governor Moonbeam" image keeps getting in the way.
Expeditions: My Search for Colonel Scharf
A TIME correspondent treks through the jungle 17 years after the Vietnam War in hopes of solving a mystery: What happened to a missing U.S. pilot?
Kissinger Associates Can Sleep Soundly (Grapevine)
Reading, Writing and Geopolitics (Grapevine)
The Mia Industry Bad Dream Factory
An ex-KGB man claims the Soviets grilled U.S. prisoners long after the Vietnam War, but the hunt for missing Americans is still mainly a hustle based on false hopes, flimsy evidence and bereaved famil
There's Gold in Them Thar Missiles (Grapevine)
Vox Pop (Grapevine)
When the Boss Fears a Backlash (Grapevine)
WORLD
The fundamentalists' big gain is more a protest against socialist rule than a mandate for an Islamic republic
America Abroad
The Low Point of the Bush Presidency
Europe: Surge to The Right
From the Atlantic to the Urals, politicians stir fear and loathing of dark-skinned immigrants
More Pain Than Gain
As controls are lifted and prices skyrocket overnight, Russians get a rude lesson in free-market economics
Russia Scrambling for the Pieces of an Empire
With nukes and navies up for grabs, not to mention the Bolshoi and the Hermitage, the republics try to sort out their inheritance
The Time Has Come to Help
World Notes
A Winter Wonderland
World Notes: El Salvador
An End to the Bloodletting?
World Notes: Singapore
Tough Move on Gum Control
World Notes: the Koreas
No Nukes -- Maybe
World Notes: Yugoslavia
Dogged Is the Peacemaker
SCIENCE
How can America curb its dangerous dependence on scarce, nasty fossil fuels? The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind.
HEALTH & MEDICINE
Hormonal therapy is more effective for a wider range of patients than doctors had ever dreamed
SPORT
High-tech inventors offer a new crop of elaborate -- and expensive -- gear
TECHNOLOGY
A new atomic clock will lose a second, at most, by the year A.D. 1,600,000
ALSO IN THIS ISSUE
Vol. 139 No. 2 JANUARY 13, 1992
BUSINESS
Tax cuts may produce a spark, but the economy needs long-term fuel. Why not a New Deal for the '90s?
Business Notes: Advertising
Broadway's Big Bottleneck
Business Notes: Auto Rental
How About a Bicycle, Then?
Business Notes: Hollywood
The Lion Fires Its Boss
Business Notes: Poultry
A Bird with An Attitude
Business Notes: Telecommunications
Reach Out and See Someone
Choose Your Remedies
Cover Stories: Why We're So Gloomy
The longest recession since the 1930s may pass by summer, but it will take years to rid the economy of debt and rebuild America
Money Angles
It's All a Confidence Game
What Do the Bulls Know?
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Critics' Voices (Critics' Voices)
The Case of Wagner -- Again (Music)
Israelis still protest the issues of his anti-Semitism and Nazi overtones, but his works live on and should be heard
SPECIAL SECTION
The conspiracy theories reflected in JFK may not be persuasive, but they churn up a murky underside of America
PEOPLE
Cultural iconoclast CAMILLE PAGLIA likes to throw punches, both physical and verbal, against smug formulas and codes of political correctness