"I Know My Brother's Alive"

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)


Algeria: An Alarming No Vote
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


Breezing into The Future (Environment)
How can America curb its dangerous dependence on scarce, nasty fossil fuels? The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind.


Beating Breast Cancer (Medicine)
Hormonal therapy is more effective for a wider range of patients than doctors had ever dreamed


Giving Your Wallet a Workout
High-tech inventors offer a new crop of elaborate -- and expensive -- gear


Just In Time
A new atomic clock will lose a second, at most, by the year A.D. 1,600,000


Time Magazine Contents Page (Contents)
Vol. 139 No. 2 JANUARY 13, 1992

A Quick Fix Is Not Enough
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?


A Talk Show Without Egos THE CLASS OF THE 20TH CENTURY; A&E, Thursdays, 9 p.m. EST (Television)

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


Taking A Darker View (History)
The conspiracy theories reflected in JFK may not be persuasive, but they churn up a murky underside of America


The Bete Noire of Feminism (Profile)
Cultural iconoclast CAMILLE PAGLIA likes to throw punches, both physical and verbal, against smug formulas and codes of political correctness


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