Time Magazine Contents Page

COVER STORIES

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NATION: A Safer World

Bush's stunning proposals please Gorbachev, but Moscow still wants to dicker

ALSO: The Democrats heave another sigh about 1992

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WORLD: Four Desperate Days

A diarist describes Gorbachev's ordeal during the August coup

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HISTORY: The Columbus Fuss

A debate about 1492 says a great deal about 1991

BUSINESS Today's pretty women represent a new breed of mannequin

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HEALTH Breaking the silence on incest 46

SCIENCE A 4,000-year-old man yields secrets from the Early Bronze Age 48

PROFILE Balladeer Raffi chants a new tune: Baa Baa Mother Earth

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BEHAVIOR A famous how-to sex manual gets a revamp for the age of AIDS 65

FOOD Boozeless beer is better and more popular than ever

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ART When modernism met the jazz age: a tale of three cities

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MILESTONES Dr. Seuss, the most beloved of childhood storytellers, dies 71

BOOKS For Scarlett, The Sequel, there may be no tomorrow

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ESSAY Dennis Overbye applies all the laws of physics to the automobile 74

DEPARTMENTS

LETTERS 4 CRITICS' VOICES 14

GRAPEVINE 15 PEOPLE 49

COVER U.S. Air Force photograph of the world's first hydrogen-bomb blast, Eniwetok, Marshall Islands, 1952