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TITLE: TIME magazine
[The news-magazine of the century, with all the news, features, and vintage ADS! See FULL contents below!]
ISSUE DATE:
AUGUST 31, 1987 Vol. 130 No. 9
CONDITION:
Standard sized magazine, Approx 8oe" X 11". COMPLETE and in clean, VERY GOOD condition. (See photo)
IN THIS ISSUE:
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COVER: Those Asian American Whiz Kids.
Cover:
Photograph by Ted Thai.
COVER: Bright Asian-American students are the marvel of U.S. classrooms Just 2% of the population, they will be 14% of the new Harvard freshman class, 25% of Berkeley's. But the sky-high marks and superlatives are exacting a price: stress, a dropout problem among the poorer and less gifted, even the specter of anti-Asian quotas at the best universities. Still, this is the most impressive generation of immigrants' children in decades. See EDUCATION.
NATION: The Army's secret army, a tale of lofty goals but disappointing results Bureaucratic bumbling and feuding hinder the effectiveness of exotically named units with high-tech equipment, raising again an old dilemma: How can the U.S. prepare for unconventional war while maintaining democratic control of the military? - Did pilot oversight cause the Detroit air crash? A mystery deepens. - In Colorado, convicts learn to be cowboys.
WORLD: An American hostage goes free in Beirut after 62 days of captivity The return of abducted Journalist Charles Glass raises questions about whether he slipped away unaided or was permitted by his captors to escape. - Both Iran and the U.S. hunt for mines in the Persian Gulf. - A lone gunman brings death to a sleepy English town. - After years of permissiveness, the Dutch are now beginning to wonder if they have gone too far.
Economy & Business Franchising is hotter than ever. - Insurance firms face the staggering cost of AIDS. - Green fever can be deadly in Colombia.
Press His newer readers may not have known that recently retired Times-man James ("Scotty") Reston was the best journalist of his time.
Computers At M.I.T.'s dazzling Media Lab, researchers aim to create newspapers, movies and TV that can respond to individual tastes.
Books Columnist William Safire turns to fiction with a 1,125-page Civil War novel but is swamped by facts. - A powerful Joyce Carol Oates.
Medicine Are residents too tired for their own--and their patients'--good? There are proposals for reforming the way doctors are trained.
Living Was it a pray-in or a party? At sacred sites around the globe, New Agers gathered to celebrate the dawn of a spiritual era.
Music At the glittering Salzburg Festival, a controversial Moses acrid Aron and a gleaming Don Giovanni are the talk of the town.
Essay With letter writing a forgotten art, diaries passe and taping in disfavor, future historians may literally be at a loss for words.
Letters.
Religion.
Space.
People.
Food.
Milestones.
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