TIME Magazine April 24 1989 THE RAT RACE How and 50 similar items

SEE BELOW for MORE MAGAZINES' Exclusive, detailed, guaranteed content description!* With all the great features of the day, this makes a great birthday gift, or anniversary present! Careful packaging, Fast shipping, and EVERYTHING is 100% GUARANTEED. TITLE: TIME magazine [The news-magazine of the century, with all the news, features, and vintage ADS! See FULL contents below!] ISSUE DATE: APRIL 24, 1989 VoI. 133 No.17 CONDITION: Standard sized magazine, Approx 8oe" X 11". COMPLETE and in clean, VERY GOOD condition. (See photo) IN THIS ISSUE: [Use 'Control F' to search this page. MORE MAGAZINES' exclusive detailed content description is GUARANTEED accurate for THIS magazine. Editions are not always the same, even with the same title, cover and issue date.] This description copyright MOREMAGAZINES. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 COVER: THE RAT RACE. How Ameirca is Running Itself Ragged. Cover Illustration by Maris Bishofs. COVER: Workers are worn to a frazzle, families are frantic, but time refuses to stand still even for a moment Welcome to the postindustrial age, when labor-saving gadgetry was supposed to make our lives easier. Not a chance. These are the days of the time famine, when parents talk about sleep the way hungry people talk about food. Why do we work so hard? What is the cost to ourselves and our children? And just what would we be willing to give up to live a little more peaceably? See LIVING. NATION: Choking back angry tears, 16 House Speaker Jim Wright vows to fight charges of ethical misconduct As a bipartisan panel prepares to accuse him of violating congressional rules, the Speaker and his Democratic colleagues brace themselves for a knock-down, drag-out battle. . Hugh Sidey calls on Wright to step aside. - Are dull politicians the next big trend from California? - Abbie Hoffman, the antic revolutionary, dies at 52. WORLD: A wimp no more, Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari tackles corruption, drugs and debt But how much substance is behind the political show? - A vicious cult of witchcraft and murder is unearthed in Matamoros, Mexico, as police discover the remains of 13 victims, ncluding the body of a missing American student. - What's behind the Recruit scandal in Japan and why it may topple the government of Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita. BUSINESS: The FSX jet puts more strain on U.S.-Japan ties Opponents of the joint project fear it will endanger American dominance of the aerospace industry. - Exxon faces lawsuits and consumer wrath for its role in the Alaskan oil spill. SCIENCE: The flap over cold fusion heats up Some researchers claim that a breakthrough in nuclear physics has taken place, but experiments at other laboratories are yielding results that are confusing at best. TRAVEL: Having a wonderful time--in Harlem, New York, of all places The place does have crack houses, and whole blocks look postnuclear, but black Harlem is still a great place to visit. Beautiful old homes stand spiffily on Strivers' Row, the Apollo Theater percolates with Amateur Night every Wednesday, and churches like Abyssinian Baptist can renew the spirit of even the most jaded tourist. NATURE: Guarding nuclear submarines with dolphins The marine mammals have an incomparable ability to detect intruders in murky waters, but a Navy plan has outraged both animal lovers and former trainers. PROFILE: A larger-than-life Surgeon General C. Everett Koop is an outspoken First Doctor with pronounced ideas about how America should take care of itself. BOOKS: Getting to the (false) bottom of Orson Welles A biography trenchantly captures the outsize actor, director, illusionist and impresario of the self. - The dashing double-agentry of Kim Philby. SHOW BUSINESS: The Belushi story, onscreen at last The producers of Wired finally find a distributor--no thanks to Hollywood, they say, which feared the film's seamy revelations and closed ranks in an effort to quash it. Letters. People. Sport. Critics' Choice. Press. Milestones. American Scene. Cinema. Essay. ______ Use 'Control F' to search this page. * NOTE: OUR content description is GUARANTEED accurate for THIS magazine. Editions are not always the same, even with the same title, cover and issue date. This description copyright MOREMAGAZINES. 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Careful packaging, Fast shipping, and EVERYTHING is 100% GUARANTEED.