Time Magazine Contents Page

COVER STORY

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CINEMA: Dynamic Duo

Thelma & Louise twists the traditional buddy movie into the talk of the summer

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NATION: The Delta Blues

The life and hard times of Mississippi’s poorest region

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WORLD: Yeltsin Looks West

How to deal with new leaders without alienating Gorbachev?

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BUSINESS: Trucking Toward Democracy

The Teamsters strive to put their Mob-ridden past behind them

SCIENCE How to spot a volcano — before it blows up 42

MEDICINE An unusual experiment may lead to an AIDS vaccine 44

HEALTH Lyme disease: those ticks are taking the fun out of summer

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LIVING The shrieking, whooping car alarm is a crime in itself

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SPORT What Michael Jordan and Leonardo da Vinci have in common

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RELIGION Protestantism is in turmoil over God, sex and sin 48

LANGUAGE A new dictionary is gender neutral but not word perfect

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NATURE Are zoos inhumane? 60

TECHNOLOGY Peddling Big Brother to the Third World 62

BOOKS Alan Dershowitz lives up to the title of his new book: Chutzpah 64

ESSAY Ellis Cose argues that quotas are a smoke screen 70

DEPARTMENTS

LETTERS 4

CRITICS’ VOICES 8

GRAPEVINE 13

MILESTONES 47

PEOPLE 67

COVER Photograph for TIME by Timothy White