Table of ContentsThe Good News: Costa Rica Guards Its Forests SOVIET UNION Life in a Weary Land After the quake, political unrest may rise in ArmeniaGLOBAL WARMING Feeling the Heat THE PROBLEM: Greenhouse gases could create a climatic calamityLet's Make a Deal For a guilty plea and $650 million, Drexel hopes to get a clean slateDisowning a Billion-Dollar BabyBIODIVERSITY The Death of Birth THE PROBLEM: Man is recklessly wiping out life on earthMOST OF '88 American Notes RACE What's in A Name Gloves for the Needy One Heart Warms Many Chilly Fingers On the Bowery, a Samaritan of the streets ministers to the old, the reticent and the shyCOVER STORIES What on EARTH Are We Doing?MIDDLE EAST Saying No to Arafat Shamir forges another government and rules out talks with the P.L.O.Arens: Mr. Hard-Liner TIME magazine masthead Vol. 133 No. 1 JANUARY 2, 1989 Make Love Not War Bimbo Art Back to the Party of Lincoln? Bush makes a determined effort to reach out to blacksHail the Epic-Size HeroMiss America Wins Again Bess Myerson went to extremes -- but not to bribery Endangered Planet BEST OF '88 Reviews for Roseanne American Notes THE MAFIA Seems Like Old Crimes Rape on Film Serpents in the Garden StatePreparing for the Worst If the sun turns killer and the well runs dry, how will humanity cope?The Pulp Message of the WeekHoliday Displays BEST OF '88 MagnitudesFuror over Arafat Terror In the Night The prospect of sabotage hangs like a pall over the crash of Pan Am Flight 103Jackson -- Not a Problem BEST OF '88 A Compelling New Modernism Avoiding ideology, the year's choices accommodate pizazz and gravitasBEST OF '88 ''GOOD'' CHOLESTEROL What The U.S. Should Do Voices from Another Time A Gypsy band and Bulgarian choir spark unlikely pop interestThe Greening of the U.S.S.R. As his public cries out for a cleanup, Gorbachev fights a pall of pollutionA Realm of Inspired Ritual''What Is Wrong With Us?'' A Senator's impassioned call for actionTIME magazine contents page Vol. 133 No. 1 JANUARY 2, 1989 BEST OF '88 The Good News: Thailand Controls a Baby Boom Nobel for a Noble Cause MOST OF '88 Recipe of the Year: Eat and Be Well Culinary comfort is the themeSavory GambitsHands Across the Sea Rich and poor, north and south, nations must get it together or face common disasterDance of The Sugar-Plump Fairy Nancy Didn't Give a Damm WASTE A Stinking Mess THE PROBLEM: Throwaway societies befoul their land and seasDefending The Duchess OVERPOPULATION Too Many Mouths THE PROBLEM: Swarms of people are running out of food and spaceThe New Kid in Town The Good News: Japan Gives Trash a Second Chance The Good News: Osage, Iowa, Counts Kilowatts Plugging Away in Hollywood Companies push hard to get their products on the silver screenBEST OF '88 MOST OF '88 Deadly Danger In a Spray Can Ozone-destroying CFCs should be bannedNuclear Power Plots a Comeback But safety comes first in new reactor designs
