NATION
Race: What's in A Name (American Notes)
What's in A Name
The Mafia: Seems Like Old Crimes (American Notes)
Seems Like Old Crimes
George Bush: Back to The Party of Lincoln?
Bush makes a determined effort to reach out to blacks
Gloves for The Needy: One Heart Warms Many Chilly Fingers (American Ideas)
One Heart Warms Many Chilly Fingers On the Bowery, a Samaritan of the streets ministers to the old, the reticent and the shy
Miss America Wins Again
Bess Myerson went to extremes -- but not to bribery
Terror In the Night: The Crash of Pan Am Flight 103
The prospect of sabotage hangs like a pall over the crash of Pan Am Flight 103
WORLD
Arens: Mr. Hard-Liner
Middle East Saying No to Arafat
Shamir forges another government and rules out talks with the P.L.O.
Soviet Union Life in a Weary Land
After the quake, political unrest may rise in Armenia
HEALTH & MEDICINE
Food: Most of '88 Recipe of the Year: Eat and Be Well (Food)
Culinary comfort is the theme
STYLE & DESIGN
Design: Best of '88 A Compelling New Modernism (Design)
Avoiding ideology, the year's choices accommodate pizazz and gravitas
ALSO IN THIS ISSUE
Time Magazine Contents Page Vol. 133 No. 1 JANUARY 2, 1989 (Contents)
Vol. 133 No. 1 JANUARY 2, 1989
Time Magazine Masthead Vol. 133 No. 1 JANUARY 2, 1989 (Masthead)
Vol. 133 No. 1 JANUARY 2, 1989
BUSINESS
Disowning A Billion-Dollar Baby
Let's Make a Deal
For a guilty plea and $650 million, Drexel hopes to get a clean slate
Most of '88
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Theater: A Realm of Inspired Ritual (Theater)
Theater: Best of '88: Theater (Theater)
Music: Best of '88: Music (Music)
Books: Best of '88: Books (Books)
Cinema: Best of '88: Cinema (Cinema)
Video: Best of '88: Video (Video)
Critics' Choice: Jan. 2, 1989 (Critics' Choice)
Cinema: Hail The Epic-Size Hero (Cinema)
Show Business: Most of '88 (Show Business)
Show Business: Plugging Away in Hollywood (Show Business)
Companies push hard to get their products on the silver screen
Books: Savory Gambits (Books)
Books: Serpents in The Garden State (Books)
Video: The Pulp Message of the Week (Video)
Music: Voices From Another Time (Music)
A Gypsy band and Bulgarian choir spark unlikely pop interest
SPECIAL SECTION
Planet Of The Year: What Is Wrong With Us? (Planet Of The Year)
A Senator's impassioned call for action
Planet Of The Year: Biodiversity The Death of Birth (Planet Of The Year)
THE PROBLEM: Man is recklessly wiping out life on earth
Planet Of The Year: What on EARTH Are We Doing? (Planet Of The Year)
Planet Of The Year: Deadly Danger In a Spray Can (Planet Of The Year)
Ozone-destroying CFCs should be banned
Planet Of The Year: Global Warming Feeling the Heat (Planet Of The Year)
THE PROBLEM: Greenhouse gases could create a climatic calamity
Planet Of The Year: Hands Across the Sea (Planet Of The Year)
Rich and poor, north and south, nations must get it together or face common disaster
Planet Of The Year: Magnitudes (Planet Of The Year)
Planet Of The Year: Nobel for A Noble Cause (Planet Of The Year)
Planet Of The Year: Nuclear Power Plots a Comeback (Planet Of The Year)
But safety comes first in new reactor designs
Planet Of The Year: Overpopulation Too Many Mouths (Planet Of The Year)
THE PROBLEM: Swarms of people are running out of food and space
Planet Of The Year: Preparing for The Worst (Planet Of The Year)
If the sun turns killer and the well runs dry, how will humanity cope?
Planet Of The Year: The Good News: Costa Rica Guards Its Forests (Planet Of The Year)
Planet Of The Year: The Good News: Japan Gives Trash a Second Chance (Planet Of The Year)
Planet Of The Year: The Good News: Osage, Iowa, Counts Kilowatts (Planet Of The Year)
Planet Of The Year: The Good News: Thailand Controls a Baby Boom (Planet Of The Year)
Planet Of The Year: The Greening of the U.S.S.R. (Planet Of The Year)
As his public cries out for a cleanup, Gorbachev fights a pall of pollution
Planet Of The Year: Waste A Stinking Mess (Planet Of The Year)
THE PROBLEM: Throwaway societies befoul their land and seas