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The slalom is an acrobat's race of quick, subtle turns (less subtle, however, since the introduction five years ago of spring-loaded plastic gate poles that allow aggressive skiers to charge gates directly and club them aside with armored forearms). Zurbriggen is competitive in the discipline but has not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pirmin Zurbriggen: Super-Z Zips and Zaps Them All | 2/15/1988 | See Source »

For most of the group, the subsequent three-day excursion to Nha Trang and Dalat provides a calming change of pace. Route 1, the two-lane highway linking Saigon with Hanoi, dips toward and away from the South China Sea on its way 250 miles up the coast. The van...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Welcome Back to Viet Nam | 1/18/1988 | See Source »

THE CHILD IN TIME by Ian McEwan. This story about a girl kidnaped from a supermarket checkout bridges the gap between private anguish and public policy in contemporary England. A masterly work by one of Britain's finest young writers.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Best of '87: Books | 1/4/1988 | See Source »

While Managua challenged the rebels' claims and quickly regained control of the towns, the attack indicated once again that the contras were far from finished as a fighting force. Unconfirmed reports monitored in Washington said the guerrillas destroyed a fuel storage facility and two electrical stations in the town of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nicaragua Battles of Bullets and Dollars | 1/4/1988 | See Source »

Life is a struggle for Milagros San Buenaventura. To feed her eleven children, she sells kalamansi, a bittersweet native lime, at market stalls in the city of Naga, 140 miles southeast of Manila. At night she prays hard, begging for protection against disasters that may strike at her, at her...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines Praying For Time | 11/23/1987 | See Source »

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