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...plies the drearier streets of New Haven, Conn., drawing eager throngs like some dark version of the Good Humor truck. Four times a week, the "dope fiends," as they call themselves, line up to enter the vehicle. They identify themselves to city workers by their code names ("Carol Burnett," "Streetcat," "Wizard") and, in exchange for used needles, receive survival kits: bottles of bleach, bottles of water, clean needles, and condoms. They do this because they are terrified of the epidemic that is raging through their city. "Just because I shoot drugs doesn't mean I don't care about AIDS...
Cover: Photograph for TIME by David Burnett -- Contact; Press Images
...accolades, more than any of our competitors. Most, of course, were for stories or pictures that appeared in 1990, beginning with the Jan. 1 issue. Its cover story on Mikhail Gorbachev as Man of the Decade was chosen by the Overseas Press Club to receive the Hallie and Whit Burnett Award as best general-magazine article on foreign affairs. The Overseas Press Club also presented its Olivier Rebbot Award for best photographic reporting from abroad to TIME photographer Christopher Morris of the Black Star agency for pictures published on the British poll-tax riots and the Liberian civil...
...more endearing things about Fresno is its combination of optimism and self-deprecation: when it turned up at the bottom of a list of cities ranked according to "livability" during the 1980s, it went along with CBS's spoof of Dallas, the mini-series Fresno, starring Carol Burnett. Citizens, including the former mayor, took parts...
...Sleep with Anger--by Charles Burnett. In the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at 24 Quincy St. at 7p.m. call...