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...freshet of environmental publications -- some old, like Greenpeace, some new -- is striving for a mainstream audience, feeding on the growing awareness of a planetary threat. "The world is going to hell, and people are reading about soap operas," scolds Doug Moss, founder of E, a year-old bimonthly (circ. 75,000), who sees his competition as "fluff magazines that I wish would go away." New titles like Garbage, Buzzworm and Design Spirit -- all aimed at general readers -- have joined Audubon, Mother Earth News and other more established journals that have recently increased their emphasis on environmental concerns...
...bimonthly based in Norwalk, Conn., publishes a mixture of opinion and news articles and openly encourages political activism. At the end of a story about whale hunting, for instance, readers are invited to lobby for legislation that would protect the endangered mammals. By contrast, Buzzworm, a Boulder-based bimonthly (circ. 75,000), shies away from editorializing. "We're the only magazine that doesn't take a stand," boasts publisher Joseph Daniels. Instead the magazine specializes in photo spreads of wildlife and exotic locations...
...move leaves Singapore (pop. 2.7 million), one of the Pacific Rim's most dynamic centers, as that rarity, a non-Communist country without some edition of the far-flung financial newspaper (worldwide circ. more than 2 million). The Journal's decision also marks the latest step in a long-running feud between the island republic and foreign-based publications in general about the government's right to reply to coverage. The circulation of the Asian Wall Street Journal was cut in 1987, when the paper refused to print in full a lengthy government letter about an article on a proposed...
...week's parliamentary debate over the country's economic destiny, many Soviet lawmakers could not tear their eyes from the newspapers in their laps. Here was Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the exiled dissident, writing a polemic about the nation's current crisis in the pages of nothing less than Komsomolskaya Pravda (circ. 22 million), the mouthpiece of the Young Communist League. The 16,000-word text was also printed in Literaturnaya Gazeta (4.5 million), which only five years ago berated its author as "that vile scum of a traitor...
...Post's plight was the latest skirmish in the prolonged battle for survival in New York City's fiercely competitive newspaper market, increasingly an oddity in the era of one-paper monopolies and bland corporate chains. Four papers -- the broadsheet New York Times (circ. 1.1 million) and three tabloids, the Post (504,000), the New York Daily News (1.2 million) and New York Newsday (230,000) -- managed to make it through the booming 1980s. But now the city's economy is in a tailspin, and the tabloids are being dragged down with it. "I don't think there's room...