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A. Europe has weaknesses too. But with the elimination of the East-West divide, Europe is a continent that has suddenly doubled its size -- from 300 million to 700 million people. It has a high level of culture and enormous capacity for growth, particularly in those East European countries that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How A Superpower Can Avoid Muscle Loss: JACQUES ATTALI | 9/30/1991 | See Source »

What Your 1st Grader Needs to Know (Doubleday; $15) asks youngsters, among other things: What did Little Miss Muffet sit on? What does a stomach do? Which is the biggest continent? Who was Louis Armstrong? The second-grade volume advances to questions about Robin Hood, the Great Wall of China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Does a Stomach Do? | 9/30/1991 | See Source »

For his part, Milosevic claims merely to be toiling to preserve what he can of the old Yugoslavia. He can accept the departure of Slovenia, whose declaration of independence engendered a shorter military conflict early this summer; even Croatia can leave, yet only within reduced borders now being carved out...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Serbia's Land Grab in Yugoslavia | 9/16/1991 | See Source »

Still, some believe race relations in Britain are not as bad as they are on the Continent. "There, blacks are seen as second-class citizens with few rights or none at all," says Bernie Grant, one of four black Labour Members of Parliament. "In Britain, most black people are citizens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Racisme | 8/12/1991 | See Source »

Yet the country views its new challenges as especially dicey. Its postwar identity depended on the postwar system, which has come unglued. Mitterrand's ambitions for E.C. political union and a joint defense policy are central to his design of preserving France's status as the Continent's anchor. Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New France | 7/22/1991 | See Source »

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