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Admittedly, trees are just a stopgap. Unless a tree is used for lumber, it eventually dies and rots or is burned, releasing whatever CO2 it has absorbed. But since the rapid pace of change may be the greatest danger posed by global warming, stopgaps could be important. If nothing else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Planet Of The Year: Global Warming Feeling the Heat | 1/2/1989 | See Source »

LA.P.D. Detective Nordberg (O.J. Simpson) smells trouble. And gets it. Thugs drill him with lead, he gets wet paint on his jacket, a bear trap snaps on his leg, and a window slams down on his fingertips. Nordberg's partner, Lieut. Frank Drebin (Leslie Nielsen), solemnly swears revenge. But before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Stretch Marks | 12/12/1988 | See Source »

"I know what I'm asking them to go through," says Rossow, who is mother to 16 adopted children, many of them severely handicapped, plus three of her own. Apart from her more formal duties as a consultant, she serves the foster families as a sort of group mother and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foster Children with the AIDS Virus: Families That Open Their Homes to the Sick | 12/5/1988 | See Source »

A few weeks later, at Helen's house, the mushy things no longer suffice. The doctors have prescribed morphine for Denise's pain, and Helen has begun to sing, "Jesus loves me! This I know," as she rocks the child. "It's O.K. to go," she whispers. "These arms will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foster Children with the AIDS Virus: Families That Open Their Homes to the Sick | 12/5/1988 | See Source »

Despite the crackdown, thousands of Armenians still gather nearly every Friday in Theater Square, a small plaza tucked behind Yerevan's neoclassical opera house. Around 7 p.m., old women, their heads wrapped in shawls, begin to perch on the steps leading to the theater. Bands of youths, sometimes unruly, wave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Armenia | 11/28/1988 | See Source »

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