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For Gup, an investigative reporter with a taste for hands-on journalism, there was no question that to write about coal miners he would have to go into the mines. Two years ago, he logged 35,000 miles following the trail of illicit ivory for a cover story about the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From The Publisher: Nov. 4, 1991 | 11/4/1991 | See Source »

So why are aerospace engineers around the world scrambling to build the next generation of this billion-dollar white elephant? In a word: Asia. The booming market for transpacific flights is expected to help create a lucrative new market for a plane that can shrink long distances. By the end...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aerospace: Supersonic Boom | 9/30/1991 | See Source »

THE ART OF BABAR, National Academy of Design, New York City. Nearly 150 drawings and watercolors from the adventures of everybody's favorite elephant king by his personal biographers, Jean and Laurent de Brunhoff, along with art workshops for children, readings and a lecture. Through Nov. 3.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Sep. 30, 1991 | 9/30/1991 | See Source »

In July the eight-year-old war, which has mainly been a guerrilla conflict, suddenly turned into an even more bloody set-piece struggle. Tamil fighters, known as Tigers, dropped their usual tactics of ambush and evasion to launch a 3,000-strong force against a government base controlling Elephant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers | 9/16/1991 | See Source »

Jack Nicholson's best performance in the past five years? With all due respect to Batman and The Witches of Eastwick, it just may be a half-hour stint Nicholson did for, of all things, a children's video. He is narrator of The Elephant's Child, an adaptation of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bringing Back Storytelling | 7/1/1991 | See Source »

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