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The French poet Andre Breton, leader of the surrealist movement, once defined surrealism as the juxtaposition of the familiar with the fantastic. As TIME correspondents moved through the strange netherworld of the arms trade for this week's cover story, they reflected on their own surrealist experiences - sometimes comical...
At 74, Mircea Eliade remains one of the world's great authorities on the myths and symbols of religion. Teaching and writing (more than 50 books), he has always had a sympathetic ear for the exotic, and even erotic, spiritual quests of the young. In this candid autobiography, covering...
Another way to strengthen retirement benefits is to make a greater return on pension fund investments. Private plans, which control nearly $300 billion in assets, traditionally have been conservative in placing their money. At the end of last year, half was in common stocks. Now corporations are looking for more...
Yet even the U.S. faces severe problems. Exotic new bugs proliferate. From Texas to Nebraska, water is in short supply and growing shorter. With 400 million acres of farm land, the nation is losing 3 million acres a year to erosion and urban development. Meanwhile, world population keeps rising, and...
Business financial planning and word-processing programs, which can cost up to several hundred dollars, are the bread and butter of the personal software business. But more exotic programs abound