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...provide and what wastes it can accommodate. The poorer nations must make monumental efforts to remove incentives for people to have large families. This will require massive social change, including better education and improved access to family planning. With each passing year, it becomes more likely that the fastest- growing nations will be forced to adopt coercive measures, as China has, if they are to stabilize their numbers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Too Many People | 10/15/1992 | See Source »

...reality is that Latinos are becoming an increasingly important part of American society in many ways. Latino professors and Latino studies courses at Harvard would educate the community about the fastest growing minority group in the country...

Author: By Lilia Fernandez, | Title: Number One? Not for Long. | 10/14/1992 | See Source »

Phar-Mor, the largest and fastest-growing U.S. deep discount drugstore chain -- with 306 stores in 33 states -- sought bankruptcy court protection after firing president Michael Monus and chief financial officer Patrick Finn and taking a $350 million write-off. The company claimed that Monus and Finn embezzled $10 million and overstated profits, then sued its accountants, Coopers & Lybrand, for failing to spot the fraud. Coopers countersued, accusing Phar-Mor executives of providing false and misleading figures to audit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Slipping Beneath The Bottom Line | 8/31/1992 | See Source »

Next, Gore will travel across the Charles River to Thinking Machines, an East Cambridge computer company. Thinking Machines designs, manufactures and sells some of the world's fastest supercomputers...

Author: By Ira E. Stoll, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gore will Visit Cambridge | 8/11/1992 | See Source »

...Spangled Banner playing over the Bernat Picornell Pool but the strains of another anthem. And the man who lays claim to being the new Johnny Weissmuller, the new Mark Spitz, the new Matt Biondi, is a fellow from Volgograd named Popov, winner of the 50-m free and the fastest swimmer of the XXVth Olympiad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Swimming An End to Domination | 8/10/1992 | See Source »

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