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To a casual visitor, the chill, choppy waters of Prince William Sound show little evidence of the disaster that struck on Good Friday 1989. Nearly 11 million gal. of crude oil poured from a gash in the grounded tanker Exxon Valdez that day, forming a slick that eventually reached into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alaska's Billion-Dollar Quandary | 9/28/1992 | See Source »

For now, the trustee council seems to be considering three broad areas of spending: land purchases to protect vital habitats, scientific studies and some type of endowment that would invest the money and finance restoration from the interest. Environmentalists contend that putting too much into an endowment would prevent the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alaska's Billion-Dollar Quandary | 9/28/1992 | See Source »

European modernism "primitivized" Johnson, as though a feedback loop were running from the Cubists' and Expressionists' use of tribal African art to a black artist in a Danish fishing village. "I myself feel like a primitive man," he told an interviewer in 1935, echoing the modernist founding fathers (Gauguin, Van...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Return From Alienation | 8/31/1992 | See Source »

NARROWCASTING: Targeting a particular group or constituency. Not Bush and Baker fly-fishing in Wyoming.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Word Watch: Aug 24, 1992 | 8/24/1992 | See Source »

It was supposed to be another space spectacular, the kind NASA used to pull off like clockwork: astronauts aboard the shuttle Atlantis had plans to dangle a half-ton satellite on a 20.1-km (12 1/2-mile) tether, forming the biggest single orbiting object in history. But like so many of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Go on the Space Shuttle Yo-Yo | 8/17/1992 | See Source »

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