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...cannot remain a leading force in technology, industry and science unless it is in the forefront of space exploration. Throughout its history, America has been a nation of discoverers and achievers. If it fails to take the next major step in space, it will have given up an essential part of its national character...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: The Next Giant Leap for Mankind | 7/24/1989 | See Source »

...Chinese are studying in the U.S., one of the largest group of foreigners on American campuses. They represent a crucial element in China's hopes for economic modernization, but they have also had firsthand experience with Western political freedoms. All around the U.S. last week, they were in the forefront of protests against the repression in their homeland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fax Against Fictions | 6/19/1989 | See Source »

...Ocasio, who is president of the Puerto Rican student group at Harvard (La Organization) and spokesperson for the Minority Students Alliance (MSA), being in the forefront of movements and at the center of controversy has always been as natural as breathing and speaking...

Author: By Melanie R. Williams, | Title: Holding On, Speaking Out, Moving Up | 6/8/1989 | See Source »

...When you think about what the Jews did as leaders in the civil rights movement, in the forefront of trying to break the barriers, how do you account for the abrasiveness between blacks and Jews...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TONI MORRISON: The Pain Of Being Black | 5/22/1989 | See Source »

...freedom. Dominating American Protestantism, these churches shaped virtually every aspect of an evolving nation: its pioneering colleges, its 19th century novels of sin and rectitude, its capitalist ethic of striving and saving, and a world-conquering spirit that was shared by missionaries and entrepreneurs alike. Mainliners were at the forefront of social crusades from independence to abolition, women's suffrage to Prohibition, civil rights to Viet Nam protests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Those Mainline Blues | 5/22/1989 | See Source »

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