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Think small. Now think smaller still. For in the lilliputian wonderland that scientists have begun to explore, a grain of rice looms as large as an asteroid, a droplet of water as wide as an inland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Adventures In Lilliput | 12/30/1991 | See Source »

...called "friendly firms" abroad. He claimed to have seen a list of 60 such companies, all created by Western Communists. Last week Justice Minister Fedorov told parliamentary investigators the party had shamelessly used Western credits to shore up debt-ridden friendly companies in Europe instead of buying much needed grain or baby food...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Desperately Seeking Rubles | 11/4/1991 | See Source »

...opposition leader Irakli Shenghelaia. "By now, Georgia should have proved itself ready for investments, for international ties, for peace and order." Instead the republic's economy is stuck on the same old treadmill: too many fruits and minerals but not enough export-oriented industry. Georgia still relies on imported grain, meat, sugar and dairy products to feed itself. Supplies have become so short that earlier this month Gamsakhurdia forbade the export of vegetables, meat and building materials. Charges former prime minister Sigua: "Gamsakhurdia has already destroyed the few sprouts of a free market economy that were beginning to show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union: Paranoia Run Amuck | 9/30/1991 | See Source »

...from women identified as such. After careful examination of the brain samples, he found that the INAH-3 areas of most of the women and homosexual men were about the same size. In straight men this region was on average twice as large -- or about the size of a grain of sand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are Gay Men Born That Way? | 9/9/1991 | See Source »

...Union? Would the world see a medieval fragmentation, reversion to the old city-states of Kievan Rus and Muscovy, and feudal warlords with nukes? What of the 25 million ethnic Russians now intermixed with the newly nationalistic peoples of Ukraine or Kazakhstan? What would happen if the grain harvest proved as poor as predicted, the distribution system remained as feckless as ever, and winter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Soviet Union: Starting at Year Zero | 9/9/1991 | See Source »

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