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These posters by Soviet artists are designed to rally Mikhail Gorbachev's countrymen around his crusade. One notes the year Gorbachev came to power and began wiping away the grime of history that has dimmed Lenin's revolution. The other presents the current leader as maestro, winning a rousing "Bravo!" as he puts his own gloss on a score written by V.I. Lenin...
...saving small-town America worth the expenditure of more state and federal money? As U.S. cities face deeper problems, ranging from grime to gridlock, the rural option could become more important, or at least more appealing. In a recent USA Today poll, 39% of the people surveyed said they would prefer to live in a small town. (According to U.S. Census figures, less than 24% of the population dwells in rural areas, compared with 44% in 1950.) At the very least, says former Agriculture Secretary Bob Bergland, "it would be unwise for U.S. public policy to force people to leave...
...Rangoon, one of Southeast Asia's more dilapidated capitals, workmen are busily scrubbing years of grime from the curbstones. Newly painted red-and- white pavement glistens, and gardeners are trimming shrubs in Maha Bandoola Park, next to the Sule Pagoda. All that effort by Burma's seven-week-old military government is part of an official campaign to "Keep Rangoon Pleasant." The cleanup is an attempt to polish the military's tarnished image -- and that has doomed it from the start. "They think we will like them if they clean up the city," says a shop clerk on Merchant Street...
...program gets students to make an investment of themselves, so that they're not just helping another Third World country, says Wills, a Dartmouth graduate. "What they get is the friendship with these people. It's not just grime and sweat," he says. "That's as simple as that...
Fire Fighter Jeff Brand looks like hell. His unshaven face is covered with grime, his eyes are swollen and bloodshot, and his raspy speech is punctuated with third-degree coughs and sniffles. "I'm sick as a dog," he growls. The dense smoke on the fire line in Northern California's Klamath National Forest has cut visibility to a lung-searing 150 ft. It is eclipsing the sun like a primordial fog and slowly choking the solemn line of fire fighters. Brand, 26, from Kentfield, Calif., pauses occasionally on the steep slope to vomit discreetly in the woods. "This...