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The scene will be familiar and, partly for just that reason, comforting. The two Presidents will take their seats at a table in the St. Vladimir Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace and sign a treaty concluding a nine-year negotiation known as the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks. Television will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mikhail Gorbachev and George Bush: The Summit Goodfellas | 8/5/1991 | See Source »

Thirty-nine nations are negotiating in Geneva to draft a treaty banning production, use or stockpiling of chemical weapons. But verification will probably be frustrating. Chemical weapons are ridiculously easy to make; even a chemical used in ink for ball-point pens can readily be treated to form mustard gas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Disarmament: How to Hide an A-Bomb | 7/8/1991 | See Source »

Peddling perfume at gas stations? The idea seems as silly as selling caviar at Burger King. Yet for four foolish years, France's Societe Bic, maker of disposable pens, razors and cigarette lighters, sought to extend its throwaway empire to the epitome of upscale sophistication: French perfume and cologne. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRODUCT FAILURES Scents and Sensibility | 5/20/1991 | See Source »

I stuffed the mess in a garbage can, but that didn't make me feel any better: The the next morning I breakfasted on Frosted Flakes, each ounce of which was individually packaged in small cardboard boxes with wax paper liners. Later I ripped through the plastic wrapper of my...

Author: By Joshua W. Shenk, | Title: An Environmentalist's Angst | 3/20/1991 | See Source »

These are only some of the assertions of The Beauty Myth (Morrow; $21.95), a provocative work by San Francisco-born Naomi Wolf, 28, that is being published in the U.S. this spring. Already, and as might be expected, reaction is divided. Fans of the work call it daring and disturbing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bad Side of Looking Good | 3/4/1991 | See Source »

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