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While East Europeans recognize their pollution peril, the effort to clean up the environment will inevitably clash with their desire to boost consumption of food and manufactured products. The revolutions against Communism were in part a reaction to a system that could not deliver the goods. The Paris-based International Energy Agency estimates that energy consumption in the region will rise 40% by 2005, as countries try to rev up production. Observes Polish Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki: "People are impatient with the lack of commodities. They expect quick results from...
...prosperity. The official culture is breezy too. A look at our most popular movies and TV shows suggests we are a nation of superheroes and pretty women, of Cosby kids and caring, thirtysomething L.A. lawyers. We make funny home videos and vacation in Disney World. And, at our peril, we let the rest of the real, dirty world...
...that the media refuse to take him seriously. There is little doubt that Mandela's words will continue to be those that are most closely scrutinized inside and outside the country. But the architects of any future political settlement will ignore the Zulu prince only at South Africa's peril...
Just as one of the grand traditions in science fiction is to be antiscience, warning of the dangers of ambition, so fiction of the supernatural often tends to be subtly antimagic. The underlying message in each case is the inherent peril in man's playing God. The two genres are cunningly fused in the rich and absorbing new novel by Clive Barker, a horror writer (The Books of Blood, Weaveworld) and filmmaker (Hellraiser, Nightbreed) who is branching into fantasy. While The Great and Secret Show is populated by a DeMille-size cast of pubescent schoolgirls, suburban worthies, seedy entertainers...
...switch reflects the growing peril of runaway borrowing. Last year 68,112 U.S. firms filed for bankruptcy vs. 10,622 in 1981. And the failures are getting larger. The assets of bankrupt companies totaled $67 billion in 1989, up 52% from the previous year. The 1990 pace could be even quicker. Since January the Wall Street firm Drexel Burnham Lambert (assets: $3.6 billion) and , the U.S. retailing arm of Canada's Campeau Corp. ($9 billion) have sought protection from creditors. They joined such major companies as Eastern Air Lines and LTV Corp., the third largest U.S. steel company, which...