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Gorbachev knows firsthand what mankind can do to the environment. "I first saw the dangers in Stavropol, where poor farming practices produced sandstorms that carried away topsoil," he said during an interview with TIME. While in the Kremlin, he confronted one horror story after another of skies blackened by smokestacks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gorby the Green Warrior | 9/6/1993 | See Source »

"We might be poor," says Oprah Winfrey, "but we ain't sellin' our soul to the devil today." The cameras are rolling as Winfrey, a TV talk-show host who is said to earn more than $40 million a year, tackles her newest role, that of LaJoe Rivers, an impoverished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dispatches: Oprah Springs Eternal | 8/30/1993 | See Source »

During a break, Winfrey, dressed in the shabby blue housecoat of her character, also talks about casting. "Originally ABC wanted Diana Ross ((as Rivers)) ... Diana said she didn't want to do it because it didn't offer enough hope. I felt the book was reality," says Winfrey. "There's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dispatches: Oprah Springs Eternal | 8/30/1993 | See Source »

The late-night drawling room has never been so crowded: Jay, Dave and Chevy competing for viewers with Arsenio Hall and Conan O'Brien, Dave's NBC replacement in the late-late slot. The new guys are joining a high-stakes poker game where Rick Dees, Joan Rivers, Pat Sajak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Late Night With Just About Everybody | 8/30/1993 | See Source »

Before the Han dynasty, before Alexander the Great, even before Ramses, the first empire the world ever knew was built by a Mesopotamian ruler named Sargon of Akkad. He conquered and subjugated dozens of cities and villages between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers more than 4,000 years ago, forcing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mystery of the 300-Year Drought | 8/30/1993 | See Source »

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