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Time was when the Midwestern grain belt had the manicured look of a suburban lawn. In summer, rows of corn lined up neat as picket fences. In winter the plowed earth mimicked swatches of felt brushed clear of debris. But as this year's planting season gets under way, an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's Ugly, But It Works | 5/21/1990 | See Source »

"Re-rows are uncommon as it is," said coxswain Travis Metz, "so we felt lucky just to have the chance at a second race. The starter definitely messed up the commands and I think a restart was in order."

Author: By Rik Geiersbach, | Title: Race Officials Overturn Harvard's S.D. Win | 4/16/1990 | See Source »

His face flushed with anger, Mikhail Gorbachev sat stiffly in the Kremlin's Hall of Meetings as the Supreme Soviet thundered through its most tumultuous session yet. For hours last week, speaker after speaker denounced the Soviet leader's request for sweeping new executive powers. Without using those precise words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LASHED BY THE FLAGS OF FREEDOM | 3/12/1990 | See Source »

(Editor's Note: The following are excerpts from the diary of a Harvard student who suffers from acute addiction to TETRIS, that bizarre computer game in which you piece together a succession of falling, irregularly shaped blocks into rows. The author of these memoirs wants others to learn from her...

Author: By Tara A. Nayak, | Title: Confessions of a TETRIS Junkie | 2/28/1990 | See Source »

Montana does card tricks, and the Four Horsemen -- Miller, Stuhldreher, Crowley and Layden -- are baffled. Elway conducts the Boston Symphony Orchestra, which has been trucked in for the occasion. The Four Horsemen start to applaud between movements of Debussy's L'Apres-Midi d'un Faune and are embarrassed. Stuhldreher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Super Bowl Field of Dreams | 2/5/1990 | See Source »

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