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...world now knows that danger is shining through the sky. The evidence is overwhelming that the earth's stratospheric ozone layer -- our shield against the sun's hazardous ultraviolet rays -- is being eaten away by man-made chemicals far faster than any scientist had predicted. No longer is the threat just to our future; the threat is here and now. Ground zero is not just the South Pole anymore; ozone holes could soon open over heavily populated regions in the northern hemisphere as well as the southern. This unprecedented assault on the planet's life-support system could have horrendous...
With changing times, TIME's covers have changed dramatically. This week offers an excellent example: illustrating the vanishing ozone shield required the efforts of two photographers, a digital imaging expert and an art director who blended their work into a compelling design. But if many of our covers these days have become more conceptual to address broad issues, there was a time when we usually featured individuals, and assigned noted artists to paint them...
Last fall, I was so outraged by Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait that I volunteered to serve in Operation Desert Shield. I did this despite the fact that I was beginning my second year at the Business School...
...with the words "In God We Trust." Later this year the Supreme Court will decide whether to hear an appeal from the city of Zion, Ill., which was ordered by a lower court to scrap the city seal, consisting of a ribbon with the words "God Reigns" and a shield containing a dove, sword, crown and Latin cross. The device was adopted in 1902. The city argues that the seal is mainly a historical artifact, recalling the founding of the city by the Christian Catholic Church...
Though the word privacy does not appear in the Constitution, most people would probably agree with the great Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, who once identified "the right to be let alone" as the prerequisite of a tolerable life. But the fundamental instinct to shield one's personal affairs from the eyes of outsiders is always under pressure from the no less venerable human urge to pry -- and the snoops just may be getting the upper hand these days. Items...