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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Life is sweet in Willy Loman's front yard. Willy is a top-notch traveling salesman, his son Biff is an up-and-coming high school football hero, and his wife and second son stand basking in the warmth of their American Dream. It's too bad we have to go inside...

Author: By Kelly A. Matthews, | Title: Death of the American Dream | 12/8/1989 | See Source »

...last week, The Mound was gone. But now, as of the last few days, Son of Mound is beginning to grow...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: National Debt and Hair Loss | 12/7/1989 | See Source »

...Hraoui, 59, is a wealthy landowner who has good contacts with Lebanese Muslims. He promptly appointed a Cabinet of national reconciliation with representatives from the country's seven main sects, a major accomplishment. "Of course the Deputies are frightened," said Boutros Harb, a Christian Deputy. "But courage is the son of fear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lebanon A Bomb Aimed at Peace | 12/4/1989 | See Source »

Future II opens with a deceptively simple errand to run. Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd) wheels up to Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) in that lovable time machine (a goofily customized DeLorean) with bad news: Marty's son -- not yet even a gleam in his father's eye -- is in trouble in the year 2015, and there is just enough time to save him from a life of crime. The dauntless duo, accompanied, of course, by Marty's girlfriend Jennifer (Elizabeth Shue), must head off to give future history a quick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: More Travels with Marty | 12/4/1989 | See Source »

...self-described economist, philosopher and teacher, Rifkin grew up in Chicago, the son of a plastic-bag manufacturer. It was in the late 1960s that Rifkin -- then a student at the Wharton School of Finance, where he was locally famed as both party animal and class president -- decided to become a professional protester. His conversion to the antiwar movement wasn't triggered by emotionalism or peer pressure. He immersed himself in the history of Viet Nam and emerged convinced that America's leaders were dangerously ignorant about Southeast Asia. Did it strike him as odd that he claimed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Most Hated Man In Science: JEREMY RIFKIN | 12/4/1989 | See Source »

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