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Uh-oh. Elvis Presley fans are putting his stamp on willfully misaddressed letters, which, of course, come back stamped RETURN TO SENDER. Reason: address unknown. No such number, no such zone.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For a Song | 2/1/1993 | See Source »

Obviously there are still deep underlying trends, indicative of seismic- scale cultural drift. Assisted suicide, for example. Abandoning the elderly in their wheelchairs. Intergenerational downward mobility. But these are not the kind of things one would want to see spread around the world like Hula Hoops, stamped MADE IN THE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Won't Somebody Do Something Silly? | 1/11/1993 | See Source »

Al From doesn't look happy to be back in power. Bill Clinton's chief domestic policy planner for the transition appears to be under siege: the austere Little Rock office that From shares with two assistants is strewn with unsolicited faxes, dotted with little yellow Post-it notes and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Al From: A Public Policy Entrepreneur | 12/14/1992 | See Source »

But while the U.S. government spent $27.6 billion on civilian research last year, the largest annual investment ever made by any country, there is a growing sense that something is wrong with the scientific bargain. AIDS remains incurable, and tuberculosis is returning. The economy is floundering as sophisticated consumer goods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science's Big Shift | 11/23/1992 | See Source »

On the nearby islands of the South Pacific, by contrast, enterprising natives of the New Guinea highlands were clearing forests and using irrigation to cultivate yams, bananas and taro root. Coastal people were developing double-hulled ocean-going canoes and mastering the rudiments of navigation, which led to an explosion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World in 3300 B.C. | 10/26/1992 | See Source »

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