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...Gorbachev is to have any political future at all, he will have to make common cause with Yeltsin and deliver more drastic economic reforms more quickly than he has ever contemplated. He will have to transform not only the government but the entire country as well. At his rambling press conference the day he returned, Gorbachev ducked the question of whether he or Yeltsin now holds more power. "We have been bound together by the situation," he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Upheaval: Desperate Moves | 9/2/1991 | See Source »

...from Sept. 4 through 18. The current show is a new version of the Chaplin-Thierree Le Cirque Imaginaire, which barnstormed Europe and the U.S. for more than a decade. Thierree, the show's resident jester and prestidigitator, and Chaplin, who does stunning acrobatics and uses modest props to transform herself into a virtual bestiary, credit audience reactions with shaping Le Cirque's evolution. Says Chaplin: "The circus, or vaudeville, must listen to the audience and try to meet its wishes or, even better, its dreams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aerobics for The Imagination | 8/26/1991 | See Source »

Nearly a half-century ago, Vannevar Bush's clarion call launched America into its Golden Age of science and helped transform society. His words still ring true today, despite the social and economic woes besetting the U.S. In fact, a vigorous science program, properly exploited by government and industry, might generate the wealth needed to solve these problems. To create that wealth, the U.S. must increase its investment in science, both by allocating more dollars and making certain that the dollars already appropriated are spent more wisely. "We cannot stop investing in our future for all the problems today," warns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crisis in The Labs | 8/26/1991 | See Source »

...icon of American ingenuity: Stumpjumper, the first mountain bike. A crossbreed of rugged utility and European racing technology, the Stumpjumper scurried where 10-speeds would have crumpled: down mountain slopes, across fields and over city curbs. The chunky two-wheeler, manufactured by Californian Michael Sinyard in 1981, has helped transform the % U.S. bicycle industry from a sleepy business to a $3.5 billion family-sport industry as millions of Americans mount up. Sinyard's goal: "Durability and comfort, a bike that is easy to ride...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sporting Goods: Rock And Roll | 8/19/1991 | See Source »

...your life in many ways will reflect the amount of effort you put into it. They teach that every day to their own children, but then they come out in public and talk about blacks as just victims who need redress. This is racial exploitation by white liberals, who transform this into their own source of power. We're being had by them, and we really need to know that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nothing Is Ever Simply Black and White: SHELBY STEELE | 8/12/1991 | See Source »

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