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Congress and the White House have been bickering all summer over whether to attach human-rights conditions to MFN status for China, and there could be another fight this fall over President Bush's recent promise to grant MFN to the Soviet Union. The very subject of the U.S.S.R. sends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America Abroad | 8/26/1991 | See Source »

EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY. Thanks to PCR, it is now possible to extract badly degraded DNA sequences from ancient sources and enlarge them like photographic prints. Thus far, PCR has been used to examine minuscule fragments of DNA taken from the brain cells of humans buried 8,000 years ago in a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ultimate Gene Machine | 8/12/1991 | See Source »

That the rest of the country has cause to be jealous of Utah is an oddity. Established by the Mormons as a religious refuge in 1847, Utah applied for statehood six times before it was accepted into the Union. The locals even went so far as to name a county...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The West Mixing Business And Faith | 7/29/1991 | See Source »

Even if ROBERT GATES shakes off the Iran-contra allegations that have stymied his chances to be head of the CIA, will his spy staff ever respect a guy who flunked Surveillance 101? When Gates was a young CIA trainee in the early 1960s, one of his early attempts to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier -- Screw-Up? | 7/29/1991 | See Source »

Jamison and Ailey first met in 1965, when she stumbled over him while rushing off-stage after an unsuccessful audition for a television special. Although the famed choreographer Agnes de Mille had discovered her and given the young dancer her first professional role, in a piece created for the American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Carrying On the Legacy | 7/15/1991 | See Source »

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