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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Patches of snow still glimmer on the craggy mountains above, but on the Black Sea coast of the Crimean peninsula summer has arrived. In Yalta the terraced stone walls of the old town are draped in purple wisteria and wild yellow roses, and the first wave of tourists has come to stroll among the palmettos, ! cypresses and golden rain trees lining the town's crooked streets. Though it was not far from Yalta that Mikhail Gorbachev spent three days under house arrest last August during the coup attempt, the resort is best remembered as the site where Churchill, Roosevelt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ready To Cast Off | 6/15/1992 | See Source »

...full knowledge of the SEC. But a recent spate of dubious transactions by corporate higher-ups has investors crying foul. Says Morris Levy, a Long Island, N.Y., securities attorney: "Shareholders are being blindsided by corporate insiders because the SEC is turning a blind eye and letting them run wild with impunity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trading on The Inside Edge | 6/15/1992 | See Source »

...only to Ronald Reagan, who retired to California at age 77. Bush's thyroid problem, his doctor's public concerns about job stress and his televised throwing up into the lap of Japan's Prime Minister have underscored persistent questions about the President's health. There was even the wild media speculation earlier this year that Bush would cite health reasons to make a dramatic exit from his re- election bid, opening the contest to the cadre of younger Republicans waiting in the wings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: There's a Little Extra Gray | 6/8/1992 | See Source »

...where animals can retreat from hunting and other human intrusions. Munn notes that the area has survived deforestation in large sections of its watershed and that the effects of industrialization in the surrounding states have so far been minimal. "If this glass is half empty," he says, surveying the wild diversity of wading birds, flycatchers and kingfishers feeding at the flooded edge of a pasture, "I can't imagine what it would look like full...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Mankind and Nature Get Along | 6/8/1992 | See Source »

...According to Nilson de Barros, president of the Society for the Defense of the Pantanal, the rivers that feed into its marshes are being polluted by gold mining, deforestation and agriculture. To feed cattle herds, some ranchers are planting exotic grasses that threaten the delicate balance of the ecosystem. Wild-animal dealers are going after such items as rare birds and capybara skins. But De Barros believes the problems will be kept under control. He stresses that the Pantaneiros have traditionally respected the area's riches, and they are beginning to realize that their home has great potential for ecotourism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Mankind and Nature Get Along | 6/8/1992 | See Source »

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