Time Magazine Contents Page

COVER STORIES

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WORLD: The Year Zero

Facing disintegration, the U.S.S.R. starts over from scratch ALSO: The Baltics go free and win foreign recognition

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NATION: Cold War's Aftermath

The Soviet collapse offers the U.S. new opportunities -- and problems

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BUSINESS: Where Have All the Jobs Gone?

Permanent layoffs are helping keep the economy weak

PROFILE Gus Hall, America's top communist, is keeping the faith

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SCIENCE Is biology destiny for gay men? 60

LIVING The Japanese try to relax 63

SPORT Carl Lewis and Mike Powell show records are made to be broken 64

BOOKS Anne Tyler's Saint Maybe looks humanely at religious faith

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CINEMA Now it's the good guys who get their comeuppance 69

TELEVISION When it comes to sitcoms, you gotta have a gimmick

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ESSAY Barbara Ehrenreich on the fate of the workingman 72

DEPARTMENTS

LETTERS 7

GRAPEVINE 15

MILESTONES 64

COVER Photograph by Anatoly Sapronyenko -- AFP