World BRAZIL
Donning army fatigues, Brazilian President Fernando Collor de Mello boarded an air force SuperPuma helicopter last week and flew over the dense rain forest of Roraima in the northern Amazon. The region is home to the Yanomami, a stone-age tribe threa...
The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power
By all appearances, Noah Lottick of Kingston, Pa., had been a normal, happy 24-year-old who was looking for his place in the world. On the day last June when his parents drove to New York City to claim his body, they were nearly catatonic with grief....
Bucking The Pro-Lifers
Roussel Uclaf, French manufacturer of the abortion pill called RU-486, has balked at bringing its controversial product to the U.S., out of fear that it will become the target of protests by the pro-life movement. Now, however, there is growing grass...
The Bubble Boy's Lost Battle
David's death may be a clue to a strange disorder
It had been his simple wish to walk barefoot on the grass and some dayto live normally in the world. For this hope David, 12, and his familytook the ultimate gamble: they traded the safety o...
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COVER: Once again, the U.S. is caught up in the hostage agony
After Israel kidnaps a Shi’ite leader, terrorists announce the execution of one American and threaten another. George Bush works diplomatic channels and ponders a military...
Business COMPUTERS
Sons of famous men often stumble when they try to follow in their father’s footsteps. That fate has befallen Frederick Wang, 38, son of Wang Laboratories founder An Wang. The younger Wang, who took over as president of the troubled company nearly t...
In The Driver’s Seat
It could have happened to anybody, anytime, but for Tadeusz Mazowiecki the moment was rich with irony. The tall Solidarity official had just wound up meetings with President Jaruzelski and Jozef Cardinal Glemp last week when his car sputtered to a ha...
