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COVER: The chemists who claim they created fusion in a jar have either revamped physics or made a big mistake
Researchers around the world dropped everything when they heard the startling announcement that the nuclear process at the heart of both the sun and the H- bomb could be duplicated in a test tube. But after more than a month of trying to reproduce the original experiment, most laboratories have nothing to show. -- Fusion fiascoes through the years. See SCIENCE.
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NATION: A brutal gang rape in New York's Central Park stirs fears about a new breed of children without mercy
As the victim lies in a coma, experts ponder the causes of the latest source of urban fear: "wilding" sprees by alienated youths. -- On defense spending, the contras and gun control, George Bush is steering off the Reagan road. -- Inside and outside the U.S. Supreme Court, fierce arguments on a crucial abortion case. -- Spotlight on the working wives of Capitol Hill.
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WORLD: In a day that Beijing will never forget, China's leaders accede to student demands for a dialogue
As workers join the campaign for political reform, the government backs away from a threatened crackdown. -- Gorbachev purges 74 "dead souls" from the Central Committee. -- After a Prime Minister's downfall and a loyal aide's suicide, Japan ponders what's next. -- U.S. policy remains adrift as Washington predicts a rigged election in Panama.
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BUSINESS: Discovering gold on the golfing green
- Americans now spend $15 billion on the sport, and analysts predict revenues will double by the end of the '90s. -- Hoffmann-La Roche splits the world's priciest stock.
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INTERVIEW: A feisty actress on her trade
Ever outspoken, Roseanne Barr jokes about conquering the world, humor and the problems of growing up Jewish in the heart of Mormon country.
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ENVIRONMENT: Mobilizing for Alaska's cleanup
A month after the worst oil spill in U.S. history, the drive to repair the damage has a long way to go. Fortunately, Mother Nature herself is lending a hand.
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MUSIC: Two world-class conductors take their bows
Karajan and Previn step down, and another spin of the musical merry-go-round begins as the usual suspects are rounded up to fill their posts in Berlin and Los Angeles.
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BOOKS: The grim, funny, memorable Philip Larkin
There are no tears, but no comfort either, in the poems of Larkin, an Englishman who died in 1985. His Collected Poems is an event. -- George Kennan's diverting Sketches from a Life.
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VIDEO: Lucy, TV's zany redheaded Everywoman, dies
Lucille Ball was as deft and daring as Harold Lloyd, as rubber-faced as Bert Lahr, as touching as Chaplin -- and more ladylike than Milton Berle. In reruns, she is eternal.
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TRAVEL: With gobs of charm, sly wit and good cheer, the new Disney-MGM theme park brings alive the magic of make-believe
With a lavishness that the Sultan of Brunei might envy, Disney threw a premiere party last week in Orlando to introduce its lavish movie theme park. It was a way of telling Hollywood, "Hey, guys, the magic is back. And we brought it. To Florida." The new attraction at Disney World is the golden Mouseketeer cap on the head of Chairman Michael Eisner.
10 Letters
15 Critics' Choice
16 American Scene
65 Press
65 Milestones
89 People
95 Art
96 Religion
99 Food
104 Essay
Cover: Photograph by George Frey; inset by James Colburn -- Photoreporters