From the Publisher

By Robert L. Miller

Some summer jobs are just a way to earn money. But for 23 college students who are willing to brave the heat of New York City, it's also a chance to learn firsthand how we produce our magazines. Eighteen of our interns have spent the summer at SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, PEOPLE and other publications. Here at TIME, five labor right alongside their professional counterparts in different departments. Last month, as a reporter-researcher in the Nation section, Stanford senior Frank Quaratiello interviewed a survivor of the United Airlines DC-10 crash in Sioux City, Iowa, and is writing the Milestones section for this issue. Karla Bruner, a University of Missouri at Columbia graduate, has researched stories ranging from Cuba and Argentina to Burma and Greece for our World section. As managing editor of the Harvard International Review, Mark Suzman has come in contact with public figures like Jacques Delors, president of the European Commission. Now Suzman is broadening his experience on our International editions, where he has worked on an article about Gorbachev's trip to West Germany.

No stranger to deadlines, Alexander Sutton recalls having 30 minutes to decide which of 700 pictures from Louis Farrakhan's controversial 1988 visit to Philadelphia to publish in the Daily Pennsylvanian. Working in TIME's picture department, Sutton has been combing through mountains of film each week to find the right images for such stories as a recent look at the plight of the world's refugees. In our New York bureau, David Muhlbaum of Middlebury College handles reporting on subjects as varied as the prospects for economic stability in Argentina and the consequences of posing for Playboy.

What do our summer staffers make of the TIME experience? "TIME has such incredible resources," says Sutton. "Everything runs 24 hours a day." Adds Bruner: "There's something new every week. You never know what's going to happen next."