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COVER: With a new prime-time show about to debut, Diane Sawyer is hot. But are stars like her upstaging the news?
She has it all -- blond-haired good looks, on-camera charisma and a journalistic resume that stretches from Three Mile Island to 60 Minutes. No wonder Sawyer has made it to the top. But her skillful mix of style and substance raises questions about the growing impact of stars in TV news. Are these high-paid personalities worth the money? More important, do they deserve our trust?
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NATION: A sweeping study finds that black progress toward equality has come to a halt
The most authoritative survey of race relations in a generation, A Common Destiny concludes that white resistance and a stagnant economy have slowed the fight for integration.
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WORLD: Angry voters in Japan warn the ruling party to clean up its act
For the first time, the opposition takes control of the upper house of the Diet. -- Soviet President Gorbachev keeps his balance, but the waves are getting rougher. -- Mideast masters of double-talk flip-flop their rhetoric.
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BUSINESS: The shrinking Pentagon budget hits home
As Congress debates how to cut defense outlays, anxious U.S. military , contractors and tens of thousands of workers whose jobs are threatened prepare for another year of declining expenditures.
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LAW: Heading for a showdown in "Sue City," Iowa
In the aftermath of a fiery DC-10 crash, an elite cadre of aviation lawyers is squaring off with insurers in a fierce legal battle. Millions of dollars may be involved.
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SPORT: The deeply mystical allure of fly-fishing
For nearly 500,000 anglers who make it one of the U.S.'s fastest-growing sports, casting for trout in unspoiled waters is more than a skill or a discipline. It is a religion.
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INTERVIEW: A look at a nation on the brink
Mexican author Jorge G. Castaneda speaks of his country's political instability, its staggering debt and the U.S.'s stake in the outcome.
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LIVING: Exploding the myth of male housework
A new book tells the hard truth: most men -- even those who talk equality -- do not really do much child rearing, cooking, cleaning, shopping, or enough other chores to count.
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MUSIC: Should Mozart's operas be camped up?
Don Giovanni in Spanish Harlem? Figaro in Trump Tower? Why? A skeptical view of Peter Sellars' zany productions of three Mozart-Da Ponte works.
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TRAVEL: For those who trouble to venture beyond the expressway, the character and color of the frontier are alive and well
South Dakota, North Dakota and Montana are celebrating their centennials with rodeos, cattle drives, river regattas and folk fests, luring visitors westward to rediscover the nation's astonishingly recent past. Wagon trains cross South Dakota, Victorian trappings grace a 19th century cattle ranch, and weekend powwows on the range continue all summer long.
7 Letters
9 American Ideas
43 Religion
43 Technology
43 Science
44 Milestones
44 Space
54 Cinema
55 People
60 Books
66 Essay
Cover: Photograph by Harry Benson