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- FROM THE PUBLISHER, Page 14
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- Don't be surprised, if you're traveling outside the U.S. or
- Canada this week, to find TIME with a different cover than the
- one on this edition. The cover story elsewhere is about the
- crisis facing Carlos Saul Menem, the incoming President of
- Argentina, instead of the Pete Rose gambling scandal. The
- domestic story on gambling runs in a somewhat shorter form
- inside the other editions. These changes are only the most
- prominent features of the increasingly rich and specialized
- editing that TIME provides each week in 5.6 million copies
- circulated throughout countries around the world.
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- TIME's first overseas editions, produced for U.S. forces
- during World War II, were known as pony editions, for their
- compact size and reduced news content. During World War II, we
- also started publishing a Canadian edition that included a
- special section of news about our northern neighbor. That
- edition was expanded in 1962, with the opening of an editorial
- office in Montreal, and began publishing occasional Canadian
- cover stories.
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- The concept moved on to Europe in 1973 and Asia in 1976. In
- Australia we offer additional local coverage through a joint
- venture with John Fairfax & Sons Ltd. Last year the various
- international editions of TIME carried a total of 53 cover
- stories that did not appear in the U.S.
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- In addition to running different covers, these editions
- contain an enriched diet of world news, reporting not only on
- politics but also on business and back-of-the-book subjects from
- art to video. The international editions even have several
- sections of their own, including Traveler's Advisory, a breezy
- guide to special events throughout the world; Readings, a survey
- of important books published outside the U.S.; and Cultures, a
- chronicle of the idiosyncratic sensitivities and surprising
- similarities of societies around the world.
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- The purpose throughout is to offer citizens of the global
- village a selection of practical information that is tailored
- to their needs, while remaining attentive to regional concerns.
- We took an additional step in that direction in April by
- becoming the first global newsmagazine to convert to all-color
- printing in all editions (a capability we've had in the U.S.
- since 1984).
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- All this, says international editor Karsten Prager, makes
- for a certain pleasant irony. "As the world has become smaller,
- our charter has grown bigger than ever."
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