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- Oct. 05, 1992: From the Publisher
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Oct. 05, 1992 LYING:Everybody's Doin' It (Honest)
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- FROM THE PUBLISHER, Page 4
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- <p> In recent years TIME has devoted special issues of the
- magazine to compelling and urgent subjects ranging from women's
- trials and triumphs to the U.S. Constitution. The extra pages in
- these issues provide for protracted reflection outside the
- current sweep of news and allow us to bring you a bonus package
- of our best journalistic efforts, applied to a larger subject
- than we can ordinarily tackle in a week. This week readers will
- find at newsstands and in mailboxes perhaps our most ambitious
- project yet: "Beyond the Year 2000: What to Expect in the New
- Millennium."
- </p>
- <p> This peek into the future is not the result of a single
- stroke of inspiration from one editor; the idea grew over a year
- from more modest proposals by several staff members. And then,
- over the past six months, it was prepared under the direction
- of editors Edward Jamieson and Stephen Koepp. Vacationing in
- the Grand Canyon's timeless beauty soon after he began the
- project, Koepp felt inspired to think about the millennium. "We
- decided to do this issue now because the '90s are really the
- advent season of the new millennium. In the relative scale of
- things, it's just a few minutes before midnight, and time for
- humankind to start preparing for what lies beyond," he says.
- "The year 2000 has always been so symbolic of an idealized
- future, the better world that we'd like to see. Considering the
- rapid pace of change, we can't predict all the news that the
- 21st century will bring, but many challenges and opportunities
- are already coming into view."
- </p>
- <p> A sole advertiser, IBM, appears in the pages of this
- issue. We are pleased that the company chose to associate itself
- with this project, a review of how far we've come in the past
- millennium and how much further we may be going in the next.
- </p>
- <p> On page 58 of this issue is a story by correspondent
- Sylvester Monroe, telling of his return to the Chicago housing
- projects he grew up in and the public high school he attended
- a generation ago. In very personal terms, Sylvester documents
- the even harder struggles today's blacks confront as they
- attempt to climb out of poverty. As part of this extraordinary
- report, he will appear on The Issue Is Race, a PBS special
- produced in association with TIME that will air Oct. 2 on public
- television stations.
- </p>
- <p> Elizabeth P. Valk
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