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Oct. 05, 1992: From the Publisher
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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."
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<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
</p>
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