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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.
-
- 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."