30 SEPTEMBER 1989, page 12

Another Time Of Troubles

Stephen Handelman finds that a new spirit of democracy has solved few of the Soviet Unions's problems Moscow IN 1625, during the 'Time of Troubles', a massive clock was hauled......

Scenes From Science

Big bang HOW is the Universe supposed to have begun? The explanation currently in vogue is that all the matter in it was originally crammed into one infinitesi- mally small......