The choice 'had its origin in the scorching summer of 1988, when environmental disasters - droughts, floods, forest fires, polluted beaches - dominated the news,' publisher Robert Miller wrote in a note at the beginning of the issue.ĭrought wreaked havoc for farmers and grain supplies across the country and touched off intense forest fires in the American West, manmade pollution drove swimmers from beaches on both sides of the Atlantic and in the Mediterranean, killer hurricanes tore through the Caribbean and floods devastated Bangladesh, the magazine said. In a departure from previous years, when there were runners-up for the year-end cover story honor, Time said nothing or no one else was even considered for the annual selection of the person, people or thing that most significantly influenced - for better or worse - the course of world events.
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