As the hard-rocking guitarist and songwriter with legendary band Aerosmith, Joe Perry has lived the rock’n’roll dream, but he could have been a big fish in a different pond.
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Sport: Lee Trevino: Cantinflas of the Country Clubs
IF the galleries at last week’s British Open learned anything, it was: Don’t mess with Supermex, otherwise known as Lee Trevino.
Why Australia’s Great Barrier Reef Needs Saving
Shark humor has its time and place, but not when I’m snorkeling somewhere called Shark Bay. At the Heron Island Research Station, a laboratory on the teardrop-shaped atoll 45 miles off Australia’s east coast, the suntanned, chirpy station manager gives a parting wave to the three students who are taking me out for my first look at the legendary corals of the Great Barrier Reef
I’M Going to Detroit
The hardscrabble town of Marianna, Ark. , near the Mississippi River, has no movie theater but plenty of boarded-up storefronts
Environmentalist RACHEL CARSON
She was always a writer, and she always knew that. Like Faulkner, Fitzgerald, e.e.
How the Floods May Restore Louisiana’s Wetlands
The talk of New Orleans has centered on whether the most severe Mississippi River flood in more than a quarter-century will cause catastrophic damage to a city still recovering from Hurricane Katrina. And for good reason: the flood has carved a destructive path from from Cairo, Illinois, to Vicksburg, Mississippi, and prompted Louisiana’s Republican governor, Bobby Jindal, to ask the federal government for emergency assistance
World: KHE SANH: READY TO FIGHT-
TIME Correspondent Don Sider spent several days at Khe Sanh last week ducking incoming shells and observing the unique quality of life in the besieged Marine base. His report: A chill, grey mist hangs over the jungled hills around Khe Sanh and drifts down onto the base's metal run way
Taming the Lionfish: Can Predators Be Trained to Control an Invasive Species?
In March, on a small reef off the coast of Honduras, a group of pioneering conservationists started teaching sharks how to hunt.
VA Care for U.S. Military Female Veterans Still Lacking
Shiloh Morrison spent two months as a truck gunner in Iraq before transferring to Kuwait in 2007 to work at the mortuary that takes in every U.S.
Plane, helicopter collide off California coast; 9 missing
A search was on Thursday night for nine people left missing after a Coast Guard plane collided with a Marine helicopter over the Pacific Ocean near Southern California, officials said.