There’s a very thin line between being thrilled and being terrified, and Candice Feiring saw both emotions on her son’s face.
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National Defense: THE STRATEGIC GEOGRAPHY OF THE CARIBBEAN SEA
On the two following pages TIME presents a map of the most important strategic area in the Western Hemisphere: the approaches to the Panama Canal.Until the U. S.
Why Japan’s Whale Hunt Continues
It’s a ritual that boils the blood of whale-watchers everywhere. On Nov
Jerusalem At The Time Of Jesus
This would have been his path. According to the gospels, it was in the area of Bethany and Bethphage that Jesus would have stayed each evening of the Passover holiday–on the far slope of the Mount of Olives, where his followers Mary and Martha lived and where he raised their brother Lazarus from the dead
10 Questions for Gene Hackman
In the first chapter of your new western novel Payback at Morning Peak, your 17-year-old protagonist, Jubal, finds his mother dead, shoots his dad in the head as he burns alive and tries in vain to save the life of his 14-year-old sister, who has just been raped. You wanted it to start slow, huh?Yeah, I wanted to dig myself into a hole so that I would have 300 pages to get myself out.
Water Worries
At sea lake in Western Victoria, Bob McClelland is harvesting wheat — and grateful to be doing it.
Death Be Not Proud
I belong to a generation of Europeans for whom the United States embodies democracy, progress and liberty. I went there as a student after the war.
Abandon All Hope: The Russian Region That’s Been Left to Die
Having tucked into his first bottle of vodka earlier than usual, Anatoly Zhbanov goes on an afternoon stroll to buy another one along the dirt road through Lopotova, a dying village on Russia’s western edge, in the region of Pskov. It is mid-April, and clumps of snow are still melting at the roadside where Zhbanov, a local artist, stops to peer inside a lopsided cabin, the home of a local bootlegger.
Sex and the Single Chinese
Li Li has lost exact count of how many men she has bedded, but she knows the number is far above 100. “I don’t keep statistics,” says the former journalist, 27
The Home: By the Numbers
For a businessman in Trenton who wants to call the Western Electric Co. in Manhattan—but doesn't know the number—it is about as easy as falling off a logarithm: first he dials 2125551212 , then 2125712345 for Western Electric