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...America's heart. Mark Twain, who was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in 1835, grew up on the nation's literal main stream, the Mississippi River, in Hannibal, Mo. Having failed to find a ship that would take him to South America and the fortune he proposed to make from coca, by the age of 23 he had become a Mississippi-steamboat pilot. It was a job he held just briefly, but the memory of the river, its enchantments and dangers, found its way years later into his most powerful book, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. It also found its way into...
...major drug-producing regions. The road is controlled by army and police checkpoints, but to enter the Cordillera Occidental mountains that hover above it, you need the permission of the FARC (The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia), the fierce Marxist guerrillas who control the cultivation of the area's coca crop, the raw material of cocaine. That rare permiso allowed TIME to take an eight-hour mule ride through the mountains, rivers, jungles and dozens of coca plantations to the encampment of German Silva Hernandez, alias Comandante Alberto, one of the commanders of the FARC's 18th Front. He carries...
...seems to threaten the individuality of unique and vibrant societies has actually been around all along, and what is happening now is just the natural progression of things. At least, that is what I tell myself as Ronald McDonald watches me wash down my bulgogi burger with a refreshing Coca-Cola...
...arrived, Buffett, now 77 years old, joked with the girls that he doesn't eat anything he wouldn't touch when he was less than 5. His order: a medium-rare steak with hash browns and a cherry coke - a fitting choice, given that his company, Berkshire Hathaway, is Coca-Cola's largest shareholder...
...Schwartz, also a creator of the original antismoking campaigns, it is too brief a summary of his life's work. He made time for important causes, balancing blockbuster campaigns for Coca-Cola with public-service ads for AIDS awareness and fire safety. Finally, he was a skilled audio engineer whose diverse recordings are now in the Library of Congress. He displayed an unparalleled ability to home in on the sounds that best tell a story. As his son Anton remembers, "He was fond of saying that people who work in radio have the great fortune that humans do not have...