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So what? Well, it complicates matters, suggesting that gradual cultural exchange has played a quiet but constant role in human history - and that invasions aren't necessarily all they have been cracked up to be. Thirty years ago the dominant theory was that the precursor of the Indo-European languages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living in the Past | 4/30/2001 | See Source »

In the last chapter, Johnson goes back to Liberia at the request of Esquire magazine. This section is simultaneously an unfiltered report of events and an absurd hallucination, with Johnson portraying the Africa of Liberia not so much as the Dark Continent as another planet. Menacingly titled �...

Author: By Josiah J. Madigan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: ‘Seek’ and Ye Shall Find Yourself | 4/27/2001 | See Source »

Drug war critics in Latin America complain that while the increasingly militarized nature of drug interdiction efforts are unlikely to resolve the problem of drug abuse in the U.S., it does wreak havoc with democracy in the region. In Colombia, for example, narco-traffickers have found that the best way...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Peru Plane Tragedy Highlights a Troubled War on Drugs | 4/24/2001 | See Source »

Stars do it. Sports do it. Judges in the highest courts do it. Let's do it: that yoga thing. A path to enlightenment that winds back 5,000 years in its native India, yoga has suddenly become so hot, so cool, so very this minute. It's the exercise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Power of Yoga | 4/23/2001 | See Source »

Similar contortions have already been involved in arriving at the terms of the summit political declaration and the "action plan," which has been massaged by officials from around the hemisphere for months. The heart of the political declaration will be a clause that makes future participation in the busy hemisphere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Report: Summit of the Americas | 4/19/2001 | See Source »

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