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However sturdy the boats might be, crossing the Drake Passage makes even the saltiest sailor turn green. Seasick pills are therefore mandatory. Along the coast, Antarctic summers might feel warmer than some Northern Hemisphere winters, but serious cold-weather clothing, like skiwear, is still required. Other essential items to bring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Antarctica: Travel Desk | 7/7/2003 | See Source »

DAVID HEMPLEMAN-ADAMS, British balloonist, before embarking on a solo trans-Atlantic crossing. He is hoping to set a distance record

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 6/30/2003 | See Source »

Visiting Rocco's is less like entering a restaurant than like crossing the border into a pleasurable but intrusive security state. In a red tent on the sidewalk, a well-dressed young woman asks you to sign a release--five pages of teensy-print legalese ("I warrant and represent that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TV Dinners | 6/23/2003 | See Source »

Is there a college student alive who hasn't heard of George Orwell? Or his prescient novels Animal Farm and 1984 - at least in their Hollywood versions? Or any of those chilling words and phrases he gave us: Newspeak, double-think, unperson, cold war, Ministry of Truth, Big Brother is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Orwell Up Close | 6/22/2003 | See Source »

Occasionally it's a little more serious. There was the FORTUNE 500 executive from Kansas City, Kans., who called on a Friday afternoon: the server with all his company's financial information had died, and the backup tape turned out to be blank. He was on the next plane to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fried Your Drive? | 6/9/2003 | See Source »

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