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There was no doubt he was a dangerous man, a murderer. He admitted it. But there was a glittering, reptilian brilliance to his madness. A line from Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness kept running through my head. "Exterminate the brutes." He was Mr. Kurtz gone insane in the jungle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Meeting the Most Dangerous Man in Colombia | 9/8/2006 | See Source »

Casta?o's men found us in the village and ordered us back to the speedboat. We were dropped at a shining white beach. Casta?o was waiting for us under a giant tree, his armed guards fanned out across the fields in a wide circle. He explained that in the night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Meeting the Most Dangerous Man in Colombia | 9/8/2006 | See Source »

As the pilots prepared Comair Flight 5191 for takeoff in the predawn darkness Sunday, they talked with air traffic controllers about Runway 22, Blue Grass Airport's main strip for commercial flights, a federal official said on CNN on Monday after listening to tapes recovered from the crashed plane's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is the Runway Part of the Problem? | 8/28/2006 | See Source »

All war movies are antiwar movies in that they describe horrible incidents and the most profound thing of all, to lose a young person. But I was more interested in examining the idea, from Heart of Darkness, that society could send people in to kill on behalf of some moral...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Francis Ford Coppola | 8/14/2006 | See Source »

Heading north, the structures seem to grow taller, until they turn into massive domes and spires. The largest mounds hold upward of a million insects working in blind harmony. Mounds can reach 7 m high and 12 m around the base, and may have taken a century or more of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tiny Architects | 8/7/2006 | See Source »

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