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About half the population of Europe lives along rivers, but suddenly water was the bane of the Continent. Fed by torrential rains, floods from the Black Sea to the Baltic took roughly 100 lives, left thousands homeless and caused billions of dollars' worth of damage to the farms, cities and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Besieged And Deluged | 8/26/2002 | See Source »

"It's really dangerous. I've almost drowned. But I've won it three times," she says, referring to the professional surfing competition held at Teahupoo each May. With her sun-bleached blond hair and slim, muscular build, Kennelly, 24, is one of the growing cadre of elite female surfers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Girls in the Curl | 8/26/2002 | See Source »

So, what is the deal with this Seinfeld guy? Oppenheimer, whose credits include unauthorized biographies of Martha Stewart and Barbara Walters, doggedly interrogates Seinfeld's childhood pals, ex-girlfriends and business partners in search of an answer. But the only picture he can come up with is of an almost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Seinfeld: The Making Of An American Icon | 8/26/2002 | See Source »

I first saw the earth--the whole earth--from the shuttle Challenger in 1984. The view takes your breath away and fills you with childlike wonder. That's why every shuttle crew has to clean noseprints off their spacecraft's windows several times a day. An incredibly beautiful tapestry of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Glimpse Of Home | 8/26/2002 | See Source »

In film style and personal temperament, the two men formed perfect bookends for '60s sex. Metzger was the European sophisticate to Meyer's canny version of the all-American yahoo rube. Metzger's films were caresses, Meyer's were comic assaults. Metzger's languid tracking shots of fabulously decadent femmes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thanks for the Mammaries | 8/2/2002 | See Source »

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