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...idea of independence from Indonesia or some form of autonomy, after so many years of being caught between two implacable foes?by most accounts more than 12,000 have died in the fighting, most of them civilians?they are desperate to avoid seeing full-scale conflict again. Abdullah, a fisherman in the coastal village of Lamno, summed up the feelings of many we talked to in the months following the tsunami. The catastrophe, he told a Time colleague, was "a blessing in disguise." How so? Said Abdullah: "At least we can now sleep peacefully at night." Because of the scale...
Borne on a 20-ft. fishing boat covered by a canopy in the papal colors of yellow and white, John Paul II, successor of Peter the Fisherman, traveled to the waterside sanctuary of Our Lady of Lake Togo. To many of the smiling tribesmen who came to greet the white-robed visitor, the omens for the day were auspicious. That morning a 5-ft. python had slithered over a wall in the church compound. A majority of the people in the region are animists who venerate pythons. The incident, early in the Pope's seven-nation tour of Africa, indicated...
...wearing the hip-girl wardrobe: designer jeans, a floaty blue top, and turquoise earrings that peek through her long hair. His shaggy hair and flowing beard are tinged with gray. He has tucked the curls partly under a knit cap, giving him the appearance of a trendy mad fisherman. His corduroy pants, tapering to his ankles, look either vintage '80s or just unfashionable--it's hard to tell. His sweatshirt sleeves are pulled up to his elbows to show off the intricate tattoo that covers his right forearm, a mix of Pueblo tribal bands embellished with dots and a central...
Meanwhile, by the harbor, Gisli Tor Hauksson, 14, already has big plans that don't require spending his afternoons toiling over geometry. "I'll be a fisherman," he says, just like most of his ancestors. His father recently returned home from 60 days at sea off the coast of Norway. "He came back with 1.1 million krona," about $18,000, says Hauksson. As for school, he says, "it destroys the brain." He intends to quit at 16, the earliest age at which he can do so legally. "A boy sees his older brother who has been at sea for only...
Companies reinvent themselves. Celebrities remake themselves habitually. So why not you? We sought out people who switched courses late in life to pursue a dream that had been on hold for too long. And we found a country full of inspiring stories: the commercial fisherman who now surfs three months a year, the business exec who becomes a sculptor and the teacher turned activist. Everyone's dreams are different--like the former pilot who swam the English Channel--but just the idea of a dream can be powerful and contagious. As Goethe said, "Whatever you can do or dream, begin...