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The Zairian military recently launched an operation to quell what they are calling a rebel uprising by indigenous militia. Long feared for their corrupt and brutal ways, the unpaid combat troops have scored a few successes against the rebels but in the process have spread terror throughout North Kivu. At...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A CONTAGION OF GENOCIDE | 7/8/1996 | See Source »

What scholars do know is that the ancestors of the Olmec, like those of all Native Americans, were Asian hunter-gatherers who crossed into the Americas at least 12,000 years ago, at the end of the most recent ice age. Bits of ancient garbage and the remains of mud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Archaeology: MYSTERY OF THE OLMEC | 7/1/1996 | See Source »

Homer shows them learning skills (sailing, fishing, farm work) and getting their education in the schoolhouse. Henry James found Homer's "barefoot urchins and little girls in calico sun-bonnets...almost barbarously simple" and "horribly ugly," but conceded that they won you over: Homer "has resolutely treated them as if...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART: WINSLOW HOMER: AMERICA'S SUPREME REALIST | 6/24/1996 | See Source »

In the spring of 1883, Homer shut down his New York studio and moved to Prout's Neck, a narrow strip of rock on the Maine coast. There he found himself a cottage overlooking the sea--a good place for a man whose four favorite words, a friend recalled, were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART: WINSLOW HOMER: AMERICA'S SUPREME REALIST | 6/24/1996 | See Source »

I actually got to look inside a twister on June 21, 1992, when I was fishing at Skagway Reservoir, east of Cripple Creek, Colorado. Around noon, I saw dark skies building to the west, and people smarter than I started leaving. Shortly after 2, a wild cloud formation appeared about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 10, 1996 | 6/10/1996 | See Source »

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