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...truck in reverse and tried again. For some reason, perhaps the noise and fumes, I forgot that I had done all that damage with the engine turned off and decided I had been going too slow. Also, as I was approaching the ramp, I misinterpreted Dennis' signal to slow down for some kind of monster-truck high five and hit the gas instead. I Fonzied five feet over both Caprices, clearing my front wheels by 15 feet. I felt like Bo and Luke, only really scared. When I landed, my head somehow hit the steering wheel and cracked my helmet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Digging My Own Grave | 8/20/2001 | See Source »

...plied their wares. Yet in 1471, less than 70 years later, the northern Annam kingdom of ethnic Vietnamese conquered the Chams, driving them south and scattering them. Some remained Hindu but many in Cambodia and southern Vietnam later converted to Islam en masse, and their ancient culture was nearly forgot-ten. "Do you really mean the Chams once had an empire?" asks an incredulous 69-year-old Tran Dinh Liu, an ethnic Cham Hroi farmer who lives less than an hour from a 12th-century Cham tower near Qui Nhon. "I don't know any history of the nation except...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vestiges of an Empire | 8/20/2001 | See Source »

Travel was not without complications: getting a train ticket from Barcelona to Italy proved much harder than we had anticipated. We forgot that Europeans go on vacation too, and that they tend to go at the end of July, just when we were trying to leave...

Author: By Zoe K. Epstein, | Title: POSTCARD FROM BARCELONA: ‘Purple Rain’ in Spain | 8/17/2001 | See Source »

...truck in reverse and tried again. For some reason, perhaps the noise and fumes, I forgot that I had done all that damage with the engine turned off and decided I had been going too slow. Also, as I was approaching the ramp, I misinterpreted Dennis' signal to slow down for some kind of monster-truck high five and hit the gas instead. I Fonzied five feet over both Caprices, clearing my front wheels by 15 feet. I felt like Bo and Luke, only really scared. When I landed, my head somehow hit the steering wheel and cracked my helmet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Digging My Own Grave | 8/13/2001 | See Source »

...Fill out departure card. The first police officer you come to will inspect your passport and card and hand it to his boss. This is where your "permission to leave" slip from police HQ comes in. Hand it over. Passport stamped. 9) Final check. But wait! The first policeman forgot to stamp your boarding pass. Back to police check again and then back to final check. 10) Congratulations. You made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Maneuvers with the World's Poorest Army | 7/24/2001 | See Source »

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