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Among the first modern Westerners to be captivated by the Maya were the American Stephens and English artist Frederick Catherwood, who started in 1839 to bushwhack their way into the Central American rain forest to gaze at the monumental ruins of Copan, Palenque, Uxmal and other Maya sites. The book Stephens wrote about his trek was an enormous popular success and sparked others to follow him and Catherwood into the jungle and into musty Spanish colonial archives. Over the next half-century, researchers uncovered, among other things, the Popol Vuh (the sacred book of the Quiche Maya tribe...
...then, it seems, Vince Foster had begun to see the move as a mistake as well. Foster had asked an Arkansas physician to send him an antidepressant, which arrived shortly before his death. While the drug may have been a step in the right direction, such medication, says Dr. Frederick Guggenheim, chairman of the University of Arkansas' department of psychiatry, can initially restore one's energy without lifting the despair. It may have served only to give him enough life to take...
BUREAUS: Suzanne Davis (Director of Administration) Chief Political Correspondent: Michael Kramer Washington Contributing Editors: Stanley W. Cloud, Hugh Sidey Senior Correspondents: David Aikman, Jonathan Beaty, Sandra Burton, Barry Hillenbrand, J. Madeleine Nash, Frederick Ungeheuer, Bruce van Voorst, Jack E. White...
Contributors: Robert Ball, Marguerite Johnson, Dominique Moisi, Christopher Ogden, Frederick Painton, Michael Walsh...
BUREAUS: Suzanne Davis (Director of Administration) Chief Political Correspondent: Michael Kramer Washington Contributing Editors: Stanley W. Cloud, Hugh Sidey Senior Correspondents: David Aikman, Jonathan Beaty, Sandra Burton, Barry Hillenbrand, J. Madeleine Nash, Frederick Ungeheuer, Bruce van Voorst, Jack E. White...