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...other songwriters and performers, included performances of his music by Rufus Wainwright, Willie Nelson and k.d. lang, a poignant tribute by former Governor General Adrienne Clarkson and a wildly enthusiastic standing ovation. Cohen, 71, who was moved to tears by the event, told TIME the next day that he hadn't quite recovered from it. "It was so overwhelmingly emotional. It happens very rarely in anybody's life to receive such a clear affirmation of your work and to experience the really deep hospitality of the people that you've been writing...
Even so, the U.S. commitment to science might have remained strong if the Soviet Union hadn't collapsed in the late '80s. "We don't have this shadow of Sputnik or the cold war overhanging us," says Stanford's Hennessy, "and we need a different form of inspiration." In fact, says Robert Birgeneau, a physicist and chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, it already exists, if only we would recognize it. "We have a different kind of war, an economic war," he says. "The importance of investing in long-term research for winning that war hasn't been understood...
...setting off an antitank mine. The blast blew through the engine block with such force that the armor plating jury-rigged to the floor shattered his ankles instantly. Shrapnel sliced into his left arm, cutting an artery. He would have bled to death right there if three fellow soldiers hadn't rushed him to the field operating room in a record 13 minutes. Military doctors--astonished Braddock had survived--pulled a blood vessel out of his right thigh to repair his bleeding left arm and patched him up for a flight out, first to Tikrit, then to the U.S. military...
Only later, when he woke up, did he learn that the armor plating he had been wearing on his chest had saved him from a large piece of shrapnel. "If I hadn't had body armor, I'd be dead," he says. Braddock got a Purple Heart, and he and his buddies--Specialist Josiah Jurich, Sergeant Charles Jordan and Staff Sergeant Marvin Albert II--were all awarded Bronze Stars. He was alive, with just one small regret. "They burned my helmet and Kevlar vest." O.K., two regrets. "I wanted a cool scar, like this," says Braddock, slashing his hand across...
...about to enter the 21st century, with the publication of Peter Pan in Scarlet, the official sequel to J.M. Barrie's classic Peter Pan. Last March, British author Geraldine McCaughrean was chosen from nearly 200 authors for the delicate task of relaunching Barrie's beloved flight of fantasy. "I hadn't realized it was such a big deal," says McCaughrean. "But I thought, No, I'm damned if I'm going to be daunted. I'll just enjoy myself." Why McCaughrean? The identity of the other competing authors is a strict secret, but it's a safe bet that...