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...retired, is one of the trackers who dragged boats upstream through the Gorges in the days before motor transport became standard. Although trackers haven't worked the Yangtze for more than a decade, they are immortalized in legend and song, and by authors in the West such as John Hersey and Paul Theroux. We have come to Chen's home in Daxi in part because of Hersey's 1956 novel, A Single Pebble, which vividly describes the Qutang trackers' path, a narrow walkway carved into the cliff wall. Hersey calls it "the most terrible place on the whole river...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tracking the Past Along the Three Gorges | 10/29/2001 | See Source »

...conducted the first-ever mail-in primary 14. Be next to 15. Americans lined up for it in '73 and '79 16. "Son of" in Saudi Arabia 18. __ of Court (responsible for British legal education) 19. Where Knight time has still not come to an end 22. Hersey's bell town 25. Cautionary road sign 26. T. rex now on display in Chicago 29. Roman city that's the site of a frantic salvage operation 31. What Rick is expecting from Hillary 33. Western moniker 34. Throw in 36. Turkey's new President, __ Necdet Sezer 37. They're now getting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News Quiz Crossword Jun. 5, 2000 | 6/5/2000 | See Source »

...might also have something to do with the fact that he is now playing for a Bulls team that has two veteran shooting guards already on the roster in Hersey Hawkins and B.J. Armstrong...

Author: By Peter D. Henninger, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Percent Hydronium: Starks Dresses for the Enemy | 2/23/2000 | See Source »

...hate to use the term mathematically still alive because that means you're almost dead. But right now it doesn't look good", Sonics guard Hersey Hawkins said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Spurs Turn Up Heat on Jazz: Sonics' Hopes Fading | 5/3/1999 | See Source »

...Hersey Professor of Theory and Practice of Physic Dr. Victor J. Dzau is exploring another possible use for gene therapy...

Author: By Elisheva A. Lambert, | Title: Plans to Move Gene Therapy to New Plateau | 4/15/1997 | See Source »

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