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...summer in New York City helping produce our magazines and, we hope, learning about life, work and the real world of journalism. The six interns at TIME in this year's crop are midway through their nine-week stint. If the past is any guide, the summer will be humid with surprises...
...that touring Guangdong province in South China is like visiting a foreign country. In contrast to much of China, Guangdong exudes abundance: successful farmers living in multistory houses, townships producing consumer goods ranging from shoes to toys to microwave ovens, thousands of privately owned businesses blossoming. Set in the humid delta of the Pearl River, Guangdong's capital, Guangzhou, better known in the West as Canton, seethes with enterprise. The Dongping Street free market is filled with stalls selling all sorts of food: fish swimming in tubs of fresh water, poultry, a greengrocer's delight of vegetables and fruits. Most...
...from door to door, in bow tie and tweed jacket, selling imported monkeys. After briefly fleeing to South America (a shelter, he believed, from an imminent nuclear holocaust), the man who regarded himself as a reincarnation of Lenin settled in Northern California and opened some convalescent homes. Then, one humid day in the jungles of Guyana, he ordered his followers to drink a Kool-Aid-like punch soured with cyanide. By the time the world arrived at Jonestown, 911 people were dead...
...death came for the Archbishop cuts deep into the soul of El Salvador. At 6 p.m. on March 24, 1980, Oscar Arnulfo Romero, the Archbishop of San Salvador and an outspoken critic of the military terrorism that was ravaging the country, was celebrating Mass in the small, humid chapel of the Hospital of Divine Providence. As he delivered his sermon, a gunshot shattered the calm of the ceremony. The Archbishop toppled to the floor, his heart pierced by a single bullet. Blood stained the white altar cloth. Bending down to give the gray-haired prelate a final kiss...
...what if seersucker suits are quick to wrinkle in the humid D.C. weather, bowties become droopy after hours of uninterrupted hearing-watching, and Xerox machines are hungry beasts. The beach is only about three hours away...