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Hometown: Evanston, IL/Rio de Janeiro, Brazil...
...thought returning to Vietnam would be difficult. After all, my first attempt had not gone well. In October 1974, I left the country newly married to Nguyen thi Phuong Nga and for a new assignment in Rio de Janeiro. I had just completed two years in Saigon for TIME, reporting the chaotic endgame of a cruel war. Six months later, with Communist forces close to overrunning the country, I headed back to Saigon to try to bring out Nga's parents, five sisters and her brother. We had arranged visas to the U.S. for them from Rio, but they needed...
This is terrifying news for the 300,000 or so souls who live in the Maldives, but it could also spell disaster for people living on or near the sea everywhere--in Venice, Rio de Janeiro, Tokyo, New York City, the Nile delta in Egypt, the Ganges delta in Bangladesh or the Mississippi delta on the U.S. Gulf Coast. In all, perhaps 3 billion people, half the world's population, live within a hundred miles of the sea. And at least 100 million of them occupy low-lying deltas that, like the Maldives, rise not much more than...
...idea clicked last December in Rio de Janeiro, where Supermodel Jerry Hall was posing for Photographer Annie Leibovitz for the March '85 cover of Vanity Fair. The session went so well that the pair decided to do a 1986 pinup calendar. There was no problem finding exposure: Workman Publishing took the calendar, Playboy a set of the photographs. Hall's seasonal poses run from a vision in lace (January) to Aunt Sam (July) to a Christmas gift (December). Observes Leibovitz of Mick Jagger's lady: "Jerry loves the camera." And vice versa...
...around at 6 a.m. in his New York City apartment, Mader dispatched Caribbean Bureau Chief Bernard Diederich to Colombia, then quickly ascertained that TIME's Tom Quinn, who works out of Bogotá, was already on the story. As the death toll mounted, Mader decided to send Rio de Janeiro Bureau Chief Gavin Scott, who was covering Halley's comet, to Bogotá to join the TIME team. Unlike Mexico City immediately after its earthquake, Bogotá had a functioning airport and telex and telephone lines were intact. Still, to get to the Nevado del Ruiz area, Diederich had to hitch a ride...