Word: journeyer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...next morning the column left Herat for the remaining 3 1/2-hour ride to the frontier. As soon as the vehicles rumbled across the Soviet border into Kushka, broad smiles spread across the faces of troopers who had been tense through much of the journey; a few jumped off their vehicles to dance with local Turkmen women. For the men in the convoy and an additional 10,000 withdrawn during the past two weeks, the war was over. Asked what the pullback meant to them, the soldiers generally repeated the official line of having "fulfilled their internationalist duty," though one lieutenant...
Like myths of Eden, the stories of Huck and Tom endure in the American imagination. But they have a dark side too. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck's journey in the Delectable Land is also a drama of alcoholism, child abuse, young runaways, social breakdown, violence, hypocrisy, racism and a child's struggle to understand right and wrong in a society that has lost its bearings. Huckleberry Finn is still the best book about American childhood, as contemporary as a milk carton bearing the photograph of a missing child...
...roads, official harassment and wandering bandits, drivers adopt aggressive attitudes, complete with tattoos, earrings and vile vocabularies. They cannot quite disguise the soft hearts beneath their flamboyant T shirts. When an East German family gets stranded on the road in Yugoslavia, it is hauled back home gratis. As the journey concludes, a trucker wistfully remarks, "I was born in the wrong century. I should have sailed with Sir Francis Drake." Perhaps he should have, with Hutchison along to take notes. The world would then know a lot more today about what went on in the 1500s at the borders, across...
Atlanta now has the standard characteristics of a national city. Travelers arriving in its vast, ultra-modern airport are guided on what seems like an almost endless journey toward the outside world by a disembodied voice that speaks standard American English -- the Southern woman who recorded it having been instructed to purge her speech of any cornpone connotations. It can match just about any Northern city in the splendor of its high-rises or the poverty of those who are sometimes spoken of as living "in the shadow of the buildings." The white residents of most of its neighborhoods have...
...imposing as the problems of extended space flight seem, most experts are confident that humans can survive the journey to Mars. But in what shape will they be when they get there? Says NASA Physicist Wendell Mendell: "It doesn't do you much good to deliver a human to the Martian surface if that human is inert for a time after landing...