Word: journeyer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...long-delayed cheer. At last the Galileo mission, which has languished for more than a decade because of technical debates and the Challenger explosion, will be getting under way. Astronauts on Atlantis will release the Galileo spacecraft, setting it on a six-year, 2.5 billion-mile journey to Jupiter. There the probe will take the first direct measurements of the planet's dense clouds and hurricane-like winds...
...past century, imported tourists and Canadians alike have treasured his handiwork. The legendary Canadian is one of the last great, long, unforgettable rides left in the world and the only daily transcontinental run in North America. But those who dream of taking the journey will have to start packing...
...trip was part of a five-week, 4,000-mile journey across China by special correspondent Kramer for this week's cover story. His reflections accompany our 27-page gallery of photographs from the new book A Day in the Life of China. Says Kramer: "I saw a great people whose lives could be so much better if their political system was less oppressive...
Accompanying Kramer for part of the journey was Beijing reporter Jaime A. FlorCruz. A graduate of Peking University, FlorCruz has reported on China for TIME for nine years. When he visited the U.S. for the first time last month, he found himself constantly fielding questions about last June's student massacre in Beijing. Even a Broadway night out offered no respite. "I took my wife to see the play Les Miserables," he says. "Watching the portrayal of the French students at the barricades, I was thinking of the wide-eyed youth in Tiananmen Square...
...encourage in anyone, it was the back of this book which drew me in. (The front cover is incredibly ugly; don't let it deter you.) One of the best of English travel writers (who has also done some exploring of our America, in Old Glory, a fabulous journey down the Mississippi), Jonathan Raban, describes her earlier work as a "romance with America itself, its infinitely possible geography, its license, sexiness, and violence." The description clearly fits this new novel, and romance is a well-chosen word...