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"Four-legged ones, you mean," I said. "Yes," he replied, "the Moscow wolves aren't in any danger."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOLVES ON THE PROWL | 12/15/1997 | See Source »

In fact the two-legged city wolves are on the prowl. What diplomats and journalists routinely call economic reform in Russia is now more reminiscent of wolves tearing at the carcass of a giant beast. The new banking magnates--oligarchs as they are often known--are fighting over the remains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOLVES ON THE PROWL | 12/15/1997 | See Source »

Writing a sequel to a rare, magical novel can be a dodgy undertaking, and it's not hard to see why. The fine first novel gets done, let's say, because an enchanted story taps the author on the shoulder and titanic characters rage to be let loose. The sequel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: BEEN THERE, DONE THAT | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

Yauch himself is remarkably slight and soft-spoken, given the aggressiveness of his group's punk-rap music but then since he began practicing Tibetan Buddhism, the group spits into the crowd a lot less. Yauch, brought up secularly by a Jewish father and Catholic mother, first meditated after attending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUDDHISM IN AMERICA | 10/13/1997 | See Source »

The teacher and student sit cross-legged, facing each other on the floor of the open-sided hut in Western Samoa. Behind them the rain forest rises to the pinnacle of a long-dormant volcano. Beneath the thatched roof, a gaggle of children intently watches the proceedings. The teacher is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PLANT HUNTER | 10/1/1997 | See Source »

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