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Charles is not the first royal concerned about nature. Mad King George dabbled in botany when he wasn't losing his mind or the American colonies, and Charles' father, the Duke of Edinburgh, has long supported wildlife causes. But it is Charles who has become the crusader, with a vision of Britain that may border on the romantic but is in synch with Britons alarmed by what is happening to their green and pleasant land. He has the energy and dedication to get things done. "My problem," he has said, "is that I become carried away by enthusiasm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Princely Pioneer | 4/26/2000 | See Source »

...Korean accent and a Betty Boop voice. Yet ponytailed and blue-jeaned Rebecca Seo, 9, brings to the role all the majesty of Elizabethan prose as she stands on a desk at Hobart Boulevard Elementary School, declaiming, "The venom clamours of a jealous woman/ Poisons more deadly than a mad dog's tooth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Teacher Works Six Days a Week | 4/24/2000 | See Source »

...been a rough two weeks for the Asian-American community. For one thing, they've found themselves locked in a mortal struggle with a cartoon character. Then, last Tuesday, a group of Asian-law students were forced to wait for a table at Temple Bar. Now they're fighting mad and there's talk of a boycott. It looks like the bushido spirit is alive and well...

Author: By Noah Oppenheim, | Title: Bushido at the Bar | 4/21/2000 | See Source »

...crimes, but he can't get anyone to believe him when he confesses. This is partly because his friends are as vacant as he is; they talk but don't listen. And also because Patrick, for all his brutal truth telling, is an unreliable narrator. You see, he is mad--so mad, he probably committed the murders only in his head. Which still makes him one sick yuppie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Yuppie's Killer Instinct | 4/17/2000 | See Source »

...hold of a long form (if it's patriotic to fill out one, I figure it's doubly patriotic to fill out two) and now know why people are mad. All the Census people care about is how much money you make, like the USA Today Life section. The other questions are so dumb, they must have been penned by a writer so talentless that he gets work only once a decade. A writer who may, I suspect, live in a mobile home and be a tad defensive about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Take My Privacy, Please | 4/17/2000 | See Source »

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