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Pico first visited with the Dalai Lama when he was 17, in the sheltered settlement of Dharamsala, in the foothills of the Himalayas. After Tibet opened up to the world, Pico made three additional trips there. In April 1988, Pico wrote a major profile of the Dalai Lama for TIME and later went to Tibet to report for us on what that peaceful society was going through under martial law. As fans of his travel writings know, Pico's curiosity has led him to nearly every corner of the globe, but he has always found himself returning to the monk...
...worrying question is whether it will ever stop. A major, prolonged drought, combined with rapid population growth in nearby urban areas like Las Vegas, has stressed Lake Mead and the rest of the Colorado River Basin, which provides water to farmers and cities from Colorado to Southern California. Now there are fears that global warming could drastically reduce the Colorado River's flow--even as the Southwest continues to expand. Scientists at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, Calif., last month estimated that there is a 50% chance that Lake Mead could be effectively...
...happiest moment of Kubota's career was when Ichiro tallied his 258th hit of the 2004 season, breaking George Sisler's 84-year-old major-league record. "It felt so lucky to witness the breaking of a record that was set before I was born," says Kubota. "That might not happen even once in 100 years' time...
...England and was able to play for Great Britain’s national team after being named to its 28-man roster for the Olympic Qualifying Tournament.“It was just a blast,” Stack-Babich says. “There were a bunch of major league and minor league guys we were playing with from all over the globe.”While it took a few years and a few thousand miles to find it, Stack-Babich now seems to have the self-assurance that he was missing in his first two seasons with...
...senior now turns his sights toward becoming one. Not known as a velocity pitcher, his fastball reached 90 miles per hour—an important benchmark for collegiate starters—on Scout Day last October. Haviland admits that he may have allowed thoughts of scouts and the Major League Baseball draft to become a distraction last year, but all signs point to him keeping his focus on the mound in 2008. “I don’t think he’s going to let scouts watching him or this being his last year...