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...Silicon Valley, California has long been the place where the newest manifestations of the American dream first sprouted. In Orange County, the dream seems to be driven by the lure of both success and excess. With 42 miles of beckoning oceanfront, this California-style Riviera is a 38-sq.-mi. wedge of land stretching from the Pacific Ocean to the Santa Ana Mountains and harboring the thriving towns of Newport Beach (pop. 67,000), Costa Mesa (88,000) and Irvine (89,000). It includes a constellation of some 700 high-tech firms -- making Orange the U.S.'s fifth largest high...
Halfway around the world from Turkey, other nautical archaeologists were at work last April off Vanikoro, a 300-sq.-mi. island in the southwestern Pacific's Solomon chain. The setting was pure Indiana Jones: mosquito-infested jungles; rivers teeming with crocodiles; heavy, brooding clouds hovering over an inhospitable landscape...
Clifford began his search for the Whydah in 1982. Armed with an exclusive permit from the state of Massachusetts, he concentrated on a 2-sq.-mi. area, using a magnetometer and side-scan sonar. In the summer of 1983 divers found a clay pipestem, brass nails and some rudder strapping. But try as he might, Clifford could not convince everyone that the artifacts were from the Whydah and not from any of the countless other ships that have been wrecked off the Cape. Even the 1984 discovery of three cannons failed to satisfy Clifford's critics. But last fall, while...
...former Paris bureau chief and senior editor of the World section who took over as chief of correspondents and assistant managing editor last February. Not only had Mengistu agreed to the exclusive interview that appears in this week's issue but the government also placed a Soviet-built Mi-17 helicopter at the disposal of the TIME group, which included Nairobi Bureau Chief James Wilde and Photographer William Campbell. They were given a glimpse of Ethiopia rarely seen by Western journalists. On a side trip to Holeta (pop. 3,000), 27 miles west of Addis Ababa, Muller met the current...
Trinidad is, in fact, a dirt-and-brickpaved town where the gravest safety threat is the street life, with its unnerving mix of horses, chickens and pickup trucks. Though dozens of drug-processing labs are scattered throughout the region's 77,220 sq. mi. of swamp and jungle, Trinidad is not a major cocaine center. Some locals are bitter that more modern cities farther south are siphoning off the side benefits of the cocaine trade. "Five years ago half the hotels and restaurants were filled year round with narco traffickers," sighs Jorge Lorgio Zambrana, 48, a hotel owner...