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That's one way to start telling the story. Here is another: One day in November 1994, George Lucas dropped his three adopted kids off at school. He came home, climbed the stairs to his study, got a pad of yellow ruled paper and a box of Ticonderoga No. 2 pencils. And in the same binder in which he wrote the original Star Wars, he got to work on The Phantom Menace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Ready, Set, Glow! | 4/26/1999 | See Source »

WHERE TO BEGIN A good entry point for Web newcomers with an interest in all things ecological is the appropriately named Envirolink www.envirolink.org) It boasts one of the largest and best-arranged listings of environmental organizations on the Web. Another excellent launch pad is the Amazing Environmental Organization Web Directory www.webdirectory.com...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CLICK HERE: The Web's Wild World | 4/26/1999 | See Source »

...cousin who just located Solomon Seif's burial place in Galion, Ohio, noticed on the gravestone that he had been a Civil War soldier. Konecny made note of that on a scrap of yellow legal-pad paper, and now she is spending a day at the Archives. She has been working on her German and French-Canadian family tree for 10 years, determined "to take all my family on both sides back to where they came from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Visit to the National Archives, The American People's Library | 4/19/1999 | See Source »

...support among the group members, and the exchange of ideas keeps them all writing. So far, he has produced dozens of stories about his business careers, his travels and a 55th high school reunion that will probably go into a second self-published book. He carries around a legal pad so that he can jot down ideas for more. Louise DeSalvo, who is the author of Writing as a Way of Healing and teaches memoir writing at New York City's Hunter College, urges her students to note stray thoughts that bubble up from their unconscious minds while they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Autobiography: Thanks For The Memoirs | 4/12/1999 | See Source »

Forced to try on their Commander in Chief uniforms a little earlier than they might have liked, it was no wonder so many of the presidential candidates at first went searching for camouflage. Most had planned to pad through the complexities of the post-cold war world in careful speeches in front of think tanks that would be largely ignored. Now their strengths and weaknesses are in full view: Buchanan, McCain and Gary Bauer (on leave as Family Research Council president) at least have the benefit of strong, albeit wildly different, convictions. Bush has to confront his inexperience; Elizabeth Dole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The First Big Test | 4/12/1999 | See Source »

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