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...keel would probably no longer have been able to draw in seawater needed to cool the reactors. Automatic systems would have "scrammed" the reactors, pushing control rods into the core and shutting them down. The Kursk, its shattered bow shoved into a furrow of sand and heeling to port, lay silent, without power or heat or light or hope, its 118 souls dead or doomed...
Americans tend to know two things about Nigeria: Its capital is Lagos, a teeming port city on the Gulf of Guinea, and Lagos' airport is so dangerous that the U.S. government posts signs in American airports warning citizens against traveling there. But both facts are wrong. Lagos hasn't been the capital of Africa's most populous nation since December 12, 1991, when it moved here to Abuja. And last December, with help from the Clinton administration, those signs warning of danger at the Lagos airport came down after the new Nigerian government beefed up security. Direct flights between...
...slowly setting behind me as my campaign paddle wheeler, the Mark Twain, steams into port in Hannibal, Missouri - the final stop on a nearly 400-mile trek down the Mississippi River. As you know from your own trip down this great waterway (captured in a recent special issue of TIME magazine), life on the Mississippi is nothing short of spectacular...
That's Wyclef: you can't pin him down, not to one instrument, not to one style, not even to one country. He was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, but raised in Brooklyn, N.Y., and Newark, N.J. He's a rapper and a singer, an entertainer with an ear to the streets and an eye on the top of the charts. He has written and produced hits for Santana and Whitney Houston and has also worked with Destiny's Child and Sinead O'Connor. "He's like a chameleon," says Melky Jean, Wyclef's sister and frequent supporting vocalist...
Fame and fortune could easily have skipped over Wyclef, 29. "I grew up poor," he says, recalling his childhood in Port-au-Prince. "I had two pairs of pants for the whole year, one pair of shoes. Sometimes I'd go to school barefooted." When he was nine, the woman he thought was his mother told him she was actually his aunt and that his real parents, who had left the country when he was four, were ready to take him to the U.S. Instead of feeling betrayed, he was overjoyed. "I always felt I would be in the ghetto...