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Aside from the captains' early floggings of disobedient underlings, this was the party's only violent act. More remarkable, perhaps, is how much violence the explorers avoided, despite their varied ethnic and racial backgrounds and the ceaseless frustrations of the trip. It's an inspiring thought--the melting pot on the march--but like most simple images of the famous journey, it doesn't tell the full story, or even half of it. For every uplifting aspect of the tale, there's a difficult, melancholy sidelight, which may well be the secret of its abiding power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lewis and Clark | 7/8/2002 | See Source »

...easy call. Experts suggest watching for changes in behavior, especially sudden ones. Has a formerly sociable mom become taciturn and isolated? Does Dad suddenly find paying the bills stressful? Does he have trouble seeing when he drives at night? Have there been serious lapses of memory or judgment, a pot left unattended on the stove, a large check written to a con artist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Elder Care: Ticklish Times | 6/24/2002 | See Source »

...Sept. 11, he has found the international community more sympathetic to the idea of India waging its own war on terror against jihadis in the contended state of Jammu and Kashmir, where many of them have been inserted by Pakistan. And it plays well for India to keep the pot boiling: New Delhi can claim a victim's solidarity with the U.S., avoid addressing the awkward issue of its heavy-handed rule in Muslim-dominated Kashmir?and just possibly get Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf to actually shut down the jihadi industry on his territory, ending what India calls a "proxy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Asleep at The Wheel? | 6/10/2002 | See Source »

...Chicken Pot...

Author: By Amit R. Paley and Eugenia B. Schraa, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: A Roller-Coaster Year for Dining Halls | 6/6/2002 | See Source »

...hard to be Santa all day,” Franken says. “Winnie the Pooh was pretty awful too because it was this big costume and you looked through the honey pot and these kids would just slam themselves into...

Author: By Anne K. Kofol, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Oh The Things He Knows | 6/5/2002 | See Source »

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