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Wills-Lenglen was a great rivalry, and King-Margaret Court was a great rivalry; but Lenglen sipped brandy during changeovers, and King admits she couldn't powder the ball the way today's women can. What Navratilova taught Evert says that no woman before Martina--the original Martina--hit the ball hard, really hard. And no one since has survived without hitting hard. Also: six of the Top 10 at Flushing Meadows have won Slams, and the injured Mary Pierce would have made seven. There is power; there is depth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For Women, A Golden Age | 9/3/2001 | See Source »

...whenever his shoulder is attached to his body. He told me he had started out "mudboggin' and tug-o-warrin'" four-wheel drives. I didn't understand most of what Dennis said. After sitting down for a brief conversation, he told me my monster-truck name should be Powder Puff Boy. Then he punched me in the knee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Digging My Own Grave | 8/20/2001 | See Source »

...whenever his shoulder is attached to his body. He told me he had started out "mudboggin' and tug-o-warrin'" four-wheel drives. I didn't understand most of what Dennis said. After sitting down for a brief conversation, he told me my monster-truck name should be Powder Puff Boy. Then he punched me in the knee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Digging My Own Grave | 8/13/2001 | See Source »

...scraggly opium dealer with a green-and-blue dragon tattooed on his thin upper arm, 50 per pipe to get him off. He lay there, watching the dragon coil and uncoil as Ton flexed his arms, working to heat the night-colored opium, mixing the paste with Mr. Headache powder and then rolling it between his palms into cylinders. He broke off pieces from the roll he heated on a metal poker over an oil lamp and then fed the goo into the fired-earth bulb of a foot-long bamboo pipe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pipe Dreams | 7/30/2001 | See Source »

With 100 new wells drilled each week on prime grazing land, the once bucolic landscape of the Powder River Basin is changing dramatically and uniting old foes--ranchers and environmentalists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Controls the Land? | 7/16/2001 | See Source »

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