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Sometimes the greatest journeys are undertaken not by professional sailors but by regular folks, those of us who are, in Melville's words, "pent up in lath and plaster--tied to counters, nailed to benches, clinched to desks." Nathaniel Stone had a desk job at a newspaper in New Mexico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Writing The Waves | 7/15/2002 | See Source »

The State Department won't say whether a cash payment is involved, but they will confirm some assistance is forthcoming. "We have decided to target some of the reconstruction assistance in that area," says State spokesman Richard Boucher. Afghan officials say villagers in the Deh Rawood district are soon to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Afghans Say U.S. to Help Wedding Victims | 7/10/2002 | See Source »

In the future, every U.S. citizen will get to be Sacagawea for 15 minutes. For the low price of admission, every American, regardless of race, religion, gender and age, will climb through the portal into Sacagawea's Shoshone Indian brain. In the multicultural theme park called Sacagawea Land, you will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Sacagawea Means To Me (and Perhaps to You) | 7/8/2002 | See Source »

Looking back, the Sioux had it right. Jefferson had told Lewis to inform "those through whose country you will pass" that "henceforth we become their fathers and friends, and that we shall endeavor that they shall have no cause to lament the change." But whites brought diseases that killed as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tribal Culture Clash | 7/8/2002 | See Source »

Grizzlies once occupied the grasslands of the Dakotas, where they fed on bison that had drowned in rivers, as well as the Pacific Coast, where they fed on stranded whales. These were grizzlies of prodigious size and power, bold as the noon sun. But the waves of humanity sent the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grizzly's Last Stand | 7/8/2002 | See Source »

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