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With autumn absent from our daily urban lives, we have to make a special effort to take notice of it. Jews have the advantage of the holiday of Sukkot, which starts tonight. By dining outside in a booth, under a roof of branches, the Sukkot holiday forces observant Jews back into contact with nature at a time of year when attention ought to be paid...

Author: By Ira E. Stoll, | Title: The Fall (and Foliage) of Cambridge | 9/29/1993 | See Source »

...comfortable wealth of her Danish father, a physician and scientist. Smilla knows both science and snow, but she is too rebellious to work regularly for the ruling Danes. She is at loose ends in Copenhagen when a six-year-old Eskimo boy she has befriended slips from the snowy roof of their apartment house and is killed. An accident, of course; but the boy, Smilla knows, wouldn't normally have been running on the roof, as his tracks show. And wouldn't have slipped on snow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Big Hit, A Small Miss | 9/13/1993 | See Source »

...Kyushu, 930 miles south of Tokyo. The ocean that surges and rolls within it, chlorinated and free of salt, has a clearly defined width of 462 ft. and washes a shoreline 280 ft. long, composed of 600 tons of crushed, polished pebbles, all under a 660-ft. retractable roof. The chirping of birds is filtered through a sound system and echoes in the air even as plastic palm trees flutter in a piped-in breeze. When it officially opens this week, 10,000 people at a time will be able to play in the temperature-controlled waters of this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Welcome to the Great Indoors | 8/2/1993 | See Source »

...Mike has returned to the house in a neighbor's boat to inspect it; late last week 6 ft. of water sloshed around the living room. The family, plus two Chow show dogs and two Persian cats, is living in Mike's blue 1992 Bronco; Mike sleeps on the roof. Nearby, the roof of the family's second car, a 1977 Cutlass, is barely visible above the water. "It's a goner," says Mike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Flood, Sweat and Tears | 7/26/1993 | See Source »

...from the fridge, kick back in his air-conditioned second-story sitting room and listen to music, all thanks to a power line that hasn't been turned off. His brother Ray, 60, isn't so fortunate. "That's my house over there," he says, pointing to a blue roof just above the waterline. "I left my house in the 1973 flood, and they stole everything I had. There's no way I'm leaving this time." So he sits on Walter's second-story porch, just 1 ft. above the Mississippi, and watches debris from Minnesota and Wisconsin, Iowa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Flood, Sweat and Tears | 7/26/1993 | See Source »

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