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...said that journalism is a first rough draft of history. If so, then some news events are of such lasting significance that they deserve a second draft. Last January, as allied bombers launched a massive airborne offensive against Iraq, it became clear to Joanne Pello, a vice president of the Time Inc. Book Co., that the stream of words and images appearing in TIME's pages were the grist of a good book. Pello discussed the possibility with her colleagues and then approached us. "We realized that this was a subject in which TIME had particular photographic and editorial expertise...
...studied the more-than-skin-deep particulars of traditional towns and cities from Charleston to New Orleans to Georgetown, and of the great prewar suburbs, such as Mariemont, Ohio. They've looked at how streets were laid out, how landmarks were placed, the intermingling of stores and houses, the rough consistency of buildings' cornice lines and materials. They've measured the optimal distances between houses across the street and next door, figured out just what encourages walking (narrow streets, parked cars, meaningful destinations) and reckoned the outer limit of a walkable errand (a quarter mile). They have tried to discern...
Haynes dines on controversy. His previous picture was the rough, wickedly funny Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story, a sort of Valley of the Dolls (but with real dolls) that was suppressed by the Carpenter family. Poison is a more somber affair. The shock comes not from any graphic sex, for there is none, but from the pristine virtuosity of Haynes' craft. In three interlocking stories inspired by Jean Genet, this homoerotic Intolerance details the . toxicity of prejudice, fear and disease, as played out in a tumid hothouse of forbidden sexual longing. A scientist who turns leprous when he drinks...
...present, such developments are just dreams. "Buckyballs," stresses Berkeley's Hawkins, "are still so new and special that we can only hope they will be new and special in useful ways." But most researchers are betting that the sooty spheres with the playful name are diamonds in the rough...
...tried to annul new federal tariffs, Jackson sent soldiers to Charleston harbor and muttered about marching south with 50,000 men. William Henry Harrison was the hero of Tippecanoe; Ulysses Grant served under Zachary Taylor in the Mexican War, before going on to glory at Vicksburg and Appomattox; and Rough Rider Teddy Roosevelt, mustache bristling, charged up San Juan Hill and into American mythology. In Eisenhower, one of the century's greatest generals, America found one of its better Presidents...