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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pilgrimage and not a destination, that the afterlife is a warm awakening after the fretful dream of life. The huge best seller Embraced by the Light returns from the hereafter with the news that "all experiences can be positive." In my local bookstore, the Death and Dying section is right next to Recovery and Affirmations, and the titles themselves sound like holiday brochures: Death: The Trip of a Lifetime, Heading Toward Omega, Companion Through Darkness...
...quality of the information he provided. In the late 1960s, while running the GRU's key listening post in Rangoon, Polyakov gave the CIA everything the Soviets collected from there on the Vietnamese and Chinese armed forces. Rotated back to Moscow as head of the GRU's China section, he photographed crucial documents tracking that country's bitter split with Moscow. A CIA specialist on Sino-Soviet relations drew on rich detail from a Soviet source -- whom he learned just last week was Polyakov -- that enabled the analyst to conclude confidently that the Sino-Soviet split would persist. The paper...
Sarah Van Boven, for example, is a senior at Princeton who interned for a semester last year at the Voice of America in London. She has applied her experience reporting for the VOA's international-programming service to the task of writing for the news digest in our Chronicles section...
...cast new light not only on journalism but sometimes on their studies as well. Chitralekha Zutshi, a recent graduate of the College of Wooster in Ohio, and Kanchan Chandra, a Ph.D. candidate in political science at Harvard, have been researching, writing and fact checking for TIME International's Milestones section. "In academia facts are subordinate to theory," says Chandra. "But after this, I'll never be able to look at facts the same...
Only 14 hours after arriving home from his trip to Europe last week, President Clinton donned a pink shirt, khakis and cowboy boots to survey the epic flood that has devastated a vast section of Georgia and the Florida- Alabama panhandle. As his DC-9 descended through the clouds to the airport in Albany, Georgia, the President stared at the muddy waters of the Flint River cascading through the city streets below, washing over the roofs of stores, houses and churches. Even before stopping at a disaster-relief center, Clinton had pledged $60 million in federal disaster aid to help...