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Balog, 40, is no stranger to wildlife photography. He has traveled to Kenya, China and Siberia, and his photographs have appeared in LIFE, National Geographic, Geo and Smithsonian. Balog's 1990 book, Survivors: A New Vision of Endangered Wildlife, a collection of animal portraits taken in zoos, circuses and on wildlife ranches around the world, won the prestigious Leica Medal of Excellence. Though this is his first TIME cover, his work has already been featured in the magazine, including a photo of a 13-year-old teaching two septuagenarians at a computer terminal, which ran in TIME's Machine...
...demanded passage to New York City. On Feb. 11, a 20-year-old Ethiopian armed with a starter's pistol pirated a Lufthansa jet to J.F.K. Airport, only to be promptly arrested. Last Saturday, a man tentatively identified as an Azeri commandeered a Russian jetliner on a flight from Siberia to St. Petersburg and demanded to be flown to New York. Persuaded to believe that the aircraft did not have enough fuel to cross the Atlantic, the hijacker agreed to stop in Tallinn, Estonia, then Stockholm, Sweden, where he finally surrendered...
...crashing comet, wayward black hole or alien spacecraft level the forest around Tunguska, Siberia, in 1908? None of the above. A computer model by NASA scientists revealed that the likely culprit was a stony asteroid -- 30 m (100 ft.) in diameter -- that exploded...
...with Salman Rushdie and turned in a 132-page manuscript to Conde Nast Traveler on his recent trip to eastern Nepal, from which he brought back photographs of prints that may support the existence of the yeti, or Abominable Snowman. He has two books just off the presses -- on Siberia and Africa. In between all these activities, he is working on the second part of his semifictional "Watson Trilogy," based on a real-life Florida murderer, and is preparing to lead a tour group into remote Bhutan for more investigations of the crane...
...bigger the job, the better. At one time, Soviet scientists seriously considered changing the course of Siberia's rivers. Economists have repeatedly tried to package the country's development into neat five-year -- if not 500- day -- plans. The strategy does achieve results: Russians built the marvelous city of St. Petersburg out of a desolate, frozen swamp and launched the first satellite into space. They just have not fared as well in producing regular supplies of soap and toilet paper...