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TIME Cairo correspondent Bill Dowell faced comparable difficulties when he had to travel to Liberia to co-report our cover story. With Monrovia's main airport still under rebel control following the bloody civil war that ousted President Samuel Doe, Dowell flew in on a tiny Cessna that landed on a , makeshift airstrip. Nearby lay the charred remains of a Russian-built transport plane that had failed to make such a landing a few days earlier. Dowell also visited Francophone Ivory Coast, Senegal and Mali. Michaels, meanwhile, fanned out as far afield as Zambia, Zaire, Burkina Fasso, Nigeria, Benin...
...Roget's is a bargain. Lexicographer Robert L. Chapman has revised and reordered many of Roget's 1,000 or so mainly abstract category headings (Existence, Relation, Quantity) and made them more accessible. To these he has added 31 new topics, including Fitness, Exercise, Substance Abuse, Space Travel, Computer Science and the Environment (listing more than 100 pollutants), though some of these are rearrangements and expansions derived from previous editions...
Antibiotic-proof bacteria are spreading around the globe because of the enormous increase in tourism and business travel in recent decades. Last month a woman came to a New York City emergency room with a strain of cholera picked up in Ecuador that was impervious to a variety of antibiotics. Penicillin- resistant strains of gonorrhea, originally noted in Africa around 1976, have cropped up in the Philippines, Thailand and the Washington Heights section of New York City. Public health officials are particularly concerned about potentially fatal forms of dysentery in Central and South America that are resistant to half...
Spadea's army this week is composed of hundreds of high school and college-aged Americans from across the country. They travel in tightly-packed clusters around the Astrodome area, clamoring to get prime spots on the floor and scrambling to the front of the welcoming rally crowds. They are decked in suits and ties or fancy dresses--often they wear red or white plastic cowboy hats. And they come with a passion for the platform and for the cause...
Some bisexual women travel a similar path. Sarah Listerud, a member of a large Catholic family, arrived at Oberlin College believing marriage for her was a "given." During her sophomore year, she fell in love with a woman. She had subsequent lesbian liaisons but remained attracted to men. "I thought bisexuality was a phase I was going through before joining the lesbian community," recalls Listerud, now 29 and living in Chicago. But then, she would "bump into a guy in the cafeteria who was really cute or get a crush on a guy. Finally, it was like a little light...