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Upholding an American tradition that stretches from the early pioneers to Mark Twain to the Merry Pranksters, a caravan of TIME journalists set off across the country last week. With due ceremony, they dipped their hands in the waters of the Atlantic Ocean, then boarded a Greyhound bus in Ocean City, Md. They followed no campaign trail, no flood line, no militia uprising, but rather the road itself--U.S. Highway 50. "As reporters, we regularly fly to crisis spots and world capitals," says managing editor Walter Isaacson, who caught up with the bus in Cincinnati on Thursday...
...also not worried about getting pigeonholed for his style and outlook. "'Dark' is a good word, it seems to me." But he modestly disavows the book jacket's comparison of him to Mark Twain and Nathanael West, saying, "these are nice people, but they needed to say something...
...eight-week treatment, he said, and he advises first-day backsliders not to throw good money after bad. But aspiring quitters of all stripes are a notoriously quixotic bunch, whose "quit days" can quickly pile up seven to a week. Hope springs eternal, and Mark Twain did it lots of times...
...Clinton played golf with Greg Norman, ogled the scalloped opera house in Sydney and stomped through a rain forest near the Great Barrier Reef. No matter where Clinton went to get away, he found himself deflecting questions about Huang and his former boss, Indonesian banker James T. Riady. "Mark Twain said every dog should have a few fleas," the President quipped; "keeps them from worrying so much about being...
Missouri, the birth state of Mark Twain and once the gateway to the West, the starting point of the Pony Express and the Santa Fe Trail, is a microcosm of America. Politically, it has voted for every presidential winner in the 20th century except Dwight Eisenhower. Geographically, it is the center of the country, containing elements of Northern, Southern, Eastern and Western regions. Economically, it has rich farmland, thriving suburbs, big cities and impoverished ghettos. As farm communities die in the north, retirement and tourist centers like Branson flourish in the south. And it's a home to the great...