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When U.S.-led forces invaded Grenada in 1983, troops from six other tiny Caribbean island nations were right behind the Americans. Last week, at a highly contentious International Whaling Commission meeting in London, Grenada and four of its former invaders - Antigua and Barbuda, St. Lucia, Dominica and St. Vincent and the Grenadines - stood side-by-side with Japan in angry skirmishes with the U.S. and its anti-whaling allies over the future of the earth's largest mammal. Amid allegations that Japan had bought the votes of the five island states, as well as those of St. Kitts and Nevis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Whale of a Fight | 8/6/2001 | See Source »

Among the things I learned about "Planet of the Apes" director Tim Burton from the A&E "Biography" that aired Tuesday in the midst of "Biography Goes Ape Week": His childhood hero was Vincent Price. Most of the cast of "Beetlejuice" initially wanted nothing to do with the film. (Good instinct, in my opinion.) "Edward Scissorhands" was basically a relating of Burton growing up in the Hollywood uber-burb of Burbank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Bit of A Comedown From "The Planet of the Apes" | 8/3/2001 | See Source »

...databank on a per-minute basis and be billed via phone bill. Ehrmann also provides wholesale rates for banks, insurance companies and other businesses that put valuations on fine art. He may be his own best customer. He claims to have saved around $28,000 on an André Vincent Becquerel sculpture at last year's Biennale in Paris by using the Artprice.com databank to show that the asking price was too steep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Art of Information | 7/9/2001 | See Source »

...appear to be your favorite genre. Others write-ins included "The O'Reilly Factor" by Bill O'Reilly, "Barry & 'the Boys' : The CIA, the Mob and America's Secret History" by Daniel Hopsicker, "The Betrayal of America : How the Supreme Court Undermined the Constitution and Chose Our President" by Vincent Bugliosi and "At Any Cost : How Al Gore Tried to Steal the Election" by Bill Sammon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shine Up Your Library Card | 6/15/2001 | See Source »

...have never known anyone who was ill with AIDS. The last time I was in the hospital was when I had my tonsils out. If I had been born 10 years earlier, I probably would know the names of the admitting nurses at New York City's St. Vincent's hospital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIDS At 20 | 6/11/2001 | See Source »

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