Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...K.L.A., which would infuriate Milosevic. Standing on the runway, Holbrooke phones State Department spokesman James Rubin, catching him just before the daily briefing. The meeting with K.L.A. rebels was a "complete setup," Holbrooke insists, not an official meeting. Sending a cable home, Holbrooke likens the entire province to "the Wild West." Either side could start a war, he adds, "through miscalculation or a drunken brawl...
Rumschpringes -- the "wild oats" interludes giving teenagers latitude to party before they submit to the religious strictures of the adult community -- have become the source of a mortal threat to the culture of Pennsylvania's Amish community. Abner King Stoltzfus, 23, and Abner Stoltzfus, 24 (not related) Thursday became the first Amish people ever to be arraigned on narcotics charges, after they allegedly collaborated with members of the Pagans biker gang to deal cocaine and methamphetamine at barn dances for rumschpringing Amish kids. TIME correpondent Nadya Labi notes that while the teenage time out from the conservative Amish culture...
Fiction or not, Bass's work is all of a piece, a desperate, eloquent defense of wild places, and it is not surprising to find that his first novel, Where the Sea Used to Be (Houghton Mifflin; 464 pages; $25), grows from the same earth. He used the identical title for a short story about a mystical oil geologist who, like the novel's hero, can see oil beneath mountains. The lead female character, a woman strong enough to ski for miles carrying a grown man on her back, could be the daughter of a yeti-like succubus...
Byrd's body was found on the morning of June 7, torn apart as if some wild animal had set upon it. His torso was at the side of a country road. His head and an arm were just over a mile away, ripped from his body as it hit a concrete drainage culvert. Police marked a piece of flesh here, his dentures there, his keys somewhere else--75 red circles denoting body parts and belongings along a two-mile stretch of asphalt. Fingerprints were the only key to Byrd's identity. The night before, the 49-year-old African...
...staying away from the needle, Justin produces a plastic medicine dropper and pokes his arm with it. "Calms me down," he says. "I quit smoking the same way, by sucking on a crayon." Like so many other Billings geeters--yet one more slang term--Justin is a teller of wild tales. He shows off the sunken veins in his arms and describes how he once had to gaff his shot of crank--inject it straight into his jugular vein--while watching himself in a rearview mirror. "The jugular," he says, nodding earnestly, "the only vein in the body that...