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Editors Philip Elmer-DeWitt and Charles P. Alexander, along with senior reporter Barbara Maddux, had a lot of fun matching writer and question. Jon Krakauer, best-selling author of Into Thin Air, handles "Will There Be Any Wilderness Left?" while Peter Benchley (of Jaws fame) addresses the consequences of overfishing in "What Will Be the Catch of the Day?" Richard Preston, who wrote The Hot Zone, muses about "What New Things Are Going to Kill Me?" while Dr. David Ho weighs the chances for an AIDS vaccine. Three of our staff members--Christine Gorman, Michael Lemonick and Jeffrey Kluger--tackle...
Reality check! Good and evil are not as clear, neat and tidy as one might wish. Writer Stephen J. Dubner's talks with Kaczynski in prison revealed a man who is not the archetype of evil, complete with horns, but rather a banal, pitiful human being who committed violent and immoral crimes. And so what if the Unabomber's brother David Kaczynski and David's wife are complicated human beings who had emotions other than pure altruism in making their decision to turn Ted in? Struggling with honest human emotions is not a crime...
...Senior writer Jeffrey Kluger's latest book, about moons, is called Journey Beyond Selene
...film is "too neat" to really be him, and Wigand has said that he never quite sunk to the emotional depths that his character reached. Pacino has even been quoted as saying that his character, Bergman, "was a composite of three or four people in Michael's and [co-writer] Eric Roth's mind...
EDITOR'S NOTE: TIME Daily writer Frank Pellegrini, at a ripe 27 years, has taken a leave of absence to join the Army Reserve. He is currently undergoing basic training - boot camp - and then will spend several months in an Army journalism school. Given the difficulty the armed forces are experiencing in recruiting qualified young people these days, we think his experiences and impressions are worth sharing. His dispatches, some handwritten and snail-mailed (Internet cafes are evidently not part of the standard equipment at basic training), are arriving irregularly. Here is the first, and others will be posted...