Sailing around the world is the nautical equivalent of climbing Everest. Making the circumnavigation alone and without stopping for supplies or rest is a bit like making the ascent without oxygen or sherpas. To undertake…More
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Vietnam’s ‘Dust Children’ in Limbo — U.S. Law Grants Visas to Those With American Features, But Some Are Still Denied
HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam — Any Vietnamese resident who has “American facial features” and was born between 1962 and 1976 is entitled to an American immigrant visa. So why are two young men who…More
Rich Men Sail Big Boats Down Under
AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND — The America’s Cup is just getting underway, but another contest, one with billionaire skippers and much bigger boats, concluded here last week. Yachts owned by Netscape founder Jim Clark, duty-free-stores billionaire…More
On a Swift Boat to China — Chinese Officials Grant Passage To Western Yachtsmen For a Two-Legged Race
HONG KONG — Sailing down the middle of choppy Victoria Harbor, surrounded by impatient coastal freighters and the city’s glimmering office towers, we are discussing safety equipment — the harnesses that will tether us to…More
Thais at wit’s end with wayward elephants POOR PACHYDERMS Like Thai humans, domesticated elephants suffer from expanding unemployment
Bangkok — Perched on the roof of his van, Roger Lohanan guides a powerful search light across tropical vegetation, hoping to spot an elephant. Eventually, a bare-chested boy emerges from the bush and says a…More
Publishers Cater To Captive Audience For Unsold Books — Bored Prisoners Will Read Anything They Can Get; It’s `a Key to Our Cells’
“The objective of this missive is an appeal for knowledge,” begins a two-page letter from Francisco Garcia to “Dear Schuster,” at the New York office of Simon & Schuster. Mr. Garcia, until recently an inmate…More
No Offense: Big Retail Chains Get Special Advance Looks At Magazine Contents — Wal-Mart, Many Others Bar Some Issues as Too Racy, Cite Customer Concerns — People’s Publisher Says ‘No’
Early in February, Cosmopolitan shipped an advance copy of its March issue to the magazine buyer for Winn-Dixie supermarkets. On Feb. 12, the buyer e-mailed the company’s 1,186 stores saying the chain wouldn’t carry the…More
Hard Copy: Magazine Advertisers Demand Prior Notice Of `Offensive’ Articles — Big Companies Like Chrysler Want to Know Contents, And Publishers Acquiesce — Sexual, Political, Social Issues
When Esquire Editor in Chief Edward Kosner abruptly killed a short story about a gay man who writes college term papers in exchange for sex, he sought to calm the ensuing uproar by declaring he…More
The Pen Is Mightier: At the Stars and Stripes, Johnny Gets His Pad And Barks, `Why, Sir?’ — Paper Digs Up Tough Stories Regarding the Pentagon, Which Has to Print Them — Fewer Readers, Bloated Staff
GAJEVI, Bosnia and Herzegovina — Arriving at the scene of a pitched gun battle between Muslim civilians and Serb police, Jeffrey Smith approaches an angry crowd of Muslims, his pen and pad at the ready….More
High-Wire Act: Instincts That Took Newsweek’s Editor To Top Save Him Now — Maynard Parker’s Bosses Back Him After Role in Hiding `Primary Colors’ Author — `Scrambling the Jets’ Weekly
How do you fall for a sensational forgery, help cover up a spectacular literary lie, and still hold on to one of the most prestigious jobs in journalism? For the answer to that question, meet…More
