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TIME PACIFIC
June 18, 2001 | No. 24

CoverCOVER STORY
A Hero's Ascent
For mountaineer Erik Weihenmayer, just crossing the street can be a risky venture. The first sightless person to reach Mount Everest's summit, he gives millions-both blind and seeing-the courage to reach for new heights

TRAVELERS ADVISORY...
LETTERS...
NOTEBOOK...
PACIFIC BEAT: Post-Olympics blues; fractured Fiji...
MILESTONES...

UNITED STATES
DIPLOMACY: Europe in Five Days...
Bush visits the Continent with a two-pronged mission: to sell Russia and irritated allies on missile defense, and to show the world he knows what he's doing Russia: Peering into the soul of President Putin

EUROPE
UNITED KINGDOM : The Tony Awards... Blair and Labour stampede to another term in office

ASIA
JAPAN: Murder the Little Children...
A classroom killing spree prompts a wave of collective self-scrutiny

MIDDLE EAST
ISRAEL: Surviving the Intifadeh... Promised they would gain their freedom from Israel, Palestinians are instead falling into crime, poverty and conflict-with one another

IRAN: Reform and the Ayatullah... Reelected President Khatami has his work cut out for him



BUSINESS
DOWNSIZING: Rank and Yank...
Why companies are grading their employees from best to worst-and giving those on the bottom the boot Lincoln Electric: How one firm avoids layoffs

SCIENCE
PALEONTOLOGY: Who Killed the Woolly Mammoth?... Stone Age hunters may have driven ancient species to extinction

INNOVATORS
CIVIC ACTIVISTS: Rebels with a Cause... From urban sprawl to personal rights, today's issues demand crafty new crusaders. We profile six who have made a difference

THE ARTS
MUSIC: Rock rises from the dead, again...
CINEMA: Keeping faith with Ingmar Bergman
BOOKS: A fresh look at a founding father

PERSONAL TIME: Your Health...
PEOPLE: Kidman cries Woolf; Bono hits Harvard...
ESSAY: Andrew Sullivan on the guyish Bush and Cheney...

 
 

 

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