Word: humaneness
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Blues ("But they must be originals," they cry) and front-line soldiers so desperate to believe in an outside world that they memorize TIME stories about the Paula Jones episode. "How much can you read about victims? After a while you want to read about people as human beings. Then their victimization seems all the more egregious," says Sacco. "I'm interested in the little things, like what people still care about when they've been deprived of everything: jeans, lipstick, Pulp Fiction, what's happening...
...pick up some magazine assignments--covering the wars in Africa, for example, or the Rudy Giuliani-Hillary Clinton race. But he concedes there isn't much cash to be made in drawing long, depressing cartoon strips. That's when he starts to sketch a disturbing-looking chicken with a human head who's misunderstood by both human and chicken communities. He calls it the Human Poultry Item. "This is the character who's going to make me rich," he says. And sad as it is, that chicken-man does seem easier to understand than Bosnia...
Anil Tissera, 33, a forensic anthropologist, returns to the Sri Lanka she left at age 18 as one member of a U.N. team allowed into the country by the government to investigate alleged human rights violations, i.e., death-squad murders. Her assigned partner in this seven-week enterprise is a Sri Lankan archaeologist named Sarath Diyasena, 49, who is, by virtue of his position, a government employee. Anil immediately wonders whether her co-worker will be helping her or reporting on her to his employees. "Can I trust you?" she asks him. His reply: "You have to trust...
...future will we be able to live on Earth? Be able to explore one-zillionth percent of the universe? Be able to provide water for all people? Morally survive the ability to clone human beings? STEFAAN VAN LANGENDONCK Heverlee, Belgium...
Nantucket historian Nathaniel Philbrick has now re-examined the old tale, after digging up just about every scrap ever written about it. In the Heart of the Sea (Viking; 302 pages; $24.95) is a spellbinding yarn, and, like Melville's classic, awash with human frailty...