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...person Brown hardly seems the type to raise hell. Gracious, soft spoken and unassuming, he is above all steadfastly committed to his work. He didn't begin writing until he turned 29. At the time, he was working as a fireman, having joined the department after a stint in the Marines. "I had a good job," he says. "I just didn't want to do it for 30 years. I got to where the only thing I wanted was to write...
...celebration of the 30th anniversary of this event [SPECIAL EDITION, April-May]. As a marine biologist, I am gravely concerned about the delicate balance of the aquatic ecosystem and how it will be affected by global warming. I was appalled, however, by the choice of Leonardo DiCaprio to write about global warming. DiCaprio has adopted a facade of "caring" about the environment, but ethically he had no problem starring in a movie like The Beach, for which the production team altered the beach in one of Thailand's most cherished natural parks. Do I smell free publicity here or what...
QUOTE "One of the things that inspires me to write is the dearth of material that treats everybody--black, white, Latino, mixed--as people instead of some add-water-and-stir stereotype...
When TIME asked me to write about my 84-year-old father and his descent into Alzheimer's disease, frankly I figured the article would never appear. Too much of a downer. But it did (TIME, Aug. 30, 1999), and nine months later, I'm still hearing from readers. Many have written to console me with similar stories about their parents. One reader sent me cookies. Gil Morris, of Denton, Texas, sent me a song he had recorded about his mother called Her Broken Heart. Some wrote to tell me about families torn apart by the decisions...
...people outside this culture understand very much about them--not their unnerved teachers, not the phobic journalists who write about them, not the politicians who prattle on about Web porn...