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Another Day in the Drop Zone

Outside Magazine
They fly into lands of hunger and madness, dispensing food while warlords dispense terror from the barrel of a gun. They trade safety and comfort for the sharp edge of altruism, predictable careers for the daily bread of death and disease. They’re relief workers ... (Read more)

Open Sesame

The New Republic
North Korea opens up.
June 12, 2000
In early 1995, Tony Namkung received a phone call from a diplomat at the North Korean mission to the United Nations. Would it be possible, the diplomat asked, to arrange for the magician David Copperfield to perform in Pyongyang? ... (Read more)

Is Prayer the Best Medicine?

Talk
At Duke University, researchers are testing a time-honored and potentially explosive premise: that prayer, even from the other side of the world, can actually help heal the sick.
June 2000
The woman is enmeshed in the wondrous gadgetry of modern medicine. A rotating X-ray machine swings ... (Read more)

Court Martial

The New Republic
An Islamic militia gains ground in Somalia.
March 13, 2000
Over the past decade Somalia has earned a reputation as the world capital of senseless violence. It scores almost as high in the poverty department. The coastal city of Merca, then, is that strangest of phenomena–a ... (Read more)

James Nachtwey’s Inferno

George
For more than a decade, photographer James Nachtwey has chronicled the war zones of the world–Rwanda, Bosnia and Chechnya among them. Now, a new book, Inferno, brings us his vision of hell on earth.
December 1999
When you drove into wartime Sarajevo along Sniper Alley, ... (Read more)

Serbia on the Couch

Talk
Tijana Mandic was the therapist of choice for Belgrade’s cultural elite. Then a war-scarred veteran came under her care, and the horror of his battles in the Balkans began to haunt her dreams.
December 1999
“Say out loud that you feel repelled looking into the eyes of a murderer,” ... (Read more)

Get Ready, Here Comes the Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle

The New York Times Magazine
Star Wars missile defense: the sequel.
September 26, 1999
Dale Reis and Jerry Lockard lead the way into a land of secrets. Reis punches in a code and a locked door clicks open with the metallic sound of a bullet clip sliding into place. They enter an arena ... (Read more)

To Enter Heaven, Click Here

Talk
Isaac Tigrett wants to do good. But can he do well?
September 1999
When you walk into Isaac Tigrett’s house in Sherman Oaks, California, you feel you are entering a church whose pastor has a spiritual version of multiple-personality disorder. Tibetan prayer flags hang from the ... (Read more)

I Am Elena. You Will Fly Now.

Outside Magazine
There, up there in the Arizona sky! It’s the cream of the once-mighty Soviet machine! Now pulling G’s at an airport near you.
July 1999
Elena Klimovich is tying me down. She tightens the straps around my hips, fastens the cords that pin my shoulders in ... (Read more)

Balkan War Criminals: The Most Wanted

George
The war in Yugoslavia is so complicated that it’s sometimes hard to tell the players without a scorecard. Well, here it is–a list of the Balkans’ bad guys.
June 1999
1. Slobodan Milosevic. In 1987, Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic made a promise to a crowd ... (Read more)