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Snapshots of South Africa

How could I absorb a country in a week? Especially one as complex and contradictory as this? I couldn't. Dashing frantically from sensation to exotic sensation, at the peak of endurance every 18-hour day, I experienced the trip as a blur.
Winning the peace in Russia

My Russian opponent became Nikita Khrushchev. I was Sylvester Stallone. Or maybe Chuck Norris. Things weren't all that clear at the moment.
Green flash or no, Michigan's dune country is cool and homey

Geologists say the Sleeping Bear dune that towers 300 feet above Lake Michigan's blue-green waters here is simply a few billion tons of sand ground fine by glaciers, tugged down by gravity and piled back up by wind and waves.

Snapshots of South Africa