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FROM THE PUBLISHER, Page 6
Flying high above the verdant Amazon jungle, TIME correspondent
Eugene Linden experienced a kind of epiphany. "I had thoughts oddly
similar to those I had when I flew in a small plane across the
Arctic -- a sense of reassurance that the world still contained
places so immense and so empty of people," recalls Linden, who
wrote this week's cover story. "But while the emptiness of the
Arctic is austere, the forest canopy that seems to extend into
infinity is choked with life."
Linden has explored the complex and sometimes tragic
relationships between humans and nature in several books, including
Silent Partners, which considers the implications of language
experiments with apes. For this week's article Linden spent ten
days crisscrossing the region by air, water and land to assess the
Amazon's chances for survival. Says Linden: "The question is
whether the concern everyone now has about the environment will
translate into meaningful action."
Washington correspondent Dick Thompson pursued that question
by joining a congressional fact-finding mission to the Amazon. The
local contingent of our jungle team, Rio de Janeiro bureau chief
Laura Lopez and reporter John Maier, made its own treks through the
region. Maier was struck by how virtually everyone in the region,
politician and peasant alike, knew that the Amazon was the subject
of intense international debate. In speaking with one poor farmer
near the Peruvian border, Maier reports, "As soon as I began asking
questions, the farmer said to me, `Whose side are you on, the
environmentalists' or ours?'" That question, Maier knew, has no
simple answer.
This week Massacre in Beijing: China's Struggle for Democracy
($5.95) will go on sale. Overseen by special projects editor Donald
Morrison, the paperback includes eyewitness accounts and analysis
of the events in Tiananmen Square from Beijing bureau chief Sandra
Burton, correspondents David Aikman and Richard Hornik and reporter
Jaime FlorCruz.