Sliding quietly along the shoreline of a lake created 12,000 years ago, when the last Ice Age retreated, brings the difference between change caused by natural process, and that wreaked by human folly, into baffling focus.… Read the rest
… Read the restAmong the many privileges of being a roving foreign correspondent is encountering stark, and sometimes edifying contradictions in the midst of chaos. Over time, they help build a prism through which to view today’s world.
Since 1973, I’ve reported on wars, civil upheavals, famines, natural disasters, and uncountable non-hazardous news events in nearly 100 countries on six continents.