Guinea

The Soccer Flayer......who mistook his opponent for a hat. Guinea's Souleymane Oulare models the latest in smart millinery—Cameroon's Marc Vivien Foe.

I am no more superstitious than the next man (the next man happens to hail from the Cameroons and is crouched on his hams shrinking his uncle's head over a slow fire).—S.J. PERELMAN

Three Americans set off to climb 16,023-foot Carstensz Pyramid, a mysterious, haze-shrouded peak in New Guinea, but first they must contend with ghosts and an ominous jungle. Part I of a two-part story

The brothers Bibby began competing against each other on a small farm outside Franklinton, N.C. Now they're competing as pro athletes, Jim as a Pittsburgh pitcher, Henry as a San Diego guard. Rick Telander describes...

In a soliloquy by the sea, thoughts flow out with the tide. The mind empties and the pendulum of surf keeps time imprecisely. Seashells are picked up and turned over in the hand, and a man seeking new meanings...