Polly Wischmann, 82: After graduating from Circle High, Polly Wischmann trained as a nurse and enlisted in the Army on March 15, 1945, after her brother was severely injured in Belgium. Assigned to an Army hospital in California, she cared for soldiers who had been POWs held by Japan. She went to college on the GI Bill, eventually working at a hospital and a nursing home. Today, she writes a column for the weekly Circle Banner newspaper.
This winter, U.S. News & World Report photographer Jim Lo Scalzo drove the length of the U.S.-Mexican border from El Paso, Texas, to San Diego, Calif.
(3/10/06)
Yemen, an impoverished Muslim nation on the Arabian Peninsula, became a surprising U.S. ally in the wake of September 11. A look at the country and its people
(3/3/06)
