He was hired as an associate editor at “Time” in March 1993. He wrote Time?s coverage of the California fires this past year and wrote an indepth piece on the family of a woman Dr. Jack Kevorkian helped commit suicide. Previously he has occupied writing positions at “Life”, “People”, and “The Washington Post Sunday Magazine”. He wrote cover stories for each of those three magazines including the October 1991 “Life” issue. He has reported from Washington, D.C. for People and from Bonn with “Time” (in 1980 as a stringer).