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...know these details because Lewis and Clark kept perhaps the most complete journals in the history of human exploration. We can look over their shoulders as they and their party of 31 contend with hunger, disease, blizzards, broiling sun, boiling rapids, furious grizzly bears and unrelenting plagues of tormenting "musquetors." We know about the Indians who helped them, and we know that they had to eat dogs and horses to survive. We are in the canoe with Clark when he writes, "Ocian in view! O! the joy," straining to hear the waves breaking on the shore he had sought...
...Baumgartner and other Denver officials argue that more profiling needs to be done, not less. With limited resources, they contend, too much time is wasted on random screening of toddlers and grandmothers, and too much emphasis is put on the objects people carry rather than on the people carrying them. They want more information about passengers put into the airlines' computer data bank, information that would enable veteran flyers with clean records to escape the shakedowns and allow more scrutiny of those who may pose a risk. As Baumgartner puts it, "Aunt Mildred is not the problem...
...planning to build on what we have: organize it around a challenging newsmaker interview, then have a roundtable. George Will will stay, but we'll bring in some fresh voices to contend with him. We'll probably redesign the set in a way that's comfortable for me. Get a chair that really fits me, nothing radical...
...that were not enough, there are entrenched telecom monopolies, local media companies and wary regulators to contend with. Malone learned that lesson the hard way earlier this year in Germany, when powerful private broadcasters like RTL and public providers such as ARD and ZDF did their best to block him. "A scheme in which one player controls the heart of TV's infrastructure is against open competition," says Didier Bellens, CEO of RTL Group, which is controlled by Bertelsmann. Given that kind of opposition, it wasn't surprising that after spending months negotiating a deal to purchase six of Deutsche...
...thousands of Japanese visitors stayed home?all counter to inflated estimates from the Tourism Ministry just a month ago. Other predictions seem equally shaky: although South Korea may now be registering in minds around the world as a wired wonder, could it really be true, as in-house analysts contend, that KT, Korea's largest telecom company, gained $4.2 billion in global media exposure from...