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...press run was a paltry 1,417 copies. It sold poorly. Two years later, Clark still had not received his own copy. By that time the nation was beginning to forget about Lewis and Clark. Well-publicized explorations led by John Charles Fremont through the Rockies to California and John Wesley Powell down the Colorado River eventually eclipsed the Voyage of Discovery in the public's imaginings of the West. Yet publishing would revive their reputations. New editions of the journals were published in 1893 and 1904-05, bringing the saga to life a century after it happened...
...journal, Lewis called the Blackfeet "a vicious lawless and reather an abandoned set of wretches." But today's Blackfeet want no one to forget that two of their warriors were killed in a skirmish sparked by Lewis' talk of selling arms to rival tribes. "We knew, 'There goes the neighborhood,'" says tribe member James Craven, a professor at Clark University in Vancouver, Wash. Diplomatic blunders also fueled a confrontation with the Teton Sioux, gatekeepers of the Missouri, whom Clark later called "the vilest miscreants of the savage race." LaDonna Bravebull, a Standing Rock tour guide, touts her ancestors' viewpoint...
...Forget cultural exchanges. Australian airline Qantas has concluded that in these perilous times the way to generate goodwill among nations is to have a movie star fly his own plane to cities like Paris and Hong Kong. Last week Qantas named John Travolta its "ambassador-at-large," announcing that he will pilot his wife and two kids on a 10-city "Spirit of Friendship" tour to, in the actor's words, "reach out, to cross borders, make contact" (and generate some publicity for Qantas). Travolta, who has a pilot's license, bought a Qantas Boeing 707 four years...
...Koreans, who could forget the sight of 40,000 delirious fans jumping up and down in Daejeon Stadium the night their forward Ahn Jung Hwan grabbed a 117th minute Golden Goal to knock Italy out of the World Cup? Or the 100,000 Koreans who, in the spirit of hospitality, served as volunteer supporters for other nations...
...actually broke through, what fun it was to watch the Senegalese, with their ecstatic conga-line celebrations after their unexpected goals. And the Turks, whose relentless perseverance eventually paid off when they secured a 3-2 victory over the indefatigable Koreans in the battle for third place. Who could forget the end of that match; Korean and Turkish players with their arms around one another's shoulders, saluting the Korean fans. Next time, at World Cup 2006, perhaps one of the Davids will take things a step further, capitalize on lessons learned in Japan and Korea...