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...Monday I finally get in touch with Jane Fossett, the vice-chair of the Mohegan tribe. She tells me the sad history of the tribe and how the money generated by the casino will go to fund health care and housing for the elderly. I ask her--after she concedes that "ownership isn't part of our culture"--if there is a contradiction in the tribe entering a business venture that grates against its traditional values. But she shrugs off the question as naive. "We have to live in a non-Indian world," she lectures me, "and in order...
...BRUNSWICK, CANADA: Millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett's attempt to be the first person to circle the globe nonstop in a balloon ended Wednesday with a forced landing in a Canadian farmer's field, just 1,800 miles into the trip. The 51-year-old Fossett, who has climbed some of the world's tallest peaks, set records in ballooning and sailing and completed Alaska's 1,100-mile Iditarod Sled Dog Race, lifted off from South Dakota's Black Hills early Monday and immediately ran into trouble. A faulty autopilot system, extreme cold and a dead heater left him with...
Often switching careers is a "magnificent success," says U.C.L.A. Education Placement Director Claude Fossett, and occasionally "men fall flat on their faces." The reasons for change, although obviously sometimes altruistic, sometimes self-seeking and almost always highly personal, are not well understood. Perhaps eventually the Columbia project, financed by a $100,000 Ford Foundation grant, will illuminate the motivations and prospects of those who are hopelessly dissatisfied with life at midcareer...