Word: homewards
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Scotland, old codgers like me don't buy into the fairy tale that these are the Best Years of Our Life. They know better. If life is a journey, then your 60s are the homeward leg when you're hung up in an airport and thinking bad thoughts about your travel agent. Your shoes have been x-rayed, your flight is delayed, you're trapped in a lounge full of idiots with those dangly cell phones and voices like chainsaws. You'd like to tell them to get lost. But in America we've seen a serious erosion...
...also drafted a corps, made up of contributors who have a longtime affinity for the story. Novelist Walter Kirn, who lives near the Yellowstone River, which Clark traveled on his homeward trip, writes for us about the tale's creation of a kind of utopian ideal for America's journey through history. Author Landon Jones, a former Time Inc. magazine editor who is making a second career out of his fascination with the explorers (he also serves as a director of the National Council of the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial), gives us a profile of the co-captains, showing...
...slopes of Maui's Haleakala volcano. Researchers at the Maui Forest Bird Recovery Project finally captured one of the two remaining females last month. At dusk the female was released into the territory of the only remaining male. But the next morning, the female po'ouli fluttered homeward without ever encountering the unaware male. "We're disappointed," said project coordinator Jim Groombridge, "but hopeful...
...Washington may already be feeling the heat of Arab anger over its failed intervention. President Hosni Mubarak on Wednesday called off a meeting with the homeward-bound Secretary of State, citing ill health and sending his foreign minister instead. Mubarak's diplomatic snubs are typically packaged in claims of being otherwise indisposed, although Powell read no negative message into the Egyptian president's begging off. Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri is meeting with President Bush Wednesday, and is expected to register Arab disappointment with the administration's peace efforts so far. Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Abdullah is expected...
...Homeward Bound...