Word: journeyer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Begin your journey at the Raven Site Ruin, one of the few archaeological digs where you don't have to be an archaeologist to dig in. Located near Springerville (about four hours east of Phoenix), the prehistoric site was a pottery-manufacturing center occupied by the Anasazi and Mogollon Indians until it was abandoned some 600 years ago. These days the site offers hands-on excavation programs that last from one day to one week (children must be at least nine years of age). Mornings are spent digging with trained archaeologists; afternoons include hikes to nearby petroglyphs (ancient rock drawings...
Though many Harvard students journey to Florida for spring break, only a select few spend their time learning the native flora, sampling lakes and watching out for alligators...
...year-old girl who, mirroring her dad, is already politically savvy. "If this conflict does not come to an end," says McConville, "I will be visiting her either in prison or the graveyard. It has to end." He regrets nothing he has done. "It was a necessary journey," he says. "A political approach [to the problems of the Catholic community] would not have worked in 1975." Only violence, he believes, not without reason, got the attention of the British and the world...
...number of the key men--and some of the women--who negotiated the settlement inside a mundane office building in Belfast shared McConville's journey through violence, prison and now political accommodation. In the 1970s Gusty Spence, a senior member of the Ulster Volunteer Force, an illegal Protestant paramilitary group, was so famous that after he was sentenced to prison for murder, tea towels with his picture on them were sold on the streets of Belfast. "We exorcised our ghosts in prison," says Spence, who is on the negotiating team of the Progressive Unionist Party. "We were self-questioning...
...picked up a Bible and found this verse staring him in the face: "Take nothing with you for the journey." Two times the next day, he came across the same passage in different parts of the Bible...