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...northern plains was threatened by the Americans' plans to begin trading with the neighboring tribes. One morning, while camping in what is now Montana, Lewis awoke to a struggle between an underling and an Indian who was trying to steal a rifle. Moments later, one Blackfoot brave lay fatally stabbed, and another was bleeding from the gut, cut down by a bullet from Lewis...
...medals certainly were handsome. And then there was Lewis, of course, the chronic depressive who may have reached his spiritual high point somewhere back along the wild Missouri. In 1809, while on his way to Washington to defend his expense report to a bureaucrat in the War Department, he lay down in a Tennessee inn and shot himself...
...slowest-reproducing land mammals of North America, grizzlies generally don't breed until their sixth year of life, and then the cubs--usually one or two, but occasionally three-- remain with their mother for nearly three years, learning the lay of the land--where to find food and security in all the various seasons. Sometimes the Forest Service closes gates to various logging roads to help give the bears security from humans, but the opening and closing of these roads is erratic, unpredictable to the bears and their maternal culture of instruction. In the Northern Continental Divide ecosystem--Lewis...
Andrew Sullivan has given an eloquent voice to the very real frustrations that we lay Roman Catholics have experienced, not only in the wake of the recent scandals, but in our everyday lives [RELIGION, June 17]. The threat to the church in America is very real, and Sullivan is correct that the voice of change must come not from the hierarchy but from the congregation. Perhaps one upside to this scandal is that we Catholics are finally beginning to open a dialogue for change. As a gay Catholic who has struggled with my desire for a spiritual life...
...never made it on to the street. Two assassins with AK-47assault rifles were waiting in the bushes shrouding the driveway. As Qadir's dark blue Land Cruiser nosed out of the white grill gates they leapt up and opened fire. Two minutes later the gunmen were gone, Qadir lay dying and the country was once again in turmoil...