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Relocation of the Navajo is the Government's unhappy answer to a quarrel that predates the white man's arrival in the American West. The Hopi, a band of sedentary farmers, crafted the earliest of their distinctive apartment-like stone dwellings atop steep mesas in northern Arizona almost a millennium ago. The Navajo, a fast-growing tribe of hunters turned shepherds, arrived about 500 years later but proved more aggressive and dynamic. Eventually, the Navajo and their herds outnumbered and surrounded the Hopi and their crops. Hopi Chairman Ivan Sidney, 37, portrays his tribe as a peaceful people provoked...
Even so, the steep upward direction of stocks prompted traders to hang on to their investments over the weekend rather than sell them off to lock in profits. The mood was still ebullient when the market reopened. The Dow leaped 29.74 on Tuesday and 25.25 on Wednesday to a record 1878.28. The unprecedented four-day rise was 103.11, which more than recouped the index's recent losses. The Dow inched ahead 4.07 on Thursday to set another record close and then slipped back 5.64 on Friday to end the week...
Middle-class baby boomers are overtaking the rich and elderly as the primary clients. Typically, 25 years ago, three-quarters of the customers were the wives of executives. Now half the women guests are themselves high up on the corporate ladder. They can afford the steep tariff, generally $1,500 to $3,000 a week, and consider it a necessity to get away when they are feeling frayed. Explains Michele Roskov, 27, a TV and film producer in Los Angeles: "It is an appointment with myself. The rest of the year is spent on appointments with everyone else." Another change...
...purgatory," Owner Anne- Marie Bennstrom cheerfully confesses. Others would place it further below. "You can come to us anytime, even the middle of the night, if you feel like crying," Fitness Instructor Anniqa Foress says, to soothe newcomers. The twelve-year-old Ashram is notorious for hiking trails so steep and narrow that the only escape is to keep going up. After one laborious climb, Barbara Borkin, a vice president of Halston Fragrances in New York City, muttered, "War and Peace wasn't this long." The meals are justly infamous as well. "You eat here only what you throw away...
...with foreign wanderlust, new destinations beckon. Qantas, the Australian airline, has had a 40% increase in U.S. passengers during the past twelve months. Hong Kong, Singapore and other Asian locales expect to see more Americans as well, although the surging value of the yen has aggravated Japan's already steep prices for foreigners. African countries, most of which can sorely use tourist dollars, should also get a boost. During the first two months of this year, Pan Am carried 4,800 Americans to Africa, about 10% more than in the same period last year. South American countries, notably Brazil...