Word: trailed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wasn't elevated humor, but it was funny, and that's pretty much the case with 'Zeke and Ned' (Simon & Schuster; 478 pages; $25), by Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana. "Advocates for Native American rights will be flummoxed to learn that, as the authors tell it, Cherokees endured the Trail of Tears to the Indian Territory only to end up in Capp's Dogpatch," says TIME's John Skow. "McMurtry and Ossana set their story in the Cherokee town of Tahlequah, but it's Dogpatch, all right." Early in the novel the two Cherokee heroes, the legendary gunfighter Ned Christie...
Caterpillar bulldozers have completely destroyed the sacred old dirt Indian footpath that leads (and lead Thoreau) along one whole side of the pond to Thoreau's hut. The trail has been grossly despoiled into what looks like the making of a one-lane highway. I counted 13 trees cut down at the water's edge in one 20-foot section...
...costs eat you up," says John Bogle, a low-fee fanatic and chairman of mutual-fund company Vanguard Group, which champions "index funds" as the surest road to long-term investment success. Over long periods, Bogle says, it's inevitable that managed funds will trail the benchmarks by roughly 2 percentage points a year, reflecting their costs. But index funds such as Vanguard's Index 500, which mimics the S&P 500 by owning essentially the same stocks, have low fee structures and allow individuals to easily approximate the market's average return year after year. Last year the Index...
...have ferocious fights, and Allen would, after a Hodgkin's disease scare, quit the company and become estranged. But Gates worked hard to repair the relationship and eventually lured Allen, who is now one of the country's biggest high-tech venture-capital investors (and owner of the Portland Trail Blazers), back onto the Microsoft board. "We like to talk about how the fantasies we had as kids actually came true," Gates says. Now, facing their old classroom building at Lakeside is the modern brick Allen/Gates Science Center. (Gates lost the coin toss...
...that girls don't like computers, don't use them and are not getting the skills they need is not true at our house with its three girls! I like to go on the Internet with my mom. I'd rather have software I can learn from, like Amazon Trail, Treasure Math Storm and all the Carmen Sandiegos. Unless I want to be a fashion designer, which I don't, Barbie Fashion Designer won't help me. MARCY CAMERON, age 11 Palisade, Colorado Via E-mail