Word: trailing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Pathfinder owes much to the trail-blazing Vikings, which snapped the high-resolution pictures that enabled Pathfinder scientists to choose an appropriate landing site. The Vikings also pioneered the heat-shield and parachute technology that contributed to Pathfinder's safe and remarkably precise descent...
...burly American Oz of pig farmers, profane tiremakers and pundits with pitchforks. Covering the campaign for the New Republic, journalist Michael Lewis was smart enough to leave the pack and take that yellow brick road, turning in dispatches that were fresh, hilarious must-reads. The same is true for Trail Fever: Spin Doctors, Rented Strangers, Thumb Wrestlers, Toe Suckers, Grizzly Bears, and Other Creatures on the Road to the White House (Knopf; 299 pages; $25), a compilation of those reports...
...first-timer on the campaign trail, Lewis had two prescient impulses. The first was to chuck the tags of the marked-for-isolation press. Using his anonymity, he eavesdrops on Al D'Amato in the bathroom (guess who doesn't wash his hands) and rummages through Bill Clinton's trash. "What are you doing in here?" demands a Clintonite catching him pawing the garbage. "I'm supposed to meet George [Stephanopoulos] here for a drink," lies Lewis, successfully. The second trick was to stick with the losers. Lewis does due diligence by Clinton and Bob Dole, but spends most...
...Trail Fever is not without flaws. His magazine editor pared Lewis' endless Morry Taylor stories; his book editor should have too. At times Lewis also talks too much about himself, preening when he should be prying. Still, Trail Fever is a winner, proving, as the author writes, that "if you look long and hard enough at ugliness, you often find real beauty...
...medium unneccessary, The New York Times reported. The Supreme Court is expected to rule within the next month on the so-called Communications Decency Act , but, mindful that it has served for months as the law's passionate defender both in the courts and on the presidential campaign trail, the White House is expected to keep mum about its sudden change of mind until the Supreme Court takes a stand first. Civil rights activists and Internet advocates, while pleasantly surprised by the about-face, argue the White House should make its case known sooner rather than later. "It raises waffling...