Word: trails
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...distance marched Toad and friends -- the guide Chrissie Aldrich, the Kitich Camp manager Ian Cameron and the others. And last, the ten donkeys that carried water and food (short rations that got shorter as the days passed and the wild walking grew more wonderful). The donkeys advanced along the trail like a party of schoolgirls in dove-gray uniforms, sociable and disorderly, the sheer din of their progress driving off elephants and lions and all other wilder beasts as Toad's parade advanced. Toad surveyed the line of march with a jump of pleasure. En passant with his olive-wood...
...first African safari. "They would charge the vehicles. One even walked through camp." These days, a rhino is a rare sight in the African wilderness. In the past 20 years, the black rhino population has plummeted from 65,000 to fewer than 4,000. Rhinos are headed down the trail to extinction because poachers hunt them for their horns. Most rhino horn is smuggled to the Middle East and Asia, where it is carved into dagger handles or ground into folk medicines. Conservationists hope that if African governments lose the battle to protect their rhinos, a stockpile of rhinos...
...1830s, the prosperous Cherokee farmers of North Carolina and Georgia had leaders educated in white universities and a written constitution recognized by the U.S. But they stood in the way of white expansion, so they were driven from their homes and herded along what came to be called the Trail of Tears to the Oklahoma territory. There, Humphrey's tale has it, the survivors were forced once more to migrate. The weight of such history would seem almost too oppressive for fiction to handle. But Humphrey skillfully balances the misery with the detachment of ancient family legend. The tale descends...
With Wright's downfall and Tony Coelho's resignation, Gingrich is at his zenith. A year after he first sent the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct sniffing along a well-laid trail of charges against Wright, the Georgia conservative can proudly say he has had a hand in throwing the Democratic leadership of Congress into turmoil. Characteristically, he is not satisfied. "Let's have an honest House, and not one corrupted by the arrogance of power," he says. "I'm out to break the Democratic machine...
Even though he accuses the Democrats of hiring private detectives to trail him, the Capitol Hill equivalent of America's Most Wanted pronounces himself unperturbed: he is used to close scrutiny. In 1984 the magazine Mother Jones published tawdry details of his 1980 divorce from his first wife, Jackie. Hundreds of copies of the story were distributed to House members and reporters on the Hill...