Word: trails
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...first heard of Goa as a college graduate in the mid-'70s. It was a compulsory destination on the hippie trail, which led from Turkey via Afghanistan (for, um, essential supplies) to points east. Like in Kathmandu, kids came to Goa for a week and never left. The tradition of amped-up susegado continued in the '90s with Goa's famous full-moon parties?ecstatic, quasi-pagan raves. In Bombay, Indian friends told me matter-of-factly that "[authorities]cleaned all that up." I didn't like the sound of that?even aging hippies need a place to lay their...
...disappeared in early 1998, shortly after the FBI received a tip that he might be the Birmingham bomber. He had fled his trailer, leaving the lights on, the door open and the air conditioning running and taking a month's worth of food, including raisins, green beans, tuna and trail mix. More than 200 federal agents fanned out across a 500,000-acre swath of North Carolina's craggy peaks, caves and snake-infested underbrush. Helicopters with infrared scopes scoured the land; listening posts and cameras were set up. Yet by mid-2000 the feds had largely dispersed...
...Europe is an especially exciting place if you’re interested in the humanities, government, or sociology. If you haven’t been to Fenway Park, go to Fenway Park. You gotta do that. It’s worth going to see the great museums, the Freedom Trail...
...would ask him why he did his job, I would ask plumbers who came to the house about why they liked pipes, and when I went to baseball games, most kids wanted autographs, but all I wanted was to ask questions.” King says that he would trail after players when games ended, asking them why they bunted or why they stole a certain base...
...White House. But when disaster struck in the form of John McCain's devastating victory in the New Hampshire primary, Bush and his aides were forced to play the game the way McCain did, giving access to the candidate and mixing it up with reporters on the campaign trail. It was a temporary arrangement that ended once Bush took office. Could it happen again, if these issues bring Bush political trouble? Maybe. Just don't expect Fleischer's successor to admit...