Word: travels
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Those eyes and ears are increasingly focused on the screen of his own Apple PowerBook Duo 250. "Hardly a day goes by that I am not cruising the Internet," says Jackson. In cyberspace, he can travel farther and faster than he ever did as a foreign correspondent...
...were angry to learn at a Washington meeting earlier this month that the campaign had raised a respectable $8 million but had already spent $4 million. "Dole has 100% name identification," cracked a financier who attended, "but now he wants 150%." Partly in response, Dole will cut back on travel and polling this summer...
...Armani suit is still an Armani suit. Readers probably do not expect to find stories about a designer's overseas sweatshops or imperfect personal life-and they rarely do. What would happen if the fashion editors took the initiative and cleaned up their act, much the way Conda Nast Traveler rewrote the rules for travel magazines in 1987 by refusing to allow its writers to accept free trips? Would the editorial content change dramatically? Would a new batch of designers suddenly crop up in the pages of Vogue? Probably not. But until this stubborn culture of big and small favors...
Ramesses was then placed in a sarcophagus and interred, along with everything he would need to travel through the afterlife: the Book of the Dead, containing spells that would give the pharaoh access to the netherworld; tiny statuettes known as ushabti, which would come alive to help the dead king perform labors for the gods; offerings of food and wine; jewelry and even furniture to make the afterlife more comfortable. It's likely, say scholars, that Ramesses II's tomb was originally far richer and more elaborate than King...
...Arizona and Nevada converge. It glares, searing the asphalt highways lined with truck stops and trailer parks until the air shimmers with heat. In the neon nights, the listless and the luckless -- dropouts, boozers, gamblers and speed freaks -- take refuge in cheap motels. No one knows how many drifters travel the roads, how many alienated Americans hole up in motel rooms, in anger or despair. No one can even say if there are more of the rootless in this desolate corner of America than elsewhere. Theirs is an invisible subculture, or was until last month, when the FBI traced Oklahoma...