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Before the public learned of Wetlaufer’s affair with GE CEO Jack Welch, who was the subject of a profile piece Wetlaufer was writing, Abernathy had called for Wetlaufer to be placed on a leave of absence during HBR’s investigations of the relationship.
Jefferson had given Lewis an unambiguous mission: to find "the most direct & practicable water communication across this continent." Judged by that yardstick, the captains had utterly failed. What Jefferson hoped would be a "practicable" water route had turned out to be a brutal portage across parts of Montana and Idaho...
When I get off the trail, Erwin Myles, head of natural resources for the Nez Perce, is waiting for me. We go salmon fishing together--his tribe has fishing rights on the Rapid River, part of the Columbia River system. Like many Indians, Myles is ambivalent about celebrating the discoveries...
I am fortunate enough to live in one of the last five scraps of country in the Lower 48 that are still wild enough to support even a vestigial population of grizzlies. In the U.S., the great bear has been reduced to near prisoner status, surviving only for certain in...
I learned the Pledge of Allegiance before the words under God were inserted into it. We did not know anything was missing. Even without God, it was a Norman Rockwell scene: little white boys and girls with their hands over their hearts, facing a flag in the corner of a...