Word: trails
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...trail switches back and forth, and though there may be hundreds of hikers on it, you are often alone, and you can peer over the edge at 2,000 or 3,000 ft. of rock face. And then, when you weary of geology, some folks come trudging along, and you get to switch to anthropology...
...into flinty-eyed people busily despising you for your yellow plaid walking shorts and a T shirt that says SAVE THE WHALES. TRADE THEM FOR VALUABLE PRIZES. The canyon belongs to the world. (I believe there is a separate entrance for Sierra Club members, the Ansel Adams Trail, where they don't need to encounter us and the landscape is black and white...
...your whale T shirt and shorts and walking shoes with wool socks and a pack with a bottle of water and a bag of trail mix and head down the Bright Angel Trail from the South Rim. This is a splendid experience. You pass through a phalanx of men standing on the rim videotaping the canyon, panning from left to right and then right to left, and you plunge down the trail, which is broad and not too steep and studded with mule manure, and a hundred or so feet down, once you come around the second switchback...
Other critics focus on his secretiveness. Famous for that closely held binder and his lack of a paper trail, Ross shares only with his immediate superiors--Clinton, Berger and Albright--the most sensitive information on talks, and some say the lack of witnesses and signed documents leaves him vulnerable to those who would go back on their word. But most colleagues say such tactics are an asset, not a liability. "It makes his role all the more essential," says Ed Abington, a former member of Ross's team. In fact, the joke at State is that essential Ross has found...
...gnawing through millions of Internet e-mails and collecting any with keywords like "explosion" or "drugs." Thus, so the speculation went, an overheated lover who messaged, "You hit my heart with a mega-ton of dynamite - let's escape for more ecstasy tonight," might find the feds on his trail. House Judiciary chairman Henry Hyde and Rep. Charles Canady, chairman of the Constitution subcommittee, alarmed at potential Cointelpro-type abuses - and possibly sensing a wedge issue to drive tech heads out of the Democratic camp - have scheduled a hearing for Monday...