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Lewis and Clark were all the rage this year, on the eve of the bicentennial of their continental exploration (see links to Time cover story and Chicago Tribune travel piece below). But Slate's David Plotz says all the attention is overinflated. "If Lewis and Clark had died on the trail, it wouldn't have mattered a bit," says one author.
http://www.time.com/time/2002/lewis_clark/
http://www.chicagotribune.com/travel/chi-0207270022jul28,0,7659279.story
http://slate.msn.com/?id=2069382

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