The story of the little girl reading the Britannica in her Bronx housing project is a perfect example of America's most treasured narrative of success, treasured, precisely because, for many people, it was true.
Maybe Indy suffers from his success: the treasure hunter formula has been done to death since Raiders did it first and best, so maybe there's just nothing more to be done with the framework.
I say kudos to you -- what a gift it must be to have moments of great success and treasured anonymity in such equal measure.
The grand adventurers he'd met in South Africa left a lasting impression, but his first two attempts to replicate their accounts in novel form flopped. Then came King Solomon's Mines (1885), which he wrote as a response to the success of Stevenson's Treasure Island.
While it's notoriously difficult to isolate the magic that makes a box office success, the problem with Treasure Planet seems to be one of conception.
Despite the lack of success, Worsley still believed treasure was to be found on the island and hoped to return.
Officials with the companies, which also include Treasure Your Success, Ambrosia Web Design and A+ Financial Center, could not immediately be reached for comment.
Since most of the easy-to-pick treasures have long since been picked clean, any degree of success in finding gold or other treasure depends on acquiring suitable field gear.
But now, after a decade of enormous costs in blood and treasure, and visible successes against Al Qaeda, the nation is again insisting on a more modest global role.
ATHENS — Even as Greece lauds its success in reclaiming ancient classical treasures from museums abroad, a scandal has arisen over its oversight of its archaeological past.
