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...largest number of the 10,764 tourists who climbed the mountain last year came from the U.S. That can be blamed on Hemingway, says Iain Allan, a mountain climber whose Nairobi company arranges treks up Kilimanjaro, mostly for Americans. "Americans were brought up on his short story The Snows of Kilimanjaro, and they simply have to come and see for themselves." What they find is not one but two forbidding peaks: gaunt, craggy Mawenzi and snowcapped Kibo, the summit that looms over Harry, Hemingway's gangrenous protagonist, "wide as all the world, great, high, and unbelievably white...
...bright spot for the U.S. is that several companies, large and small, hope to enter the field. Among the contenders is IBM, which in late 1987 formed a venture with former Cray designer Steve Chen to develop a line of advanced supercomputers. Allan Weis, a vice president in IBM's Data Systems division, asserts, "We're very serious about the supercomputer market. The Japanese are formidable competitors, but IBM and Cray are very formidable too." They had better be, or the supercomputer could go the way of the videocassette recorder...
...lives. Eager parents arrive home late and pour a day's stored attention onto a child who is more ready to be tucked in than talked at. "It may be that the same loss of leisure among parents produces this pressure for rapid achievement and overprogramming of children," argues Allan Carlson, president of the conservative Rockford Institute, an Illinois think tank. If parents see parenting largely as an investment of their precious time, they may end up viewing children as objects to be improved rather than individuals to be nurtured at their own pace...
...important for the Court to know thedepth of historical scholarship, rather thanmerely assume what social, cultural and legaldebates have meant," says Professor of the Historyof Science and Medicine Allan M. Brandt, the onlyHarvard professor to sign the brief. "Thesolicitor general's brief wasn't really based onhistorical context...
Goaltending Player G W-L-T Min Svs PctGAA Mike Francis 3 2-0-0 140 66 .9710.86 Chuckie Hughes 15 13-1-0 866 379 .9022.84 Allan Roy 14 12-2-0 832 364 .9122.46 Totals 30 27-3-0 1839 809 . 912 2.54 Opponents...