Word: ascent
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...idolized [in Poland],” Kubik says, “he’s idolized, though not as much as in the international community.” Kubik, whose family sought refuge from Communist Poland in 1987, has seen his life intertwined with the political ascent of Walesa. Kubik’s parents escaped the disappointment of showing up at a supermarket and discovering only tea and vinegar on the shelves, Kubik says, by emigrating to the United States. His great-grandfather disappeared at the hands of the Communists, and his grandmother was present at the shipyard riots...
...pedometer clipped onto his belt counts all 162 stairs on the eight-floor ascent to his Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital office—along with more than 11,000 other steps on a normal...
...ascent was too beautiful to be true, and his failure was absolutely predictable
...amazing, it gave many Algerians hope that 'finally, we can have the good life, too,'" comments Waël Hasnaoui, an Algerian working in Paris as an advertising consultant, and a member of Khalifa's original social circle. "In fact it was incredible - literally. His entire business ascent was obviously too beautiful to be true, and his eventual failure was absolutely predictable." In a state-stifled economy where unofficial unemployment estimates are close to 40% and corruption is rife, it's understandable why many Algerians chose to view the 36-year-old Khalifa as a national dream come true...
...SUMMIT CONQUERED. By Keegan Reilly, 22, American paraplegic, who reached the top of Mount Fuji using a hand-powered quadricycle; in Japan. Paralyzed from the waist down in a car accident seven years ago, the amateur mountaineer subsequently scaled two other peaks. After starting his Fuji ascent, Reilly was delayed for eight hours by Japanese trail rangers who said bikes weren't allowed. His next goal: Mount Rainier, in Washington, and then Aconcagua, the highest peak in South America...