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...downhill slide than to go back to the top of Everest? Friends thought he was nuts, but in 2003, after five years of training, Miura?then 70?became the oldest person ever to reach the roof of the world. The remarkably buff septuagenarian is now planning another Everest ascent in 2008 at age 75. "When you're getting older, you think about the things you can't do and all the reasons," he explains. "But if I have to die in a hospital, I might as well die on Everest...
...last year, handily outpacing her counterparts in the rest of Western Europe, the company added Israel, Greece and Turkey to her portfolio. (She already had Portugal.) Moraleda was managing a small Spanish IBM subsidiary when ex-chairman Louis Gerstner picked her as his top assistant for international operations. Her ascent has turned the mother of two into a role model in Spain, where women still struggle for acceptance in the boardroom. --By Jane Walker/Madrid...
Kimmelman's ascent of Ste.-Victoire--a bit of a disappointment, as it turns out--sets off a chain of thoughts about how people can disagree on what is beautiful, which leads to a review of the challenges that Pablo Picasso and Marcel Duchamp made to the very idea of beauty. And that brings Kimmelman to reflect on the changing Western response to mountains--the Romans found them desolate, Martin Luther even thought they were part of God's punishment for man's fall--and how the dangers and hardship of a mountain trek, the very things that made mountains...
...Bryna at a Bnei Akiva (a Zionist youth group) meeting in New York City, married her and made aliyah (literally, the ascent) to Israel. Bryna too was reared to Zionism, in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn. Born there in 1950, she went to religious school in her early years. Bryna says her photographer father longed to move to Israel, but his mother, who had fled to a better life in the U.S. from Russia, wouldn't accept it. "They were secular, and when he said he wanted to move to Israel in 1953, my grandmother said, 'You're crazy...
...basic outline of his life has been well-publicized ever since 50 began his ascent of the charts: a poor kid from South Jamaica, Queens is introduced to drug dealing at a young age; he is arrested numerous times; he narrowly avoids death; he is discovered by Dre and Em; he sells millions of records and makes lots of money. So, what we expect 50 to do in “From Pieces to Weight” is to fill in the gaps, to provide the details that will help us understand how he became...