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...make it there if they're anything less. As befits a man of his timbre, Christoph boasted a heady admiration for America's paragon of manliness, the Old West cowboy. We were chatting about Westerns and cowboys one day in broken English--my German goes no further than "bier" and "bratwurst"--when he told me of his son's "cowboy coloring book." I was encouraged, to say the least, that America had given this exemplar of the strenuous life an untainted character worthy of his children's admiration (I never saw his son without a red John Wayne neckerchief...
...only fair to the insurance companies if the individual comes to them with cards face up," said Rob Bier, director of information services for the American Council of Life Insurance. "Any tests results that the individual knows about the insurance agency should know about so that a fair assessment of the risk can be made...
...support his statement, Bier cited how women are charged lower insurance rates because they generally live longer than...
...death. Ramiz Bezdrob, a 66-year-old house painter, succumbed on the night of Feb. 27 trying to bring in food for his wife and five children. Four days later, other trekkers carried his emaciated body, his nostrils still plugged with ice, off the mountain on a primitive bier of branches. At least 50 people have frozen to death along the 26-mile route. Some of their bodies and those of fallen pack ponies are visible along the eerie moonlit trail; spring will reveal the rest...
Last Wednesday, Thurgood Marshall lay in state in the Great Hall of the Supreme Court of the U.S. From 10 in the morning until 10 that night, a steady flow of people filed past his casket, which was draped with a flag and supported by the same bier on which Abraham Lincoln's coffin had rested. By evening, the number of mourners had reached nearly...