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Your report on females amazed me. I climbed Mont Blanc around my 49th birthday; it was a truly wonderful experience. Until I read your article, I had no idea that the desire to do this had been brought on by menopause. I wonder how many other fiftyish women have done the same? I had in my youth done a bit of climbing, but never before (or since) have I managed such a summit. SUSAN JAIS Carqueiranne, France...
...should be awed and amazed that there are so many women eager to celebrate their female selves: scientists and science writers exploring the female body and evolutionary history, rappers asserting their tough-minded female sexuality, lawyers and homemakers marking their menopause by throwing a party or climbing Mont Blanc. Call them "estronauts," these new bio-positive women, for their ability to feel the delicious tug of the hormonal tides as well as the gleaming challenge of the mountain peaks. Or--what does it matter?--just call them human...
...parents' epochal embrace took place in a forest 3,000 ft. up on the flank of Mount Donon, overlooking the Rhineland, in May 1801, though it's typical of Hugo's own mythomania that in adult life he claimed it happened 3,000 ft. higher still, and on Mont Blanc...
Then there are the wines. The Cape's staple white is Chenin Blanc, but the Sauvignon Blancs--sometimes oak matured--are achieving high points in world ratings. Locals will say that if you haven't tasted South Africa's distinctive national red, known as Pinotage, a grape cross of Pinot Noir and Cinsaut, then you haven't yet lived...
...credo celebrates the "Blanc et Noir" of the penguin; for the Penmaster, the coloring of this seabird potently symbolizes the noir struggle between good and evil. However, as interesting a symbolic figure as the penguin is, the Penmaster pushes the idea quite a bit further than a simple intellectual statement. He presents an annotated list of the "most evil penguins" on the planet; a "Penguin Update" for up-to-the- minute information on the penguin revolution; and a link to a "corporation" called "Penco," which offers "the best in penguin care products and penguin accessories." This company even...