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REACHING NEW HEIGHTS Briton Rhys Jones, 20, may be the youngest person to have climbed the highest peaks on all seven continents. Right behind him: Australian Christopher Harris, 15, who is scaling Everest now and hoping to become its youngest summiteer ever...
...Elizabeth's first and primary duty to her people, however, is to represent in her person all that they hold best in the British way of life, to endow the average Briton's life with a spaciousness beyond his own means. All last year, Britons were making plans and looking forward to Elizabeth's coronation like a family planning a favorite daughter's wedding (see ART). They mean it to be her TIME, JANUARY 5, 1953 party, but they mean it to be a family party as well. The common sense and kinship Elizabeth shares with...
...from home bursting in through the door and telling them it?s going to be okay. In a house somewhere in the city?s west, three devout aid workers from a faith-based outfit known as the Christian Peacemakers Teams - Canadians Harmeet Sooden, 32, and Jim Loney, 41, and Briton Norman Kember, 74 - were freed by British special forces and Canadian law enforcement. The raid, born of intelligence extracted from a freshly captured prisoner only three hours earlier, oddly found the kidnappers absent; alas it couldn?t save Virginian Tom Fox, 54, whose tortured body had been found...
...gave most members of Congress an attack of the vapors; Dubai Ports World has now said that it will sell P&O's U.S. assets to an American buyer. Even in Britain, where the economy has been "Wimbledonized" for years (London has a great tennis tournament, but no Briton ever wins it) and where, says Robert Wade of the London School of Economics, there is "an unusually deeply held belief in the merits of free trade and free investment," there are limits. When Russian gas behemoth Gazprom started stalking the British supplier Centrica, officials let it be known that...
...short-lived but much admired Skytrain service; in Hollywood, Florida. Launched in 1978, the London-based service encouraged flyers to cross the Atlantic casually, without even booking a flight. Though his company disbanded in 1982 after bigger airlines slashed fares, Laker became a hero to entrepreneurs including his fellow Briton Virgin Atlantic CEO Richard Branson...