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Records are made to be broken, but on Mount Everest they have been shattering at a dizzying pace in the past month. It's peak season on the 29,035-ft. summit--the world's highest--and more than 90 mountaineers made it to the top just last week. Here's a look at some of the notables who were up for the climb...
...disastrous misstep shattered three bones and dislocated a joint. Luckily, he did not injure his veins or arteries. Now he must fight off infection during recovery SAVING BARBARO 1 In a 4.5-hour operation, surgeons inserted 27 screws and a 15-in. (38 cm) plate in and along the broken bones. The bones will fuse over time. Barbaro should be able to walk again, even though his ankle won't bend Cannon Sesamoid Pastern 2 To keep him from thrashing about and reinjuring himself when the anesthetic wore off, Barbaro was lowered into a pool of water for about...
...Labyrinth a child's dark fantasy for adults. Certainly it's not for children. Even the grown-up audience in Cannes was jolted by the Captain's acts of violence towards others (he shoots a suspect in cold blood after smashing his face to pulp with a broken bottle) and himself. The scene in which, after having his own cheek cut open, he sutures a pretty severe gash in his mouth, earned the audience's applause...
...absorbed in the retina...it produces a chemically reactive by-product,” Rando said. He explained that this by-product ought to be recycled by the eye, but its instability sometimes causes it to react with lipids to create lipofusins, whose stability prevents them from being easily broken down. “By inhibiting certain steps, you can slow down the visual cycle enough to significantly prevent the build-up of this toxin,” he said. Preminger said that Rando’s main role will be to “guide” the drug...
...liner notes for the three-disc set Biograph, he told Cameron Crowe that the 1966 song "Most Likely You'll Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine" was "Probably written after some disappointing relationship, where, you know, I was lucky to have escaped without a broken nose." Moral: Never piss off a poet; he'll have the last word, and in public...