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...Steve Jobs and his team at apple would invent a little device that could clip to a soldier's belt and trip every electronic trigger for improvised explosive devices within a couple of hundred meters, then I would really be impressed. Dean M. Brayton Gold Canyon, Arizona...
DEAN M. BRAYTON Gold Canyon, Ariz...
DIED. Bradford Washburn, 96, climber, cartographer and aerial photographer who in 1951 founded the all encompassing Museum of Science in Boston; in Lexington, Mass. Labeled "a roving genius of mind and mountains" by outdoor photographer Ansel Adams, Washburn mapped the Grand Canyon in the 1970s, using prisms and lasers to measure depth; and in 2000 he helped revise the height of Mount Everest, up to 29,035 ft., a 7-ft. correction...
...plays with the kind of palpable intensity that these days is a prerequisite for getting anywhere in tennis, and he looks destined to be a tall boy, perhaps 190-cm by the time he stops growing. The leap from juniors to the Tour is huge and the tennis canyon is full of former prodigies who didn't make it. But Tomic is the best Australian prospect since Hewitt...
...This Colorado-based company has been putting together memorable, well-organized adventure holidays in the Americas since 1988, with tours for solo travelers a speciality (even on its regular group departures, over half the participants are traveling alone). Itineraries for singles cover destinations as diverse as Alaska, the Grand Canyon and Ecuador, where hikes, kayak excursions and exploring the Galápagos Islands in a chartered yacht make a welcome alternative to body shots and wet-T-shirt contests. A tour to Belize provides opportunities for trekking, snorkeling, cycling, canoeing and cave exploration. World Outdoors also offers a Machu Picchu...