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...snow keeps getting deeper. As we climb to Indian Post Office, the highest point on the trail at 7,033 ft., the drifts are 15 ft. and up. We have covered 13 miles in soft snow, and we barely have enough energy to make dinner. After a meal of chicken and couscous, I sit on a rock outcrop on top of the ridge. There is no light visible in any direction, not even another campfire. For four days we do not see another human being. We are isolated in a way that mixes fear with exultation. In our imagination...
...MENDOCINO, CALIF. The Fourth of July parade in this small coastal town usually reflects the interests of the citizens, who consider themselves, well, unique. Floats have featured the Big-Haired Women, the Marching Miniature Pigs (and their owners), the Petaluma Chicken Pluckers, and the Marching Susans, whose kazoo players were all named Susan...
...trade embargo allowed Cuba to buy U.S. food products--a privilege it began exercising in November when it purchased 30,000 tons of corn from Archer Daniels Midland. Since then Fidel Castro's government has spent $90 million in scarce hard currency on staples like rice, wheat and chicken. Now Castro and his buyers would like to sample brand-name products. This fall more than 150 American companies such as specialty pastamaker Bushel 42 and Spam producer Hormel will travel to Havana to show off Napa Valley wines, soy burgers, candy bars and even bottled water at a food...
ALTERNATIVE REALITY To combat the greased-chicken effect of smearing on so much sunscreen, researchers suggest covering the body with a thin layer of sunblock first, then again half an hour later. Be warned: the old rules about reapplying after swimming still hold. Plus, tans are bad for your skin, period...
Interest rates may look like chicken feed right now--but inflation is low too, so your real return is richer than it looks. Even when bonds yielded 8% in the early 1990s, their return after inflation was under the 3.2% you can net on today's 4.8% bonds (see chart). That's why you shouldn't join the herd of investors stampeding into high-yield--or junk-bond--funds; so far this year, the public has poured $9 billion into these buckets of risky corporate debt, nearly half as much as the money attracted by all stock funds combined last...