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...according to a dispatch from a base camp. The Tibetans reported that he was dead, according to the dispatch, and the base camp officials informed his family.According to Osborne, Hall refused to keep his gloves or hat on and kept inching towards the edge of the cliff. They had to anchor Hall in the snow to keep him steady.“He later told us that he thought he was on a boat. And he wanted to get off that boat,” Osborne said.Osborne’s team radioed the base camp and waited with Hall...
...Buell, an early member of the Enron Task Force, remembers how difficult it was to assemble a case back in January 2002--a month after the company's bankruptcy and with the suicide of Enron's vice chairman Cliff Baxter seared into everyone's conscience. "Enron was the 9/11 of the financial markets," says Buell, now a visiting law professor at the University of Texas, "but nobody wanted to be a witness." Slowly, the task force's prosecutors turned the screws on the bad guys. But it was early 2004 before they had enough "serious momentum" to indict Skilling...
...even Wile E. Coyote can run on thin air. While pursuing his winged prey, Wile E. would always end up running off the edge of a cliff. But he wouldn’t fall right away. Instead, his animators usually drew the coyote continuing to run in the air. After a few gravity-defying moments, Wile E. would slow down and take a look around. Realizing that he had left the cliff (and a laughing Roadrunner) far behind, he would plummet to earth...
...know. "They're still through the floor," says Dale Carter, program director at KFKF in Kansas City, Mo. "There's a technology called the Dial where listeners react to songs, and every time we test the Dixie Chicks ..." Carter makes a noise like a boulder falling from a high cliff. "It's not the music, because we're playing them the hits they used to love. It's something visceral. I've never seen anything like...
...RATHLIN ISLAND Some 9 km off the Irish coast and about 22 km from Scotland's Mull of Kintyre, this cliff-edged island is reachable by a 45-min. ferry ride from Ballycastle. Few vehicles mean Rathlin is a haven for walkers and cyclists; the nature reserve and bird sanctuary area allow visitors to get close to seals and puffins. It's a grand day out, or bunk at the modest Manor House, tel: (44-28) 2076 3964. On a clear day, you can see forever-or at least to Scotland. ntni.org.uk