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...militants. Hamas officials, along with the militant Islamic Jihad and al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, tore up the cease-fire with a fiery call for earthshaking revenge. Bush Administration officials struggled to salvage peace prospects, while Secretary of State Colin Powell warned, "The end of the road map is a cliff that both sides will fall...
...scarred cedar is a poignant example of the damage that climbers can do to the fragile ecosystems where they practice their sport. Camp 4 has long been home base for climbers in Yosemite, the birthplace of U.S. rock climbing. Here, where every cliff face presents an Ansel Adams moment, climbers should know better. But as the number of climbers grows--from 800,000 in 2000 to 1 million today, according to industry sources--so too does the impact they are having on the wilderness. Public-land managers, already short of funds, are struggling to keep up. Modern climbing techniques make...
...Everyone wants another family to hit him. You don't want to bring blood into your own house." The centrist Democratic Leadership Council (D.L.C.), which helped nurture Bill Clinton's political career, warned last week that the "far left" was taking over the party and pulling it over a cliff. No one had to ask whom the D.L.C.'s chairman, Senator Evan Bayh of Indiana, was referring to when he posited, "Do we want to vent, or do we want to govern?" Although Dean's record as Vermont Governor defies ideological labels (see following story), it's not that record...
...experienced trouble inserting a contact lens and loading film into his camera. He took the wrong path while making a part of the trip he had made before—and even, while rappelling down a cliff, began to unbuckle his harness before he’d reached the ground, as if he did not realize the danger it presented, Chen said...
...were rappelling from the top of a cliff,” Chen said. “He went down first but before he even got to the bottom, he got to a small ledge. He wasn’t done with the rappel, but he started taking off his rope, so it seemed like his mind wasn’t completely there. He thought that he was safe. It just seemed really...