Word: climbing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...begins season as reigning champ; ratings are impressive. Passes $2 million mark after three weeks. Dazzles viewers by running the column in categories as varied as Pi High and Get a Life. Appears on the covers of TIME, PEOPLE, FORTUNE, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY and SPORTS ILLUSTRATED in same week. Ratings climb...
NOVEMBER. Ken's take exceeds $4 million. He gets enough write-in votes in Florida to throw the presidential election into the House of Representatives. Ken declines bipartisan appeal to serve, arguing he has no authority, citing Esoteric Constitutional Provisions for $1,600. Ratings continue to climb...
...earns seventh million. Wins game during which he manipulates the buzzer only with his toes. ("That was hard," he allows.) Hallmark scores a major success with its line of Be My ValKentine cards. The New York Post reports that Ken has begun seeing Paris Hilton. Ratings continue to climb...
Over 200 arrests were made Sunday. Hundreds more were made today, and a 21-year-old Yale senior was charged with assaulting federal officers and impeding the operation of the Secret Service after he shouted anti-war statements and attempted to climb into Vice President Dick Cheney's convention box seat Monday night...
...scoots around the sun so fast that a Mercury year--just 88 Earth days--is half as long as a Mercury day. On the planet's illuminated side--where the sun looks three times as big as it does from Earth and is 11 times as bright--temperatures climb to 840°F. When that side rotates into darkness, the thermometer plunges to --300°F. Eons of this rotisserie roll have cooked Mercury down to a nub with a metal core that represents three-quarters of its diameter. Yet there may be water ice in permanently shadowed polar craters...