Word: climbing
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...Mars' ice caps or its broad, bright plains, but conditions would have to be perfect. Even without a telescope or a guide, there will be no mistaking the brilliant red starlike object that rises in the east just as the sun is setting and continues to climb higher throughout the evening. With Venus currently hidden by the sun's glare, only the moon will outshine Mars...
...library has been put aside. The official name for this place is the Idea Store. Directed to create a library that would be as user friendly as a shopping mall, Adjaye provided a design of interflowing spaces that he thinks of as "almost like a jungle gym that you climb all over...
...Games sponsorship and now devotes almost all his $10 million annual advertising budget to magazines like CosmoGirl. As long as the stores aren't too feminine, he says, boys don't seem to mind. Sales to girls account for 48% of total purchases, a portion Weaver expects to climb to 50% in the next few months...
...then there's Jerry Dodgen, 72, who runs an Atlanta rock-climbing school. On a climb two years ago, he slipped and tore his Achilles tendon. "The doctor said I couldn't climb again for 18 months, but about 10 months out I realized something: he wasn't so concerned that I climb again; he just didn't want me to fall again," Dodgen says, chuckling. He headed back out pronto, climbing in a cast and using crutches to traverse trails...
Dangling from cliffs in casts, the live-fast, die-old set defies stereotypes about staid seniors. Though climbers must be extraordinarily cautious, the payoff is hard bodies and quick minds. That's why Wignall is frantic to escape his bedroom and climb; why Bass will give Everest another go; why he'll face competition from Miura, who will also return. "I wanted to encourage the elders in the world that if man keeps hopes and a dream, believes in the dream and works toward the dream, the heart and soul of man will remain young," Miura says...