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...continued her string of strong performances by tying her season-high height in winning the high jump, clearing 1.75 meters. She was joined by junior Brittan Smith, who won the long jump with a 5.76 meter leap. Smith pulled double duty on the day, finishing fifth in 60-meter dash by finishing in 7.92 seconds. Three more event winners came on the men’s side, where senior Brian Holmquest won the 3,000 meters in 8:16.93, a personal best. Captain Alex Lewis won the long jump with a 6.79 leap, and freshman Sean Gil rounded...
...Still, he continued to seek out challenges. In 1958, as leader of a support team to Vivian Fuchs' planned crossing of Antarctica, he made a controversial dash by tractor to the South Pole, becoming the first person ever to reach it in a motor vehicle. In 1962 he began working to better the lives of the Sherpas who had so often helped him. His Himalayan Trust built schools and clinics and restored monasteries. The numbers of people - many almost totally reliant on Sherpa guides - who flocked to Everest in his wake left him uneasy. "Everest, unfortunately, is largely becoming...
When he is out on patrol, primary schoolchildren dash across the street to greet Cook, running past armed neighborhood guards to proudly show him their report cards. "Hellow meestah Cook!" they shout. "Zien, zien!" Cook says, ("good, good") encouraging them in Arabic. Armed plainclothes gunmen - volunteers Cook helped organize - checked inside cars passing through the crosswalk...
...there, of all places, that we expected to be on a leash. But in fact, we were freer there than we had been anywhere else?permitted to take pictures of the soldiers on guard and given enough space by our minders that we could have even made a dash for the South Korean border. I don't know if tourists have ever defected from North Korea, but after more than a week of constant surveillance and ceaseless propaganda?basically, living like a member of its society?it didn't seem like such a bad idea...
...racing against anyone, and I kind of left the field behind pretty early.” Assistant coach Matt Chisam, competing independently, took first place in the 60-meter hurdles, finishing in 8.37 after he had run 8.27 in prelims. Junior Derek Jones took second in the 400-meter dash, clocking in at 50.31. And in his first time running the event, sophomore Justin Grinstead took third in the 500-meter dash with a time of 1:05.69. Co-captain Alex Obrecht placed second in the shot put with a throw of 14.69 meters, and freshman Sean Gil took second...