Word: everest
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...REMINDED OF THE uncomfortably close relationship between justice and money. If Simpson were middle-class or merely rich, good defense lawyers confronting the mass of scientific evidence and police testimony against him would have pressed for a plea bargain. Although the Simpson trial is to trials like Mount Everest is to a child's sand castle, unrealistic defendants may not appreciate that their court-appointed or bargain-basement lawyers lack both the talent of a Johnnie Cochran and the investigative resources of an O.J. Simpson. An acquittal in the Simpson case will give other defendants false hopes that their cases...
DIED. ALISON HARGREAVES, 33, Scottish mountaineer; on K2, in Pakistan. The first woman to scale Everest without using oxygen, Hargreaves was hit by an avalanche on the world's second-highest peak...
...irony of 20th century scientists venturing out to explore waters that have been navigated for thousands of years is not lost on oceanographers. More than 100 expeditions have reached Everest, the 29,028-ft. pinnacle of the Himalayas; manned voyages to space have become commonplace; and robot probes have ventured to the outer reaches of the solar system. But only now are the deepest parts of the ocean coming within reach. "I think there's a perception that we have already explored the sea," says marine biologist Sylvia Earle, a former chief scientist at the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration...
...humans, one way or the other, are headed back to the bottom of the sea. The rewards of exploring the coldest, darkest waters--scientific, economic and psychological--are just too great to pass up. Ultimately, people will go to the abyss for the same reason Sir Edmund Hillary climbed Everest: because it's there...
...deregulatory fronts. Two weeks ago, a commission led by Gaishi Hiraiwa, head of Japan's foremost Big Business organization, Keidanren, handed the Prime Minister a detailed report calling for extensive trimming of the more than 11,000 rules that entangle nearly every aspect of the economy. The red-tape Everest is a major reason behind high consumer prices in Japan and an important invisible barrier to imports. The U.S.-based Economic Strategy Institute recently estimated that regulations and other measures bar as much as $200 billion in potential exports to Japan every year...