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...still owes about $2 million to Washington, which to date has received only one check (which wasn't even big enough to cover the party and the engraved ice ax the school gave Desai, a professed Everest climber). "The longer time goes on, the more skepticism starts to creep in," Arkans says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Up and Dot Gone | 4/9/2001 | See Source »

...hardly makes a dent, however, in the annual bumper crop of dead computers. Every year an electronic trash heap nearly as tall as Mount Everest is tossed into garbage cans, stashed in garages or forgotten in closets. Some 500 million PCs will be rendered obsolete by 2007 in the U.S. alone--abandoned by users who have upgraded to faster and sexier machines--according to a report by the National Safety Council. Computers are ranked as the nation's fastest-growing category of solid waste by the Environmental Protection Agency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How do you Junk your Computer? | 2/12/2001 | See Source »

...Gore's formidable legal team now faces the Mount Everest of challenges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's What for Florida's Supremes | 12/6/2000 | See Source »

...days Time it took Davo Karnicar, 38, to reach the top of Mount Everest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Numbers: Oct. 30, 2000 | 10/30/2000 | See Source »

...locked in my heating oil at $1.38. We may buy a second wood stove. I have an Everest of logs to split and stack. I wonder if they will last until April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Jefferson Kept Warm | 10/30/2000 | See Source »

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