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DEATH REVEALED. Marty Hoey, 30, Washington State mountaineer who was trying to be the first American woman to conquer Mount Everest; of injuries in a fall on May 15; in the Himalayas, 2,600 ft. short of the 5½-mile-high summit. Hoey was the only woman on a team scaling the rarely climbed Great Couloir of the mountain's north face...
...horror stories, massaging a cramped and semi-comatose roommate, and knowing the condition of my heart after a very leisurely short run, my immediate leaning is to concede defeat in next year's marathon right now and leave the crazy race to the kinds of people who climb Mt. Everest just because it exists...
...keep workers intellectually fresh, ROLM gives each employee three months of paid time off for every six years of service. Most people use the time to travel. One engineer crossed the Sahara Desert during his sabbatical, another trekked to Mount Everest. Says Executive Vice President Robert Maxfield: "When our people return from sabbaticals, they bring back a fresh attitude. They don't settle into the old ways of doing things...
...orbiting Venus three years ago, it has studied the planet's weather by photographing changing cloud patterns and lifted its veil with a radar beacon, mapping 93% of Venus' shrouded surface. Though the planet has continent-size land masses topped by a mountain a mile higher than Everest, it does not seem to be rent by the earth's major mountain builder: continental drift. Rather, the key tectonic process appears to be volcanism, accompanied by lightning, flows of lava and an otherworldly version of earthquakes...
After watching the Eagle careen around its mile-long track, I was definitely not psyched. So I decided on a plan for working my way up to the Mt. Everest of roller coasters--I would ride the park's lesser ones first. The name of the tiniest one should have been enough to turn me away. "Willard's Whizzer" whirled like the spin-dry cycle of a washing machine, and anything that goes in circles makes me sick. I rode it anyway...