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...seasoned skier, nothing could be more alluring than a descent into a high-country valley carpeted with fresh-fallen snow. And nothing could be more treacherous. The same pristine slopes that offer powder hounds the thrill of carving first tracks can conceal thrills of a more perilous kind: avalanches, known to mountaineers as the "white death." Avalanches have already claimed 19 lives in the U.S. this winter. And last week five Coloradans, who lost their way in a subzero Aspen blizzard, were almost added to that number, raising awareness of the hazard...
With Preparing for the Twenty-First Century, Kennedy has fallen victim to the academic version of imperial overstretch. The genesis of the new book, as Kennedy explains, came during a 1988 conference when he was criticized for not addressing "those forces for global change, such as population growth, the ; impact of technology, environmental damage and migration, which were transnational in nature." Perhaps a more modest scholar than Kennedy might have responded that he was, for all his erudition, primarily a historian and not an agronomist, a climatologist or a demographer...
...internal and pediatric care) are on the increase. But most physicians and health care specialists recognize that the percentage of the physician pool those primary practitioners make up is decreasing at an alarming rate. Thirty years ago, 46 percent of U.S. physicians practiced primary care. Today, that number has fallen to 30 percent. In a poll conducted in 1991, fewer than 15 percent of third-year medical students (those who will graduate this year) expressed an interest in primary care...
Morresy said he could not rule out the possibility that Gao had fallen through thin ice, but he did say the ice was able to support two firefighters and their equipment on the morning they attempted to rescue Gao. "It was perfectly stable," he said...
...Every time we've talked to the federal and provincial governments, our words have fallen on deaf ears," insists George Rich, an Innu Nation vice president. Rich says he sniffed gas at 14 and went into alcohol rehabilitation after his common-law wife committed suicide at 16. Adds Katie Rich (no relation), the first woman chief of the five-person Innu band council: "Anything the government says no longer surprises me. It's got so I can't cry anymore...