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...there have been few instances since then of such a weapon firing on and downing a commercial airliner. In the past 18 months, alQaeda has twice tried to down planes with shoulder-fired missiles; both times they missed. It turns out that shoulder-fired missiles, while compact enough to fit in a duffel bag, are not particularly reliable weapons. But with an estimated 350,000 of them in government caches around the globe and countless more for sale on the black market, there is an abundance of them available. Even people like Hemant Lakhani think they can get their hands...
...they had to push into additional niches. In 1998 the company, based in Anaheim, Calif., opened a new chain of stores called D.E.M.O. to pull in the hip-hop crowd. With their highly polished chrome-and-black decor, d.e.m.o. outlets aren't exactly street. The stores are designed to fit into shopping malls but carry merchandise from P. Diddy's clothing line Sean John and Eminem's line Shady Limited, as well as Phat Farm, Ecko and Enyce--brands that appeal to both blacks and middle-class whites. Company officials had planned to boost d.e.m.o. outlets, now numbering 114 stores...
...feel like a relic," Kevin Costner says over breakfast in a Manhattan hotel room. He doesn't look like one either. Fit and genial at 48, he moves or sits with the easy poise of all those athletes he's played: the hungry golfer in Tin Cup, the cyclist in American Flyers, the baseball veterans in Bull Durham (recently chosen by SPORTS ILLUSTRATED as the best-ever baseball movie) and For Love of the Game. His talk has a coiled energy as well. Sentences, packed with imagery and analogies, accrue momentum until he's created an aria, an oration...
...following in his footsteps up jagged peaks, skirting crevices and negotiating rocky paths. Some started late in life; others have climbed since Depression-era Boy Scout outings. "We have what we didn't have 50 years ago, which is a group of people over 50 who've stayed fit, who are getting out, who have disposable income and who've achieved a very high level of performance," says Peter Metcalf, CEO of climbing manufacturer Black Diamond Equipment...
...those who are fit, climbing often becomes more an addiction than a hobby. Suzanne Rowen, 50, for one, dropped out of her high-powered Wall Street job and moved west to immerse herself in the sport. Yosemite climbing pioneer Royal Robbins, 68, offers an explanation: "Climbing does tend to call for the best that's in us," he says. "There's something about climbing that really forces people to come to grips with their weaknesses and their true being...