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Alpine climber Yuichiro Miura knows something about rapid descent?in 1970 he became the first person ever to ski Mount Everest, hurtling more than a mile down the peak's icy flank in less than two minutes, and barely surviving. But handling the downhill slope of his own life proved trickier. Miura retired from climbing at age 60, deciding he was too old to haul himself up mountains anymore, but after five lazy years of Japanese beer and Korean barbecue, he had an epiphany: "I was only talking about my past, not my future. I wanted to challenge my dreams...
...hydraulic systems in Columbia's left wing had suddenly ceased. At 8:56, when the ship was somewhere over Utah, the temperature in the landing gear and brake lining--again on the left side--registered high. Two minutes later, three temperature sensors embedded in the skin on the left flank of the ship quit transmitting. A minute later, temperature sensors in the left tires winked out too. All these data hiccups were reported by the mission controllers to the flight director. Finally, when the spacecraft was about 207,000 ft. (63,000 m) above Texas, Charlie Hobaugh, the spacecraft communicator...
...inspired they get." Watching these heritage advocates in action, it's easy to see why Thakur hasn't abandoned hope. On a recent day-trip south of New Delhi to check on the Taj Mahal, Saxena tenderly strokes some new cracks she's spotted in its eastern flank. "It's not going to fall down tomorrow," she says, "but this might be a first warning." Then, as if she were re-enacting her teacher's epiphany in Mehrauli nearly 30 years earlier, she proclaims, "We need to take this seriously," and rushes off to find the manager...
Apparently President Botha knew it well, and conservatives in the Cabinet may have forced him to water down his message. When he appeared on the platform in Durban's oak-paneled city hall last Thursday, the President seemed preoccupied with protecting his right flank (see box). He made no mention of the term power sharing and explicitly vetoed the idea of adding a fourth, black branch of Parliament to the tricameral legislative system for whites, "coloreds" (mixed-race South Africans) and Indians that took effect last year. Botha declared only that "any future constitutional dispensation providing for participation...
...Provost Steven E. Hyman guarded University President Lawrence H. Summers’ flank on the long walk from Mass. Hall to Lowell Lecture Hall, the site of the second Faculty meeting in a week to discuss Summers’ leadership of the University...