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...about the expedition he was leading. Here they were on the first floor of Mount Everest, and Erik--the reason for the whole trip--was stumbling into Camp 1 bloody, sick and dehydrated. "He was literally green," says fellow climber and teammate Michael O'Donnell. "He looked like George Foreman had beat the crap out of him for two hours." The beating had actually been administered by Erik's climbing partner, Luis Benitez. Erik had slipped into a crevasse, and as Benitez reached down to catch him, his climbing pole raked Erik across the nose and chin. Wounds heal slowly...
...never have to wake up in the morning and wonder if I've got a job," says foreman Bob Knapik, 41. For almost a half-century, it's been that way at Lincoln's headquarters--guaranteed lifetime employment for all full-time workers who have been there at least three years. And that doesn't mean, by the way, that Lincoln is some Rust Belt relic of the 1950s. Thanks to its fabled incentive-compensation plan--which, instead of an hourly salary, pays assembly-line workers based on how much they produce, plus a year-end bonus (hence the grading...
Then came the most pleasant surprises of the day. Freshman Alasdair McLean-Foreman edged out several competitors ranked ahead of him to win the 800-meter dash, and sophomore John Traugott placed just a half-second out of first place in the 1000-meter...
Both Crimson freshmen at the competition last weekend performed a notch below their season bests on Sunday but still earned top-15 finishes in their respective events. Alasdair McLean-Foreman, the Indoor Heps champion in the men’s 800-meter run, placed 13th in the same event on Saturday with a time of 1:50.54. Alexandra Petrone finished 14th in the women’s javelin with a throw of 38.40 meters on Sunday...
...McLean-Foreman posted a personal-best time of 1:49.84 in the 800-meter run at the Princeton Invitational last weekend. He won the event at Indoor Heps in February. If he can improve on his performance from last weekend, he could take home the ECAC title. He would have to improve by well over a second to make NCAAs...