Word: gearing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...suddenly reappears in this rather austere, if handsomely mounted, form. It is the kind of movie that gets you thinking not so much about its ostensible subject, but about how difficult it must have been for director and co-writer David Von Ancken to make - toting all that production gear up into the waist-deep snows, plunging Brosnan (or his stunt double) into the eponymous falls, while wearing a fur coat that must weigh 20 pounds even before it becomes soaking wet. It is not a terrible movie - its beginning holds a certain promise - just, finally, an unengaging...
...Real had announced they would not renew his contract in the summer. Indeed, skeptics have long suggested that Real had signed Beckham from Manchester in the first place less for his on-field ability than for his global glamour-icon status, which would help the team sell replica gear all over the world. To be fair, Beckham earned his keep as a rather talented right-sided midfielder capable of providing pinpoint crosses to his forwards, and with an ability to bend free kicks around or over defensive walls that is quite rare among Englishmen (although pretty common among top-drawer...
...that it understands its limits. Data mining works well if Osama bin Laden decides to renew his Visa card or cash in his frequent flier miles. But bin Laden, like most terrorists, has dropped off the digital grid. To find him you need a warm body, not just cool gear...
...tobacco are much more likely to kill you than riding is. My father always said, "You can do safe things dangerously and dangerous things safely," and when you consider that nearly half of fatalities from motorcycle accidents involve alcohol, my odds improve. Add a helmet and other protective gear, and my odds are better still. But nothing can protect you from an unhealthful lifestyle. GREGOR HALENDA New York City...
...second tallest peak, K2, the American mountaineer Greg Mortenson was rescued by residents of Korphe, a remote village high in the Pakistani Himalayas. Grateful for their assistance, Mortenson vowed to build the villagers a school. He returned home to San Francisco, sold everything he owned (including his precious climbing gear), and then embarked on the most arduous quest of his career. Three Cups of Tea, co-written by journalist David Oliver Relin, is the account of Mortenson's extraordinary effort to give a school to Korphe and many other villages in the Taliban heartland. After 13 years in which...