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Krish’s friends say he is virtually unchanged since his first year. A few pounds heavier, possibly. Bigger hair, most definitely. His once red-hot ambition to dance back-up for Britney has cooled and his choice of headwear become more daring. (The most infamous he favored for a spell was a trucker hat that declared, “I Love Intercourse”—picked up in Intercourse, Penn...
UNDERSTAND YOUR RIGHTS Move from state to state, and U.S. law forbids the mover to hold your goods and demand payment of more than 110% of your written estimate. (He's allowed to try to bill you more later--say, if your antique sofas are a lot heavier than they look or if he used more packing material than anticipated--but he has to deliver your belongings.) Move within your state, however, and you are protected only by state laws, which vary in effectiveness. For in-state moves, insist that your bill of lading--the written receipt...
...summit at the base of a 12-meter vertical rock face, later named the Hillary Step, desperately hoping it could be scaled. In 1953, so much of modern mountaineering was still to be discovered. Archaic clothing and tents made Everest's frigid temperatures lethal. Oxygen bottles were three times heavier than today's. Deadly altitude illnesses, little understood, caused brains to swell and lungs to fill with fluid. Because lightweight radios had yet to be invented, it wasn't until Hillary and Tenzing had descended to within a few hundred meters of advanced base camp and Hillary held...
...only race that hurt Harvard on the B side was its last. With stronger winds kicking up, the light Yu was taken out and the heavier Darst inserted as crew. Despite the success Potts and Darst had earlier in the day, the two struggled in the final race of the weekend, finishing 11th...
...current, dubbed the Blue God by author William MacLeisch, warms much of Europe and eastern North America by bringing enormous amounts of tropical water northward as part of the "great ocean conveyor" that distributes heat around the world. As this warm water moves north, evaporation makes it saltier and heavier. By the time the stream has reached the far northern waters between Norway and Greenland it has given up most of its heat, and this salty, heavy water plunges into the abyss, pulling more water behind...