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Alpine ski racer Picabo Street, who calls her sport a "dance with death" in her new autobiography, Picabo: Nothing to Hide, clearly has no illusions about the risks she faces every time she hurtles down a mountain at speeds of up to 140 km/h...
...Street, who has twice struggled back from career-threatening injuries of her own, knows from painful experience that when victory is determined by margins of hundredths of a second, fearlessness is essential. "You either hide from your fear or you replace it," she says. "Lately, I've been trying to replace it - with skiing a line that keeps me busy the entire way down the course. It's like a car accident. It's only five, 10 minutes after you get to the finish that you start shaking, realizing what you just...
Hunting terrorists on Basilan Island is a punishing game of hide-and-seek, as any Philippine soldier can tell you. The 5,000 Philippine troops on Basilan are looking for the last 80 or so heavily armed members of the Muslim rebel gang known as Abu Sayyaf (meaning "Bearer of the Sword"), who are on the run with three hostages in tow somewhere inside a 30-sq.-mi. patch. Stalking the rebels in jungle so dense that no light shines through the canopy of foliage, along jagged ridges often shrouded in fog, is like fighting in a dark closet with...
That flair led Watkins last summer to conclude there was something rotten at Enron. The numbers didn't add up. A pair of letters that she wrote to Chairman Kenneth Lay exposed top officials--perhaps including Lay himself--who for months had been trying to hide a mountain of debt, and started a chain reaction of events that brought down the company. Watkins' letters, along with thousands of other documents, are now in the hands of congressional and criminal investigators who are probing how Enron, its pet-rock auditors at Andersen and a host of other supporting actors allowed...
...were trying terrorist acts in Germany and France the year before. I've got no doubt at all they would try to do something in Britain if they could. Of course there will be some who will worry, but I think most people say, "The answer is not to hide away from this but to get out there and sort...