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...scene that will be re-enacted on mountaintops across the U.S. this summer, from the Sierras in California to the Adirondacks in New York. But it's a particular problem in Colorado's highest peaks--and especially the 54 mountains that top 14,000 ft. The Fourteeners, as they are affectionately known by locals (and a growing stack of outdoor magazines and travel guides), have become a magnet to upwardly mobile climbers sporting high-tech gear and checklists of the peaks they've bagged. More than 200,000 are expected to scale the Fourteeners this year, three times as many...
RICHARD WOODBURY, our Denver-based correspondent, trudged through mud fields and scrambled up rocks to report on the crowding of Colorado's highest peaks. "It's easy to follow in the footsteps of others who have created paths and broaden their trails," says Woodbury, with allusion to the growth of the West in general, which he writes about often. "Unfortunately, widening contributes to erosion and drainage problems." Though an avid jogger based in the Mile High City since 1994, Woodbury admits he was winded by the time he reached the top of Mount Bierstadt, where he spent a very windblown...
...themes on this year's agenda, as are gardening, history and historic inns. Lectures and courses are part of the package on steamboat cruises that range from a low of $660 per person for a three-night voyage in the least expensive cabin to $9,170 for the highest-category cabin on a two-week trip...
Unless the U.S. is planning to confront the People's Liberation Army in the mountains of Manchuria, China is decades from posing a military threat. The Cox report exposes one thing: we continue to have significant security lapses at the highest levels of our military. ERIC J. SMITH Pontiac, Mich...
BRAIN STRAIN Feel like you can't think straight when you're stressed out? You're probably right. Researchers who injected volunteers with cortisol--a hormone secreted during stress--report that those who received the highest doses for the longest period (four days) had the most trouble recalling a story they had just been told. There is a bright spot: a week after the hormone injections stopped, memory was completely restored...