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...with his wife to their house in Keene, N.Y., not far from John Brown's grave. "You can start to see the horizon getting closer when you get to your late 50s," he explains. He has a writing cabin about a thousand yards from the Keene house. He will hike there each morning at 8. And from this outpost, six or seven days a week, he will scan the horizon...
...YORK: Dell is hot. The mail-order computer maker wowed the after-hours market world Wednesday with reported earnings of 81 cents for the fourth quarter, a full four cents higher than the analyst estimate and a whopping 52 percent hike over last year...
...Hair CD ("Be-In") and unzip my jeans. When O. Walks in, I'm standing in my boxer briefs by the bathroom sink, holding cartons of body paint in both hands and wearing a sly grin. She crouches down behind me and whips out a paintbrush. I hike up my underwear, and she starts to work, applying the paint in smooth, gooey strokes that will have to be toweled off later. Not having a paintbrush, I use my fingers to trace the outlines of a peace symbol on my face...
...TAKE A HIKE The ranks of retired guys are growing fast, yet few studies have examined whether exercise really benefits them. Now research finds that walking is great stuff: two miles daily can keep older men alive significantly longer...
Henry cursed his luck. If he couldn't trust Steven Spielberg to provide responsible promotional materials, whom could he trust? Now he would have to hike on over to the Huntington library and laboriously research the episode on his own. Henry knew there were plenty of books and essays on the Amistad mutiny (although in Hollywood's view, a historical episode has been forgotten, even repressed, if a movie hasn't been made about it), but it was a colossal waste of his discretionary time to do corrective research. Henry shuddered at the memory of the week JFK opened...