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Damning the current Unabomber suspect, Gelernter writes, "Hut man's goal was to be the country's No. 1 criminal." He also says a 1993 bombing was "Mr. Bucolic-Cottage-in-the-Countryside's first outing in several years." Was it? Gelernter should not invoke the word justice in urging the death penalty for a man yet to be tried, let alone convicted. GORDON BLACK Mendocino, Calif...
...trip climbing Mount Kilimanjaro gave some idea of why many say she sets an impossible standard for regular women. Finding the food at Horombo Hut at 12,500 ft. "inedible," she commandeered the porters and put together vegetable soup, chicken risotto and tomato salad using her Swiss Army knife. "She drives me insane," says Katherine Stuart, 33, of Los Angeles. "Part of me loves her. I mean, my God, she picks her own eggs, makes her own paint and makes everything so pretty. I had a subscription for two months, but she made me feel so deficient, so I canceled...
...teacher and student sit cross-legged, facing each other on the floor of the open-sided hut in Western Samoa. Behind them the rain forest rises to the pinnacle of a long-dormant volcano. Beneath the thatched roof, a gaggle of children intently watches the proceedings. The teacher is Salome Isofea, 30, a young healer who is demonstrating her art. The man opposite her, a Westerner named Paul Alan Cox, is no ordinary student. He is a botany professor and dean at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, a world specialist in medicinal plants and, far from least in this...
...then, dissatisfied, pulled it out. "It's not right," she explained. The boy writhed in agony. Calmly, she inserted the needle four or five times more before she was finally sure that she had it right. At 2 a.m. she ducked back into the boy's hut to give him more medicine. In the morning, astonishingly, he was alive and smiling. The Nuer mother beamed at Seaman, and then she was gone. Seaman sat down at the camp table outside her tent, poured herself a cup of tea and began preparing for her morning patients...
Case refined his education at Pizza Hut, chewing his way through a yearlong assignment to scout the latest in pizza innovation at the unhealthy rate of eight to 10 pies a day. He helped the Hut launch a "pocket" pizza called Calizza--it followed the towelette into oblivion--and divined what he says is the single most important law of business: success requires you to sit taste bud to taste bud with your customer...