Word: icing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...three-day uphill trek to the foot of the final peak, and then a predawn slog of two practically vertical miles to the top. On the way, walkers are alternately roasted by the tropical sun and chilled by low alpine temperatures; they sleep in unheated, unlighted huts, wash in ice-cold water and, after five days, emerge from the mountain dirty, haggard and exhausted. "Maybe the only satisfaction comes from looking back on it afterward," suggests climber Matt Claman, 29, a lawyer from Juneau...
...called the earth- observing system (EOS). Designed to operate for at least 15 years, the satellites would give scientists their first comprehensive look at just how the world's environment changes over time. Detectors would monitor the shrinking of the tropical rain forests as well as of the polar ice caps (a possible consequence of global warming). One instrument would measure the stress of pollution on the leaves of trees, while another would monitor the health of small ponds. Data from all the detectors would be correlated in an unprecedented effort to understand the interactions of earth, sky and water...
April Fools' Day, 1989, the NCAA men's ice hockey championship, St. Paul, Minn...
...joke was on the 15,000 screaming Minnesotans and their beloved Golden Gophers. Peter Ciavaglia mugged Krayer by the far boards. Coach Bill Cleary leaped on to the ice looking for the first player in a Harvard jersey. ESPN's cameras caught him first, conducted its post-game interview and then let Cleary dance all over the ice...
Allen Bourbeau called it "pure madness." Stauber and his dazed mates leaned against the boards, buried their helmets in the ice and watched the Crimson celebrate. For the Gophers, it was pure sadness...