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...overlooked. He showed me how to crack open a type of mud-color river stone to reveal ancient fossils. He also pointed out ragged scars on the mountain flanks caused by landslides that not only destroy villages but take out trekking parties as well. Altitude sickness is another potential killer. I chafed at Kamal's exhortations to go slower, but soon came to heed his warnings. Even after several days' acclimatizing, it was a struggle crossing the 5,416-m Thorung-la Pass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bragging Rights and Beauty Rest | 2/17/2003 | See Source »

Barrie has been a giant killer before. As a freshman, she was in net during the 2001 Frozen Four upset of then-No. 1 Dartmouth that lifted the Saints into the Inaugural NCAA championship game. More recently, she delivered a 49-save shutout this season in a 1-0 victory over the Big Green...

Author: By David R. De remer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Weekend at St. Lawrence Looms for No. 1 W. Hockey | 2/14/2003 | See Source »

Challenged by a front-loaded schedule that featured its two toughest road trips of the season back-to-back, the Harvard men’s basketball team could not withstand the pressure. After getting swept at the hands of the Killer P’s last weekend, the Crimson dropped games at both Brown and Yale this weekend, effectively ending its chance at a first-ever Ivy League title less than halfway through the conference schedule...

Author: By Brian E. Fallon and Rahul Rohatgi, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSONS | Title: M. Hoops Falls Out of Ivy Chase | 2/10/2003 | See Source »

...league crown last year, only to flop and finish fourth—received 24 points from Player of the Year candidate Earl Hunt to claim their seventh straight win. After beating Dartmouth on Saturday, Brown now stands undefeated in the league with a legitimate shot to dethrone the Killer...

Author: By Brian E. Fallon and Rahul Rohatgi, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSONS | Title: M. Hoops Falls Out of Ivy Chase | 2/10/2003 | See Source »

...Angeles Sheriff's Department used the FBI system to solve one of the city's most notorious crimes, the 1957 murders of two El Segundo policemen. Just before Christmas, LA detectives dusted off the case file and, for the first time, ran a single print left by the killer against the FBI database. To their astonishment, out came the name of Gerald F. Mason, a respected 68-year-old retired businessman living in Columbia, S.C. He was never one of the several hundred suspects in the case; his print dated from a 1956 South Carolina burglary arrest. Mason was handcuffed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Long Arm of the PC | 2/10/2003 | See Source »

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