Word: logbook
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mount Bierstadt last week, Denver banker Don Pritchett looked forward to the splendor and isolation of the 14,060-ft. peak. But when he reached the top, he found he had to share the wind-torn precipice with nine other climbers and a Labrador retriever. According to a logbook wedged in the rocks, a dozen more climbers had already beaten him to the summit that morning...
...peak before the Marines landed. But there is no doubt that the American-led intervention saved many. Julie Bryant, a Red Cross nurse outside Bardera, recalls that often children were trundled in in wheelbarrows, too weak to walk. "Look," she says, pointing to a boy registered in her logbook. "That child should have been dead. Now there is such life here: they argue, they play football." As she speaks, a group of kids runs past chasing a pet baboon with a red cross painted on its bottom...