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...mysterious physical edge over other mountaineers. Not so, says Oswald Oelz, a Swiss physician and one of Messner's former climbing partners, who conducted a series of tests on high-altitude climbers in a hypobaric chamber. Messner emerged with results similar to those of an above-average marathon runner. He and other mountaineers who had successfully penetrated the 8,000-m barrier proved to have what Oelz calls a "rather active respiratory center," meaning that as the air gets thinner, their rate of breathing involuntarily increases. "He's obviously got a superb high-altitude physique," says Chris Bonington...
Listing Herschbach's accomplishments hardly does justice to his contributions to the undergraduate community, but notable in his five-year term as Currier House co-master are his support for the Dance Marathon, the music program, as well as ethnic awareness--for which he and his wife, Georgene, were given an honorary award by the Black Students Association...
...have not cut off our dialogue," said Georgy Arbatov, a Kremlin adviser who took part in marathon arms negotiations at the October 11-12 summit in Iceland. "If the President needs some face-saving devices, we can find him some...
...music and sports. Painter Keith Haring, Musicians Philip Glass and Lou Reed and a member of Paik's "family" of video robots will appear in Manhattan, Architect Arata Isozaki and Fashion Designer Issey Miyake will be on from Tokyo, and outside Seoul, cameras will follow the running of the marathon at the Asian Games. "The hardest part was not raising the money but dealing with three different countries that historically mistrust one another," notes Korean- born Paik, 54, who clearly remains unfazed by such geopolitical interference. He is already looking forward to his next project, a live global broadcast during...
Finally, with Paley, Tisch and Wyman out of the room, the remaining directors reached a unanimous decision. "The board was not willing to put the company up for sale," said one of them. "Once that was conveyed to Mr. Wyman, he resigned." The rest of the marathon meeting was spent on arrangements to hand over temporary control of the company to the new team of Paley and Tisch...