Word: meltedness
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It was 1999, during the annual Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta, the world's largest event of its kind. As soon as we took off in the cool dawn air, any trepidation I had instantly dissipated. My frazzled New York City nerves melted. I felt as if I were floating on...
For the short, pudgy Musharraf, who was nicknamed Gola, or ball, finding a similar avenue for achievement would prove more challenging. At Forman Christian College, a Presbyterian boarding school in Lahore, Musharraf found his metier: competitive athletics. If his brothers had always been better at figures and letters, Pervez would...
Like Hiroshima, its sister city in nuclear Armageddon, Nagasaki has made the preservation of the event's memory its legacy. The Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum, a brick building of contemporary architecture, documents the bombing and its aftermath. Its exhibits focus on the dangers of nuclear weapons and are remarkably balanced...
But by then the members of the expedition had bonded so strongly that there were none of the discipline problems that the captains had faced in the first part of the trip. "There is something compelling about being on a lucky expedition," says Galli as we stop for a drink...
And that may not be easy. Mullah Omar and his men are clearly able to move with ease in their home territory. Many Taliban fighters remain in the area, having melted into the civilian population last fall in the face of overwhelming U.S. military might. In last year's rout...