Word: mins
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...min., Nepalese mountaineer Pemba Dorje Sherpa completed the fastest-ever ascent of Mount Everest from base camp last week, shaving more than two hours off the old record. Pemba Dorje's feat was one of survival as well as speed: in the same week, four climbers died on Everest...
...last May and October with concerns that Pentagon civilian attorneys were easing the rules of interrogation to endanger prisoner rights. Finally, an exasperated Senator asked Wolfowitz how he would judge it if foreigners interrogated an American naked and hooded, with his arms in the air for 45 min. "What you've described sounds to me like a violation of the Geneva Convention," Wolfowitz said...
...including two from 2000, when he became the first man ever to sweep the 20-km and 50-km races. He hasn't lost at 50 km, his specialty, since 1999. And he's set a new record in his last two 50-km races, clocking 3 hr. 36 min. 3 sec. at the World Championships in Paris last August. Korzeniowski, 35, admits his career has turned out so well that "I could finish happily any day." So why bother with Athens? "I still have Olympic dreams," he says, flashing the first of many smiles. "I'm giving myself...
...style, with Tom Hanks, Uma Thurman, Cameron Diaz, Brad Pitt, Charlize Theron, Sean Penn and Julie Andrews gracing the red-carpeted steps of the Grand Palais. The film selection held some sweet surprises, such as Paolo Sorrentino's deadpan crime comedy Consequences of Love, and a 4 hr. 38 min. Palestinian drama, Yousry Nasrallah's The Gate of the Sun, which overflowed with passion, smart dialogue and a knowing, dreamy poignance. Jean-Luc Godard's Our Music, about the Israel-Palestine conundrum, concluded its dark ruminations by sending its lead character to a heaven patrolled, without apparent irony...
...camera lens to movie mode, look through the viewfinder and press a button on top to start recording. To play MP3s, plug in the headphones and flip the dial to music mode. The Keyring Camcorder shoots stills at resolutions of up to 2 megapixels and can store nearly 30 min. of video...