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...with her waist-length black hair trailing. The teenagers ignore her, locked into a Thai adventure-romance on the television overhead. For a moment, Tip stays where she is, her childlike hands clasped in front, bony elbows between her knees. Then she shuffles over to join the row of moon faces turned up toward the screen. She and Lek have been sold. Again...
...Camp that night was on an open slope beside the Barrancco Wall, a rocky ridge that runs down the southwest face of the mountain. Late afternoon sun warmed and dried us and then the moon, almost full, rose over the towering peak above us, lighting the glacier like a sparkling diamond. No clouds meant a cold night, and there was frost on the tents and ground by morning...
...cosmic calling card last week. It arrived in the form of a huge rock, about 1,000 ft. in diameter, that hurtled past the planet at 68,000 m.p.h. The asteroid, newly dubbed 2001 YB5, missed us by some 500,000 miles, about twice our distance from the moon. For astronomers, however, that was a hairbreadth, and a dramatic reminder that space is filled with debris that has devastated our planet in the past and could very likely to do so again...
...drive himself nuts wondering if his long run as America's troubadour was suddenly over. One dry spell came in 1930. He hadn't had a #1 song in three years; now he'd gone to Hollywood to write a musical for Douglas Fairbanks, "Reaching for the Moon," and after discouraging previews the studio had cut most of the songs. "I developed the damnedest feelings of inferiority," Berlin said. "I got so I called in anybody to listen to my songs - stockroom boys, secretaries. One blink of an eye and I was stuck...
...answer song: "Alexander's Ragtime Band" was followed by "Alexander's Bagpipe Band," "Everybody's Doin' It" by "They've Got Me Doin' It Now." If a number wasn't a memorable hit the first time, he would rewrite it into one. Thus the 1918 "That Sterling Silver Moon" became "Mandy" a year later; "Smile and Show Your Dimple," a top ten tune in 1918, morphed into "Easter Parade" in 1933. He appropriated four lines of the chorus of "To My Mammy" (1920) for "How Deep Is the Ocean" (1932). He rescued the pushcart plaint "Any Love Today" (written...