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...thought it was all over. This virus gives no slack." DONALD LOW, chief of microbiology at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, after the city suffered a new outbreak of SARS...
...Sitting around in a big base camp and knocking back cans of beer--I don't particularly regard as mountaineering." SIR EDMUND HILLARY, who with his partner, Tenzing Norgay, 50 years ago was the first climber to reach the top of Mount Everest, on the upsurge in amateur climbers since then...
Harvard earned its only top finish of the year at the Mount Holyoke Invitational—where Chiampa and freshman Jennifer Cronan shined—before closing out its fall season with a sixth-place finish at ECACs...
Continental Divide, currently being given its world premiere at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland (in a coproduction with California's Berkeley Repertory Theater, which will mount it later this year), is just the latest sign that challenging American theater is alive and well and nowhere near Broadway...
...writer, Ackmann is no Tom Wolfe. Her prose sometimes lapses into academic dryness (she's a lecturer in women's studies at Mount Holyoke), but the pathos of the stories she tells wins through. Mercury 13 is a revealing snapshot of a country simultaneously caught up in the romance of the future and snarled in the prejudice of the past. --By Lev Grossman