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...design. Sharon, as the elder statesman of the Likud Party, was made caretaker leader two years ago after the party's candidate, Benjamin Netanyahu, was trounced by Barak. And it was in his capacity as opposition leader that he led a phalanx of security men onto Jerusalem's Temple Mount in September 2000, to underline his opposition to Barak's negotiations over sharing it with the Palestinians. The visit sparked the first riots of what became the Al Aqsa intifada. And the intifada brought Barak tumbling down, opening the road to Sharon becoming prime minister - thanks to Barak...
Wilsnack says she has heard again and again from college women that they drink to "get in a party mood." This bears up even at Mount Holyoke College, an all-women school in South Hadley, Mass., a town so tiny it has but one bar. No matter. Before dances, women simply tend bar in their dorm rooms. "We are really shy when we go out. We are not confident," says freshman Chandrika Christie. "But if we drink, we put ourselves out there." Her friend Jenn Richardson says the objective is "to get drunk as quickly as possible." Richardson has built...
Some women are repelled by the very notion that it's physiologically impossible for them to drink like men. Dr. Charles Lieber, a professor of medicine and pathology at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City, has spent years studying the effects of alcohol on women's bodies. At one conference he delivered a paper detailing why women can't hold their liquor as well as men. He looked up and noticed that the women in the room were hardly applauding. "They were a bit offended," he recalls. "There's a tendency to reject anything that shows them...
Last June, Erik Weihenmayer, right, became the first blind climber to reach Mount Everest's icy 29,035-ft. peak, and on his way he carved a hint of approachability in the mountain's otherwise treacherous face. Now there's a veritable buffet line of hopeful summiteers, from amputees to an all-woman team to the descendants of the first climbers to reach the peak. It's no easy trek: though a record 182 people made it to the top last year, 90% of Everest climbers fail. --By Sora Song...
...HOMMER First double amputee Hommer ascended 20,320-ft. Mount McKinley in 1999 and last year climbed 3,000 ft. short of Everest's peak. Now he's training for a new try next spring. The first person to summit with an artificial leg was Tom Whittaker...