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...highway, I find myself looking for my openings, waiting for just the right moment to jam it in there. Maybe that's how it begins, and before long you're going around repeating the line Bill France says he stole from Hemingway: "There are only three sports. Bullfighting, mountain climbing and car racing. All the rest are just games...
...down an Indian Air Force helicopter Friday in a battle against insurgents in Kashmir. "The Stinger is perhaps the surest sign that the infiltrators have an Afghan mujahedeen connection," says TIME New Delhi correspondent Maseeh Rahman. But the guerrillas that occupied Indian military positions atop 17,000-feet-high mountain peaks are certainly no weekend warriors, leading to the accusations by India that Pakistan is behind the whole thing. "These guys moved into some of the worst terrain in the world in the dead of winter when the area is almost uninhabitable," says Rahman. "They reinforced their positions, built bunkers...
Mount Everest is being stubborn about revealing its secrets. The international expedition which set out to find the remains of George Mallory, the Briton who 75 years ago died in his attempt to be first to climb the world?s highest mountain, has returned from its search -- and is split about whether Mallory succeeded. Although the team did find the explorer?s frozen remains in the snow -- including several letters, goggles, and other personal effects -- they did not find the body of his climbing partner, Andrew Irvine, nor the object they dearly hoped to find: a Kodak camera, which might...
...were the first to successfully reach Everest?s peak in 1953. Team members expressed the hope to return another time to search for Irvine and the camera. Before leaving Mallory, they paid him their last respects. They gathered rocks and buried him, to rest forever in peace in the mountain he tried to conquer...
...revisit your policy anyway. You should do that every few years to make sure your policy fits your constantly changing insurance needs. That car you covered three years ago has depreciated. It may not be worth the price of collision insurance. And if $500 doesn't seem like the mountain of money it once was, raise your deductible to cut your premium as much as 30%. If you've moved to a rural location or drive much less than before, you can get a lower rate. You can also get discounts by bundling several cars on one policy...