Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...adventurous, Eastern Europe provides a wide range of possibilities, from the art treasures of Leningrad's Hermitage Museum to mountain climbing in the Caucasus to inspecting the Transylvanian castle of Vlad the Impaler, the model for Dracula (just turn right at the Borgo Pass). "East Germany is probably the best single buy in travel right now," says Bern Marcowitz, vice president of the Cortell Group, a New York tour organizer who offers a 15-day, four-country tour that starts in Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia. Cost: $712. "Eastern Europe in general is more inexpensive, and it's attracting a lot of Americans...
...Just as most runners are smacking into "the Wall"--the point at which one's legs become disobedient slinkies--legendary Heartbreak Hill looms in the distance. Bunched around the 20-mile mark, this mountain range is not just a single hill but a series of hills, the last of which vaguely resembles Mt. McKinley...
...Establishment scorn heaped on Reagan's proposal for antiballistic missile defense could easily a mountain range. A year after Reagan proposed the Star Wars concept, the New York Times derided the system in any form as patently useless: "Since even minor holes in any defense would risk millions of deaths, no system is worth having unless it works almost perfectly. And since it could never be fully tested, perfection is unattainable...
Only infrequently in recent months have the rebels attempted large operations. One sizable attack came three weeks ago, on the slopes of the San Salvador volcano that looms over the capital. Anywhere from 100 to 400 rebels attacked a communications outpost on the mountain, inflicting seven casualties before retreating...
...Psychologist Frank Farley of the University of Wisconsin tells it, many of the world's daredevils, doers and delinquents share a common personality, Type T (for thrill seeking). Whether scientists or criminals, mountain climbers or hot-dog skiers, says Farley, all are driven by temperament, and perhaps biology, to a life of constant stimulation and risk taking. Both the socially useful and the socially appalling Type Ts, he says, "are rejecting the strictures, the laws, the regulations--they are pursuing the unknown, the uncertain...