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...Mountain Home, Idaho
...define continent, says Brown. "Some geographers call Australia a continent," he says, "and some call it a very big island. There is no scientific definition." It is human nature to put things into categories, but nature rarely cooperates. What, precisely, is the dividing line between a hill and a mountain? A rock and a boulder? A stream and a river...
...dead, with many thousands injured and more than 2 million people left homeless. In India, the quake killed more than 1,300 and left more than 100,000 without shelter. For the survivors, the devastation of the quake was followed by even more misery, as untold numbers in remote mountain villages went days without seeing any sign of relief. The delay in getting supplies to the disaster zone raised fears of untreated injuries, disease and malnutrition, or worse: the looming snow season could present the specter of masses of people freezing to death...
When the Harvard Mountaineering Club (HMC) turned 80 this past August, it celebrated the occasion with a landmark climbing expedition in the Tien Shan Mountains in Kyrgyzstan. Now, the group hopes to carve its niche in posterity with some tributes of mountainous proportions. The club, which was the first American group to explore the Central Borkoldoy range of these mountains, is allowed to name all nine peaks they mounted, in accordance with mountaineering tradition. The names they have tentatively assigned range from Peak Harvard to Peak Adventure—with one peak bearing a title that holds sentimental value...
...Night at the Hip-Hopera” and ccc’s “Revolved.” Otherwise, I just put iTunes on party shuffle and see what comes up: obscure musicals (“Blood Brothers”), Patsy Cline, the Yonder Mountain String Band, a Brazilian band called Skank, the Pillows, the Notre Dame Glee Club, the fabulousness that is 80s pop, a gay country duo called Y’ALL... My aunt and uncle are musicians (my aunt Kristi Rose started out in the New York rockabilly scene in the mid-80s; my uncle Fats...