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CRUMBLED. THE OLD MAN OF THE MOUNTAIN, the stern granite profile, which has for generations been the state's most recognizable landmark, carved naturally by a glacier 30,000 years ago into New Hampshire's Cannon Mountain; as a result of erosion, after decades of efforts to preserve it; in Franconia Notch State Park. The 40-ft. face has appeared on license plates, postage stamps and the state quarter. New Hampshire officials are debating whether to restore the monument...
...process today is automated. Most of what those kura produce is sake of regular grade, often sold in paper cartons and best served hot. Its low quality might account for falling sales. Some breweries, including many in Kobe's Nada ward?sake central for centuries because of its pure mountain-spring water?are trying to reach younger drinkers with products like low-alcohol, low-calorie sake, while also appealing to Japanese nostalgia by encouraging visits. Hakutsuru, the No. 1 brewery, has preserved its 1743 kura as a museum to showcase ancient sakemaking methods...
...Ruben and Clay each belted out a signature song ("Just the Way You Are" and "Unchained Melody," respectively), then joined last year's final two, Kelly Clarkson and Justin Guarini, who appeared live on stage, for "Ain't No Mountain High Enough." Nice tunes, guys, but - live on satellite? The point of reality TV, Fox, is that you *own* the contestants' asses. Tired, schmired - they can damn well fly out and dance *in person* for the moneymen...
...Still, there were many challenges I couldn't confront until I went to the mountain, such as the Khumbu Icefall: 609 meters of jumbled-up ice boulders?some the size of baseballs, others as big as buildings?constantly collapsing and exploding as the ice expanded and contracted. As I weaved through the labyrinth, I could hear huge ice columns groaning and cracking overhead. My first trip took a miserable 13 hours through a frozen maze, a blind person's worst nightmare. No two steps were alike as I zigzagged over thin snow bridges and leapt over deep cracks onto shifting...
...modern world's history, with all its challenges and abuses?and the unparalleled opportunities for human endeavor. To me, it's perfectly fitting that an adventure which began with ?lite climbers is undertaken by a blind guy 50 years later. We cannot step back and close the mountain, for retreat would annihilate the modern age's greatest gift to humanity: the freedom of an individual to choose his own path...