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...Nepalese mountaineer Pemba Dorje Sherpa completed the fastest-ever ascent of Mount Everest from base camp last week, shaving more than two hours off the old record. Pemba Dorje's feat was one of survival as well as speed: in the same week, four climbers died on Everest...
When Harvard dropped all six first sets to Minnesota in February, the team had to mount a miraculous comeback to manage a 4-3 victory. Turner clinched the fourth point with an 0-6, 7-5, 6-4 win after losing the first seven games...
Even before Clausewitz said war is politics by other means, it was almost impossible to tell where one stopped and the other began. As casualties in Iraq continue to mount--782 Americans have died there in the past 15 months, 12 in the past week--and the twisted images from Abu Ghraib are posted and reposted on websites by the U.S.'s critics around the globe, a growing number of voters are having second thoughts about Bush's instinctive brand of leadership. For the first time since his election, more Americans disapprove than approve of his handling...
Source: Christine Simon and John Cooley, University of Connecticut; Gene Kritsky, College of Mount St. Joseph; Keith Clay, Indiana University; National Geographic; Cicadamania.org
...then opened up a loping lead that looked almost too relaxed to be the blinding gallop it was. Can Smarty and Elliott do it again at the Belmont Stakes on June 5, or will they fold like Funny Cide, last year's darling, did? The man and his mount have done a lot of impossible things in the past month. One more would barely surprise anybody. --Reported by Pohla Smith/Baltimore