Word: nova
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DIED. CHARLIE BYRD, 74, classically trained jazz-guitar virtuoso; of cancer; in Annapolis, Md. His 1962 album Jazz Samba, with saxophonist Stan Getz, popularized bossa nova in North America. Byrd recorded more than 100 albums, and was honored this year by Brazil as a Knight of the Rio Branco...
...edge. Stolen Moments: Red Hot + Cool (1994) deftly combines the talents of jazz acts (Ron Carter, Joshua Redman) and hip-hoppers (the Roots, Spearhead). Red Hot + Rio (1996) features such performers as Maxwell, Sting and Cape Verdean singer Cesaria Evora exploring the music of Brazil; a terrific companion CD, Nova Bossa: Red Hot on Verve, showcases the work of Brazilian acts from the '50s, '60s and '70s (Antonio Carlos Jobim, Caetano Veloso...
...summit or on the way down after successfully reaching the top. Mallory and his fellow climber Andrew Irvine might turn out to have been the first to summit Everest, long before Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay did so in 1953. The PBS show "Nova" is documenting the current expedition, which is searching not just for Mallory's remains but also for any shreds of proof that he made...
High on their wish list is Mallory's Kodak Vest Pocket camera which might have undeveloped shots from the summit. The "Nova" production will be the most recent in a string of Everest-related media events, including the highly-acclaimed "Everest" Omnimax film and Jon Krakauer's best-selling account of a 1996 disaster on the mountain, Into Thin Air. Few of us can get enough of the myth and stories of the often painful reality surrounding the world's tallest mountain. The hype has even extended to the Web, where the site everest.mountainzone.com is sponsoring the expedition and selling...
With a bit more exploration, the mountainzone/"NOVA" climbers may find the camera that will tell us whether Mallory and Irvine actually made it to the top. The documentary of the search will make great TV, and the Web site will probably be overloaded with requests for t-shirts and Everest fleeces. I just hope that Mallory's three famous words are not lost in the hype. We should all remember the importance of taking some challenges "because they're there" and not just in the hope of imagined glory in the outcome...