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...madness. Standing on top of the peak is roughly equivalent to stopping a passenger jet in mid-flight and climbing out onto the wing. The altitude is the same, the 40[degrees]F- below-zero temperature is the same, and, most disturbingly, the lung-shredding, brain-addling atmosphere--barely one-third the pressure of sea-level air--is the same. In the 44 years since New Zealander Edmund Hillary and a Sherpa climber, Tenzing Norgay, first scaled the peak, more than 700 people have followed them to the top; at least 150 others have died in the attempt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mountain Without Mercy | 5/26/2007 | See Source »

Xzibit, host of MTV's Pimp My Ride Bridget Marquardt, one-third of Hugh Hefner's girlfriend and star of E!'s The Girls Next Door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Alt TIME 100 | 5/3/2007 | See Source »

Sophomore Adam Cole lasted just one-third of an inning in his first Ivy League start of the season, walking three and allowing four hits before departing with the bases loaded in the top of the first in the nightcap...

Author: By Jonathan Lehman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Game Two Disaster Tarnishes Haviland’s Gem | 4/26/2007 | See Source »

...took only one-third of an inning to turn Adam Cole’s season around. Coming into the second game of a doubleheader against Princeton on April 7, Cole had already given up six earned runs and 13 walks in 10 1/3 innings, and had lost his job in the starting rotation...

Author: By Loren Amor, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Unproven Staff Armed For Stretch Run | 4/17/2007 | See Source »

...coming home. Nearly 18% of people over 60 who moved across state lines say they are returning to their hometown, according to the Census Bureau. Demographers Christopher Briem of the University of Pittsburgh and Peter A. Morrison of the Rand Corp. found that more than one-third of the elderly who moved to Pittsburgh from 1995 to 2000 had relocated from Florida...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Homeward Bound | 4/12/2007 | See Source »

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