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...that a third of the American Alpine Club's members are over 50, as are almost 10% of Outward Bound's wilderness-trip enrollees and an increasing number of guide-service clients. "They want to experience as much as they can before they check out," says Lou Whittaker, 74, a guide on Washington's Mount Rainier for a half-century. But couch potatoes beware. To succeed at the summit, you must be cautious, alert and in phenomenal shape; otherwise, you put yourself at high risk (see sidebar...
...facing death, didn't want soul; they wanted cheek and sass, a moment's escape, girl gags, second-lieutenant gags, K-ration gags--well-machined jokes that drowned out the machinery of war. They loved him for the trouble he took on their behalf. And their affection spread outward...
...addition to strengthening existing connections to Boston and Cambridge public school systems, Lagemann has turned her gaze outward to include President Bush’s “No Child Left Behind Act” and other policy issues of national importance...
...Whatever challenges confront the new press secretary - who is likely to be Fleischer's deputy, Scott McClellan - they will all be framed in the context of the approaching 2004 election. Always nervous that the president's official duties will seem politically motivated, the White House wants to conceal any outward appearance of striving for victory while working robustly behind the scenes to do just that. No one will have to maintain this balance more than the new resident behind the podium. In 2000, Bush's team tried to keep the press at bay, much as it does in the White...
...broadest of Summers’ priorities—planning for a future campus across the river in Allston—there were few outward signs of progress, but Summers said headway was made nonetheless...