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...Spanish rock climber destined to be the first Spanish woman to reach the top of Everest. Jamling Tenzing Norgay is the son of "Tiger" Tenzing Norgay, who, along with Sir Edmund Hillary, first topped the mountain. The third, Ed Viesters, is a seasoned Everest climber who shuns oxygen tanks, facing the oxygen-poor environment on his own terms...

Author: By Rebecca A. Berman, | Title: Screening Mount Everest | 4/16/1998 | See Source »

...team heads up the mountain, time is as much an enemy as the mountainous terrain itself. The climbers cross the avalanche-ridden Khumbu Icefall for a second time en route to the top. When they reach their previous camp, the climbers split up with Vesturs taking the lead sans oxygen. Finally, the climbers reach the top but, as is often true of hard-earned achievements, they can only celebrate briefly before retreating to their warmer, more oxygen-rich base...

Author: By Rebecca A. Berman, | Title: Screening Mount Everest | 4/16/1998 | See Source »

...million NASA probe thinks it has found between 10 and 100 million tons of the stuff, buried in polar craters -- enough to fill a lake two miles square and 35 feet deep. That kind of quantity, presumably deposited by comets and asteroids, could help us build oxygen-breathing lunar colonies and interplanetary refueling stations -- in the long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Moon River: Wider Than a Mile | 3/5/1998 | See Source »

When the Feds nabbed Larry Wayne Harris and friend for allegedly carrying around enough anthrax to wipe out Las Vegas, CP's first thoughts were for safe havens. Would mere anthrax spores be able to permeate the casinos, those air-conditioned, oxygen-fed castles which house our nation's desperate souls? Perhaps not. Clearly, the message is: don't ever stop gambling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Weapons of Mass Potato | 2/20/1998 | See Source »

...outlet for stress, which is something many Harvard students could certainly use. Ernetta explains that stress triggers a process that can lead to a cycle of pain and muscle spasm. Stress releases endocrines into the system, and if an individual does not return to homeostasis, muscles remain contracted and oxygen deprivation occurs. This deprivation hurts. Too bad Ernetta doesn't teach...

Author: By Lynda A. Yast, | Title: Knead to Relax? | 2/19/1998 | See Source »

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