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...pleasant. The sunset is every bit as gorgeous from here, at the summit of the long-dormant volcano Mauna Kea, but temperatures hover around 38[degrees]F, with a windchill that dips well below freezing. At an altitude of nearly 14,000 ft., the atmosphere carries barely half the oxygen it does at sea level, so the slightest exertion can leave visitors gasping. Those who travel to the summit without getting properly acclimated risk altitude sickness and even death...
...dorkiest slumber party ever, if you don't include that show on Oxygen. No one was allowed to go home until the election was decided. There was a special menu posted in the hall - and the 2 a.m. cold buffet included lemon squares and jumbles! Despite the fact that we received new exit polls every one and a half hours, overexcited managing editor Walter Isaacson asked that updates be e-mailed to the staff every half an hour. People were gathered in the hall, excitedly whispering about faithless electors. My coworkers were clearly getting turned...
...what is being planned by the politicians. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak's advisers are sketching out "unilateral separation," which they will impose on the Palestinians if Yasser Arafat declares statehood, something that could happen as soon as this month. That means choking off the Palestinian economy from Israeli oxygen. "Separation is economic war," says Helo. "It is a war of hunger, and it is very dangerous...
Keeping warm can be a primitive but pleasing science. In a fireplace you organize the logs in harmonious balance between wood and air--fuel for the flames to lick and curl about and combust, encouraged by just the right oxygen and draw. A good fire is self-consuming architecture...
...After two heart-in-throat, grab-the-oxygen-mask sessions, the biggest uncertainty in Wall Street investors' minds Friday was apparently about their blood pressure...