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...govern is ourselves. What a cop-out, huh? Wouldn't it be nobler by far to fight the good fight with all the weapons available: a firm bass voice, a wagging finger, the Bible? After all, this teen-drinking business is serious. Just because I survived my 12-pack road trips and puke-a-thon proms doesn't mean my daughter will. That scares me. But parenthood in general scares me. Something else scares me too: the idea that if I skip the porch talk, one day, after catching my daughter in her first big spree, I'll have...
Climbing with Erik isn't that different from climbing with a sighted mountaineer. You wear a bell on your pack, and he follows the sound, scuttling along using his custom-made climbing poles to feel his way along the trail. His climbing partners shout out helpful descriptions: "Death fall 2 ft. to your right!" "Emergency helicopter-evacuation pad to your left!" He is fast, often running up the back of less experienced climbers. His partners all have scars from being jabbed by Erik's climbing poles when they slowed down...
...eager he is to get back home. He says summiting Everest was great, probably the greatest experience of his life. But then he thinks about a moment a few months ago, before Everest, when he was walking down the street in Colorado with daughter Emma in a front pack. They were on their way to buy some banana bread for his wife, and Emma was pulling on his hand, her little fingers curled around his index finger. That was a summit too, he says. There are summits everywhere. You just have to know where to look...
JUDGMENT AWARDED. To RICHARD BOEKEN, 56, steadfast two-pack-a-day Marlboro smoker for 40 years, found to have lung cancer in 1999; more than $3 billion in damages from cigarette maker Philip Morris; in Los Angeles. Boeken's lawyer accused Philip Morris of pushing smoking as "cool" despite its addictiveness, which he measured by recounting that his client had quashed addictions to heroin and alcohol, but couldn't quit smoking...
...After eight years of Clinton appointments, George W. Bush wants to quickly pack the federal courts with as many conservative jurists as he can. Daschle has promised not to block or stall confirmations as Republicans did with many of Clinton's judicial nominees. Sen. Patrick Leahy, the new chairman of the Judiciary Committee, insists there won't be payback for the last eight years when Republicans left many Clinton picks languishing in committee. But Leahy is quick to add, "we're not going to have a judiciary made up of ideologues on the right." Translated: W can probably expect just...