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...flexible ankles. His conditioning is exemplary and his heart rate low. He is stockier than most mountaineers, who tend toward lanky, long muscles. But he possesses an abundance of the one indispensable characteristic of a great mountaineer: mental toughness, the ability to withstand tremendous amounts of cold, discomfort, physical pain, boredom, bad food, insomnia and tedious conversation when you're snowed into a pup tent for a week on a 3-ft.-wide ice shelf at 20,000 ft. (That happened to Erik on Alaska's Denali.) On Everest, toughness is perhaps the most important trait a climber can have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Adventure: Blind To Failure | 6/18/2001 | See Source »

...make excuses for them," charged a Minnesotan, who recommended, "you should do a follow-up and tell the story of the victims' families." A New Hampshire man strongly echoed that thought: "These prisoners may grieve for lost opportunities and freedom, but where are the grief and remorse for the pain they caused their unsuspecting victims and their families?" In the faraway Maldives, a reader was more than content to keep his distance from our killer kids: "Please don't spread this gun disease. We don't care what is happening in the darkness of American jails...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 18, 2001 | 6/18/2001 | See Source »

...flexible ankles. His conditioning is exemplary and his heart rate low. He is stockier than most mountaineers, who tend toward lanky, long muscles. But he possesses an abundance of the one indispensable characteristic of a great mountaineer: mental toughness, the ability to withstand tremendous amounts of cold, discomfort, physical pain, boredom, bad food, insomnia and tedious conversation when you're snowed into a pup tent for a week on a 3-ft.-wide ice shelf at 20,000 ft. (That happened to Erik on Alaska's Denali.) On Everest, toughness is perhaps the most important trait a climber can have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blind To Failure | 6/18/2001 | See Source »

...cosponsor of Norwood's bill. While they kept Norwood closeted in endless meetings, Bush aides secretly helped write a bill more to their liking with GOP Sen. Bill Frist and moderates John Breaux and Jim Jeffords. That measure channels all suits into federal courts and limits jury awards for pain and suffering to just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside the Battle over the Patients' Bill of Rights | 6/18/2001 | See Source »

...hate the press for making such a big deal of theirs. But it's also the press that makes it impossible for Dad to claim that in his day he never did such a thing. Friends and family happily volunteer the story of young George arriving home, feeling no pain, running his car into trash cans and confronting his father with the taunt, "Wanna go mano a mano?" Then there's the famous D.U.I. that came out at the end of the campaign. Just two weeks ago at Yale, Bush wore the no-sweat saunter of the frat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Story Better Left Untold | 6/11/2001 | See Source »

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