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...heard so many avalanches in every direction. Two people got killed while I was there because they tried to get up the icefall to Camp 1. They were climbing at a sensible time, like 6 a.m., before the sun was up, and still got blown out. They found one pair of boots. You need quite a lot of blast to blow somebody out of their boots...
...Prisoners plotting escapes have found that a cell phone can be just as valuable as a pair of bolt cutters. "I had an inmate escape from one of my prisons just this week, and guess what he used to get his ride - a cell phone," says Richard Subia, assistant director for California's Division of Adult Institutions. "According to our investigation so far, he contacted a girlfriend by cell phone and had her pick him up in one of the local towns. We're still out searching...
...majority-female panel bestowed most of their benisons on difficult art films, not movies that strain to entertain. In a festival where 12 of the 20 competition films ran two hours or longer, and five clocked in near two and a half hours, the top honors went to a pair of these epic-length dramas. Austrian and French films received the top two prizes; an Austrian actor and a French actress took the awards for best performances, in English-language films. No American won anything. (See pictures of the red carpet at Cannes...
...number set to Amy Winehouse's "Rehab" is the funniest thing I've seen on TV this year. But this raises the question of how good a match it really is for the Idol audience, who tend to like their glitter dreams earnest. Indeed, the jock-meets-music-geek pair-up is a straight lift from, and parody...
...game, another Crimson single-season record. Brown finished the season with a 16-7 record and a 1.49 ERA in 28 appearances. Her four saves were good for 10th-best in the nation. She pitched 15 complete games on the season, including two shutouts, three two-hitters and a pair of one-hitters. Brown was especially dominant in preseason action, earning MVP honors at both the Highlander Classic and Miken Classic. Among Ivy pitchers, she ranked in the top three in all major pitching categories. The freshman led the league in strikeouts, saves, innings pitched (150.1), and opponent batting average...