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...Tenzing Norgay and his generation of climbers forged a path that the Sherpa people now navigate daily. Their pioneering accomplishments served as a bridge from the communities' isolated, subsistence past to the "relative affluence and sophistication that they enjoy today," writes Tenzing. A Sherpa, working as a high-altitude climber, can make four times the average annual wage of a Nepali. Namche Bazaar, the trading capital of the Khumbu Valley, once comprising a few dozen mud houses, now features neon lights, sophisticated communications systems and blaring rock music. The Khumbu is dotted with medical clinics and schools. But the climbing...
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO The Wrath of Mount Nyiragongo Lava poured down the slopes of Mount Nyiragongo and through the eastern Congolese city of Goma, destroying everything in its path and sending hundreds of thousands of people fleeing for their lives. U.N. officials put the death toll at about 50, as displaced people lined roads into Rwanda and gathered in the town of Gisenyi. As the 3,469-m volcano continued to spew molten rock, earthquakes shook the area and a cloud of smoke hung in the air. The lava flow ended in Lake Kivu, on the border...
...After a year in office, one thing is clear about Bush's political operatives: when they make a mistake, they fix it fast. When their conservative instincts lead them down a path that much of the country isn't keen on, they are awfully good at changing the subject while holding to their original course. Which is why Bush, early last week, said his mother-in-law was one of the little people who got screwed by the corporate giant. On a trip to a West Virginia machinery shop Tuesday, Bush told workers that Jenna Welch, 82, had lost almost...
...during which they were accused of offending American tourists stranded in the wake of the previous day's terrorist attacks. In the program notes for a game after last Wednesday's court hearing, Chelsea chairman Ken Bates encouraged Terry to "ask himself if he wants to follow the path which is littered with drunks and wrecks of former players or emerge from this episode stronger and better for it." But the boss's moralizing didn't stop Chelsea coach Claudio Ranieri from including both players in his starting lineup for the game. Many coaches in England's Premier League have...
...outrage at al-Qaeda fighters now in detention with standards of international law it has long espoused. For most Europeans, the virtuous course seemed clearly marked by the Geneva Conventions. In France and Italy, though, murkier struggles between government leaders and recalcitrant judiciaries showed that finding the righteous path can be a matter not just of principle, but of political dispute...