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...left him bivouacked with food, a gas stove and a sleeping bag, as well as a realistic assessment of how long it might take for help to come. "Oscar knew it would take six or seven days for a rescue team to reach him," says Alfonso Uriel, spokesman for Peña Guara, the Huesca climbing club that has been organizing the effort. "So psychologically, he's prepared. He knows not to give up hope after just a couple of days." (Read "Blind to Failure," the story of a sightless mountaineer...
...their rescue up front, and it took several days to pull the money together. Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero called his Pakistani counterpart to ask for assistance with the rescue, but it took some time before the wheels were in motion. On Aug. 11, Peña Guara released a press statement saying the efforts were slow and complicated, and calling the situation desperate. "The Pakistanis were working on it, but there's a lot of bureaucracy there," says Uriel. "Everything goes at its own pace." (See pictures of Pakistan beneath the surface...
...days, it has been the front page of most of the national papers, and headlines Thursday announced that Secretary of State for Sports Jaime Lissavetsky was "optimistic" that Pérez would be saved within 48 hours. But everyone remains tense. "If we pull this rescue off," says Peña Guara's Uriel, "it'll be a milestone in the history of climbing." Sadly for all concerned, it doesn't look as if that milestone will be attained...
...Kids at the first school, an expensive private academy, got an average of 9.2 hours per week of scheduled, usually rigorous physical education. Kids at the two other schools - one in a village near Plymouth and the other an urban school - got just 2.4 hours and 1.7 hours of PE per week, respectively...
...matter how much PE they got during school hours, when you look at the whole day, the kids from the three schools moved the same amount, at about the same intensity. The kids at the fancy private school underwent significantly more physical activity before 3 p.m., but overall they didn't move more. "Once they get home, if they are very active in school, they are probably staying still a bit more because they've already expended so much energy," says Alissa Frémeaux, a biostatistician who helped conduct the study. "The others are more likely to grab...