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Ferris was also an accomplished mountain climber who served as director of the American Alpine Club. He was part of the first team to climb the second-highest peak in North America, Mt. St. Elias...
...rules (at least in Orange County), fires must be out by 10 or 11 p.m. Beaches abound with college and high school students, except for the Fourth of July when everyone goes. Malibu Beach is the set for TV's "Baywatch" and filming takes place during the off-peak season. However, the Malibu/Santa Monica area is renowned for its many star sightings, as many own homes there...
...Corleone and the rest of the Godfather gang abandoned the page for a more glamorous life on the screen, Mario Puzo has started a new family. The Last Don (Random House; 482 pages; $25.95) introduces the Clericuzios, a crime clan based in the Bronx, New York, and at the peak of its dark powers. Fortunately, Puzo too is in top form...
...real life, there are infinitely many, as many as the possible variations on a Bach fugue. In a way, it's comforting that the store of knowledge is never exhaustible. On the other hand, it feels like a losing battle. But in mid-July, the summer still at its peak, anything seems possible--the knowledge is there for the taking, at least until September comes...
...feelings went from disbelief to excitement to downright fear," says Spahr's survey partner, Carl Hergenrother, 23, an Arizona undergraduate who verified the find with a 90-in. telescope atop nearby Kitt Peak. "It was scary, because there was the possibility that we were confirming the demise of some city somewhere, or some state or small country...