Word: peake
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Mountain climbing was one of Jaikumar's favorite pursuits. A guide in the Himalayas during his college years, Jaikumar climbed a 23,000-foot peak...
Last year, he became the first person to reach the top of a remote peak in Greenland. Jaikumar then named the peak "Minarjnik" after his wife Mrinalini Mani, and his two sons, Arjun and Nikhil...
...days after Buffett's disclosure and up nearly 70% since he started buying the precious metal six months ago. Despite the surge, veteran--and thus oft-pummeled--silver traders will note that a price just north of $7 is nothing next to silver's peak in 1980, when it hit $50 amid an infamous attempt by the brothers Herbert and Nelson Hunt to corner the market...
...been operating, no one really knows. Finding out might seem to be a hopeless task, considering that the phenomenon was discovered only about a century ago by Peruvian fishermen. (It was they who called it El Nino, the Spanish name for the Christ child whose December birthday marks its peak.) But last fall, Columbia University oceanographer Richard Fairbanks was floating in the equatorial Pacific gathering data that could tell researchers about El Ninos going back thousands of years. Working aboard the research vessel Moana Wave, Fairbanks spent weeks at El Nino's very epicenter, a patch of ocean near Christmas...
Last weekend, the Harvard women's basketball team ascended to a peak when senior Allison Feaster scored her 2,000th career point versus Yale...