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...recent federal study on children in day care has added to our guilty burden, purporting to show a link between day care and aggression in kids in kindergarten. But beyond the headlines, researchers have pointed out that the rise in aggression is actually quite small, that it seems to peak and recede depending on the age of the child, and that the possible reasons for the day care-aggression link are as yet unstudied...
REACHED SUMMIT. ERIK WEIHENMAYER, 32, blind mountaineer; on Mount Everest. The Golden, Colo., climber is the first blind person ever to scale the world's highest peak. Among his 18 climbing teammates was Sherman Bull, 64, the oldest person ever to reach the summit...
When veteran expedition leader Eric Simonson first started mountain guiding in 1973, webcasting was something spiders might do. News of climbing success - or failure - reached the outside world at roughly the speed of yak. Knocking off a big peak might be lauded in an obscure climbing journal, but as far as mainstream audiences were concerned, who cared? These days, however, Simonson sends e-mail from the Rongbuk Glacier in the shadow of Everest's north face and talks as eagerly about dual ISDN lines and transmission rates as he does about rope and backpacks. "Ten years ago we were...
Gyorffy, like Taylor, was effectively competing against herself last weekend. Her peak height of 1.89 meters in the high jump on Sunday was well short of her personal-best 1.96 meter-jump from May 12 that placed her second on the world season performance list, but it was still better than any other collegiate jumper in the nation this year...
...Venezuela by removing environmental requirements for reformulated gasoline; reduce the EPA's categories of "boutique" fuels to three regional blends; waiving the "oxygenate mandate" in fuels; increasing the legal per-mile deduction for business or charitable gasoline use; and asking states temporarily to waive tolls on major roads during peak travel...