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Alpine climber Yuichiro Miura knows something about rapid descent?in 1970 he became the first person ever to ski Mount Everest, hurtling more than a mile down the peak's icy flank in less than two minutes, and barely surviving. But handling the downhill slope of his own life proved trickier. Miura retired from climbing at age 60, deciding he was too old to haul himself up mountains anymore, but after five lazy years of Japanese beer and Korean barbecue, he had an epiphany: "I was only talking about my past, not my future. I wanted to challenge my dreams...
...final choice - pairing Christian Democrat black with Social Democratic red - the government will appear oddly colorless. Missing from any Cabinet will be the country's brightest politician, Joschka Fischer, 57, Foreign Minister and Vice Chancellor since 1998. The street-fighting iconoclast who settled happily into a role at the peak of the German establishment, and whose international fame and personal popularity always seemed out of kilter with the modest size of his Green party, has retired from frontline politics. He left the Bundestag, the seat of parliament in central Berlin, with a wave at waiting reporters and a typically informal...
...22nd Annual Chatsworth Cranberry Festival cranfest.org in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey takes place at the peak of the harvest period, on Oct. 15 and 16. The New Jersey cranberry harvest is the third largest in the country, and this festival offers tours of the cranberry bogs, music, antiques and crafts exhibitions, and a feast of cranberry-infused foods, including cranberry cakes and pies, cranberry pepper spread, cranberry ketchup and cranberry wine...
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...weather forecast website lists peak foliage dates for 38 states