Word: peaks
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...search for the A-10 centers on New York Mountain, a rugged, 12,467-ft. peak in the central Rockies where several eyewitnesses reported seeing fires and smoke and hearing a loud explosion on April 2. Since then, though, several fresh feet of snow have been dumped on the already remote and snowy area, and search aircraft have been mostly grounded by bad weather. But even if the jet is found, some vital information will be missing: the A-10 carries no black box. Investigators may never learn why Captain Button did not radio for help--or why he veered...
...competence were somewhere on the mountain at the time. Ten of these were commercial ventures, run by professional adventure-travel guides, whose clients, some experienced climbers and some not, paid as much as $65,000 or $70,000 a head to be led up the world's highest peak. "With enough determination, any bloody idiot can get up this hill," said New Zealander Rob Hall, a respected climber who headed Adventure Consultants, the best-known of the guiding outfits. Hall added, in a comment that was to echo mournfully, "The trick is to get back down alive...
Cabot-sleeping reaches a peak during exam period when the library is open 24 hours...
MOVIES . . . VOLCANO: "We're pretty sure that Nostradamus predicted a pre-millennial Hollywood plague of natural-disaster movies," says TIME's Richard Corliss. Last year, 'Twister;' this fall, 'The Flood.' In February, 'Dante?s Peak' sent small-town folk scurrying from their local Vesuvius; now Mick Jackson?s 'Volcano' has man tamper in God?s domain, by daring to build a subway in L.A. "The script," Corliss notes, "thus exploits two major fears of Angelenos: getting demolished by a horrid subterranean force, and having to take public transportation. The gookum-like lava is less smothering than the plot clich?s...
...That's our current problem," said coach Jenny Allard. "We're not doing what we're capable of. When we really get after teams and just keep on at it, that's when we'll peak." Holy Cross 1 Harvard...