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...teammate Michael O'Donnell. "He looked like George Foreman had beat the crap out of him for two hours." The beating had actually been administered by Erik's climbing partner, Luis Benitez. Erik had slipped into a crevasse, and as Benitez reached down to catch him, his climbing pole raked Erik across the nose and chin. Wounds heal slowly at that altitude because of the thin...
...finally got my answer from a city worker. The box was a small relay station designed to send signals to and from wireless modems. It had landed outside my bedroom courtesy of Metricom's Ricochet network. The California-based company is blanketing more than a dozen U.S. cities with pole-top radio transceivers strategically positioned every five to 10 blocks so we can send e-mail, visit websites and otherwise reach out and touch the Internet--wirelessly--anytime, anyplace...
...bright but cool in the backyard of the Duck Pond preschool in Oakland, Calif.--perfect climbing weather. So Chloe Fillinger pulled herself to the top of the play structure, where she reached for the fire fighter's pole, her three-year-old body poised for a fast ride to the bottom. Her hand flailed in empty space. "Cynthia!" she called to her teacher. "The pole is gone...
...FULL STOP This maneuver inexplicably failed on the hill of lap four. As I came into the steep grade of the hill I stepped on my right foot and planted my right pole in the snow. Next I went to push with my right pole and step onto my left foot, thus moving myself forward. Instead of the expected motion forward, this reliable method of propelling myself on skis resulted in net zero progress. I've fallen down skiing countless times, I've stumbled, I've crumpled, I've flopped. I've jammed a pole into the snow between...
EVACUATED. RONALD SHEMENSKI, 59, physician at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station; stricken with gallstones and pancreatitis; to Punta Arenas, Chile. In the second such mission in a year and a half--Dr. Jerri Nielsen, suffering from breast cancer, was rescued from the same station in October 1999--a team flying a twin-engine prop plane braved -90[Degrees]F winter weather and complete darkness...