Word: ranging
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...happened six years ago. The phone rang and changed my life. My doctor was calling with what he said was good news. The lump detected by my mammogram was less than a centimeter, easy to treat. I asked, "Are you telling me I have cancer?" I was stunned and in denial, yet within hours I was struggling with my manager--and myself--over whether to go public. I dreaded the exposure. But my mammogram had probably saved my life (I'm now cancer free), and I believed that publicizing it would encourage other women to get tested...
...Dublin, Ireland, one of Einhorn's first stops. He and his new girlfriend rented an apartment from a Trinity College professor named Denis Weaire. When Weaire visited friends in Chicago in April 1981, he told them about this mysterious character named Einhorn. His friends thought the name rang a bell; they called newspapers and got the full story. Weaire evicted Einhorn, but Irish police told him that with no extradition treaty in force at the time, there was no cause for arrest, and the Unicorn jumped...
...Instead, I was relegated to the back entrance and hustled up a confusing rear stairway. At the top, I found a locked door with a sign that said, “Ring for service.” I rang. A secretary opened the door a minute later and shuffled me into a nearby back office...
...Ellie Weihenmayer's phone rang with updates of her husband's ascent up the white monster called Everest. But the reports did little to ease her nerves. It had been almost two weeks since she last heard his voice, and she'd spent too many sleepless nights chasing away fears of avalanches and infinitely deep crevasses. Then, at 10 p.m. on May 24, the news came: Erik had reached the summit. "My friends and I broke out in celebration," recalls Ellie...
...cope with wet weather. When a two year long drought broke earlier this year, Kenyans thanked God. At long last they could have regular power and water again. They were less pleased when whole suburbs of Nairobi lost their phone lines for a month. Thus affected, I rang Telkom Kenya, the state-owned monopoly, from my one working line every few days to get updates on the progress of their repair work on my main line. After a couple of weeks, the manager in charge of my suburb took to blaming the weather for the slow progress...