Word: reach
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tell you that he's as driven, tense and temperamental as he has ever been," says author Alan Deutschman, whose unauthorized portrait of Jobs is due out next year. Many Apple employees, Deutschman says, still fear getting in an elevator with Jobs, lest they find themselves fired before they reach their floor...
...moved there first, after college, and was working as a copper smelter. Ted was building his cabin on land the brothers had bought together outside Lincoln. One day, Ted recalls, they took their baseball gloves to a park. "We were as far apart as we could get and still reach each other with the ball," Ted says, smiling, as if lost in the moment. "We were throwing that ball as hard as we could, and as far as we could... And so we were making these running, leaping catches. We made more fantastic catches that day than I think...
...dance company and an acting company coming together." The feel is that of a trio of exquisitely tooled MGM-style production numbers, but updated (Fred Astaire didn't use the F word in The Band Wagon) and given emotional weight. Each playlet is peopled with lonely hearts longing to reach out to someone, and when they finally touch, your own heart will do all the singing necessary...
...open water on ice blocks bound by ropes, skiing through clouds of drifting snow. Burton Meyer of Downers Grove, Ill., a retired toy designer, first crossed the North Pole with Northwest Passage at 69. Among his companions: a 16-year-old schoolgirl, one of only three women ever to reach the pole on foot. Meyer remembers everything about his trip, the second of 12 he's made with the company: "We traveled 13 miles a day with two 10-dog teams, breaking camp in the morning and setting it up at the end of day, struggling through blizzards, trying...
...climbed El Capitan and every other seemingly impossible mountain, was caught in an avalanche on Gongga Shan in China in 1980. He and three companions rode the avalanche down 1,500 ft.; one of the others broke his neck and died. "Nowadays, people are interested only in reaching the top so they can tell others they did it," says Chouinard. "So they climb Everest with a Sherpa tied to them by a 3-ft. rope, one behind and one in front. Their beds are made when they reach camp. Someone has put a chocolate mint on the sheets. They...