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...Huntington Ravine near the HMC-operated cabin. The climber lost his footing due to a gust of wind and fell about 125 meters down the snow slope, according to Justin Preisendorfer, a snow ranger at the White Mountain National Forest. The climber suffered fractures to his arm and rib damage resulting from the fall, HMC President Lucas T. Laursen ’06 wrote in an e-mail. After the accident, one of the injured climber’s partners went down to the HMC-operated cabin and told its caretaker, Jon Husson...
...haunting and strangely familiar work probes beyond the body and into the nervous system. A sequence of wooden blocks reminiscent of spinal vertebrae swings in front of a lattice of silicone nerves; in a nearby corner, a maze of slender cords dangles out of a hanging metal rib cage and pelvic structure. “I’m exploring how we experience the world and how the nervous system plays a role in allowing those experiences to happen,” she says. Surveying the studio’s lively disarray of half-finished projects and discarded body parts...
...small-business owners last week, he urged them not to let large outside firms steal all the recovery business up for grabs. "Don't let 'em pull a razoo on you," he said, using the local slang for cheating at marbles. A day after dining on hickory-grilled rib-eye steak and praline bread pudding with Allen and President George W. Bush in the French Quarter, Nagin managed to salvage a potentially deflating photo op last week. The Rev. Jesse Jackson had arrived with a bus convoy of what was supposed to be 200 New Orleans evacuees returning home...
...meetings, says an Israeli official, "it takes only about five minutes to see how close Rice is to the President." For months after Bush gave Rice her new job, he mocked her relentlessly, addressing her with exaggerated puffery as "MADAME SECRETARY!" whenever she entered the room. "He likes to rib her," says a senior White House official--which in Bush's world is a sign of his affection. Both rely heavily on the intimate bond forged during the first term. They see each other in weekly small-group meetings but frequently discuss policy issues in private, often over lunch...
...after 10 years traveling the world with the WTA tour, deLone was ready to leave. A stress fracture in her rib and a feeling of accomplishment on the tour made her eager to return to Harvard...