Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Same with mountain climbing," he says. Chouinard, who has 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...
...Say this for the structure of the universe: it does tend to repeat itself. Stars orbit the pivot point at the center of galaxies, planets in turn orbit stars, and moons in turn orbit planets. Last week astronomers writing in the journal Nature announced that this cosmic reductionism goes even further. For the first time, ground-based telescopes spotted a tiny moonlet orbiting a mere asteroid in Earth's own solar system...
Weaving is a simple, sedentary activity--you just sit at a loom and pull the weft through the warp--right? Wrong. It's complex, strenuous and, Navajo weavers say, mystical. "Weaving is your thought," says Pearl Sunrise, who teaches a $355, five-day workshop at the Taos Institute of Arts in New Mexico. "You need to use your motor skills, your psychological being and your spirituality." Emily Hyatt of North Carolina has been weaving all her life and has a business educating schoolchildren about the history of the craft. But in Pearl's class she was a beginner again. Previously...
Steve Jobs can. Though he has no more to do with the creation of Pixar movies than, say, Time Warner chairman Gerald Levin had to do with The Matrix, he is a whiz at cajoling, nudging and cheering on John Lasseter and the other gentle geniuses in the Pixar cave to get stuff done. So with a great push, Toy Story 2 will be ready for its Nov. 24 release. It's nearly completed now, and judging by a sneak peek last week, we'd say it looks like high-comic computer...
...enough to make you forget the sales pitch. And the characters are so alive that if someone asks you, "Isn't Toy Story 2 a computer-generated cartoon?" you may say, "You know, I never noticed. I was too busy having a great time...