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...FOOTBALL 2,500 Meters above sea level set by world soccer body FIFA as the new altitude limit for international games, citing concerns over players' health 4 Number of South American nations with stadiums above 2,500 m-Bolivia, Colombia, Peru and Ecuador-that have complained they may have to relocate matches...
Locals in Riga, the Latvian capital, have a favorite trivia question: what was the biggest city in the 17th century Swedish empire? (Hint: it wasn't Stockholm.) For centuries, the stately medieval port on the shores of the eastern Baltic Sea served as the bustling gateway between Russia and the West. Then, following World War II, it withered after the Iron Curtain fell across Eastern Europe, cutting it off from the outside world. But Riga is now experiencing a renaissance. It may not have re-established the prominence it enjoyed 400 years ago, but as any of its trivia-wielding...
Roatan is a lush tropical island of some 60,000 people and a paradise for scuba divers in the west of Honduras. It has lately also become a boom town for American investors seeking to buy into lucrative sea-front condominium communities that are going up across this 36-mile-long island, a two-and-a-half-hour flight from Houston. But what many of the developers and buyers don't know or refuse to acknowledge is that Roatan has the second highest incidence of AIDS in Honduras, after the port city of San Pedro Sula. Health care workers...
...before the Flowers Bay talk, which had been canceled because the organizers could not find a proper venue, he found Mrs. Warner, a wizened elderly resident, who offered up her front lawn - a patch of windswept dirt - for the event. Fried managed to borrow several plastic chairs from the Sea Breeze Bar across the street. A single lightbulb hooked onto a long electrical cord and suspended from an old wooden ladder was rigged up as a spotlight as Fried addressed a small group of local residents...
...natural resource when they see one, have thrown the peak open to tourism. Expeditions charge climbers, often unskilled, up to $65,000 to be walked to the top. In the spring of 1996, 14 groups from 11 countries swarmed Everest's lower campsite, digging in 17,600 ft. above sea level in preparation for an attempt on the summit. Among the expeditions was a 26-member New Zealand team, headed by Hall, that included Krakauer, Dallas pathologist Beck Weathers and Doug Hansen, a U.S. postal worker who had failed in a previous climb. Also on hand was an American group...