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...Everest had become the accessible behemoth, or so it seemed. Never as murderously tricky to climb as K-2, the world's second-highest peak, its challenge lay in the brute facts of its extreme altitude, occasional storms and inaccessibility. As clothing and equipment manufacturers mitigated the first problem, and a sprawling base camp sprang up at 5,340 meters to provide warmth and food to dozens of would-be peak beaters, the issue for elite climbers was no longer whether they could reach Everest's pinnacle but rather how many paying customers they could take with them...
Speaking of Dream Teams, U.S.A. Basketball has named Sacramento Kings guard Mitch Richmond and Phoenix Suns forward Charles Barkley to fill the final two spots on the Olympic team. Richmond, the N.B.A.'s second-highest scoring guard (next to Michael Jordan) and a tough defender, was an expected pick. But the outspoken Barkley, a member of the gold-medal squad in Barcelona, was a surprise selection because he had initially told officials he wasn't interested...
This past week, the Children's Defense Fund announced a new study that shows gunfire to be the second-highest cause of death among children aged 10-19, right behind car accidents...
...Green (3-1, 1-0) inaugurated its Ivy campaign in grand style by dispatching of Penn, 21-14. Junior Scott Hapgood recorded seven goals and one assist in the victory, and has the second-highest overall goals total in the league...
...read the Lampoon as a student at Boston-area Maimonides High School and wrote on his Harvard application that he wanted to write for the humor magazine. During his first year, he comped both The Crimson and the Lampoon, and is now a Crimson editor and Lampoon ibis, the second-highest position in the organization...