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...fragile. And it's all yours. The only hikers up here tend to be hardcore backpackers who cut off their toothbrush handles to lighten their loads. You're not even winded. Charlie Cox, a carpet-store owner from Glenwood Springs who heads the local snowmobilers' club, stares at a sheer red cliff glowing in the distance. "This is something we don't tell people in New York about," he says. "Or Denver." Cox, 51, climbs back onto his red Polaris Xplorer 400, knowing that this might be one of his last rides up Red Creek...
...plethora of grilling gear is only partly a case of consumerism run rampant. Barbecuing is the classic multitasking cuisine. First, there's the sheer spectacle of it: it's cooking as showing off. Grillers with a flair for the dramatic can cook such eye-catching dishes as beer-can chicken (cooked standing upright on two legs with a half-drunk beer shoved into its cavity). Then there's the opportunity to network. Who can resist rallying around the chef while he slaves over the swordfish? As Raichlen says, "Nobody ever comes and gives me a beer and a kiss hello...
Speaking before reporters last Friday, prosecutor Del Ponte insisted that "the Serbian people are not on trial here. It is Slobodan Milosevic as an individual who will now face trial." But beginning with Milosevic's arraignment Tuesday, the sheer sensation of the trial will thrust many long-concealed crimes into the light and force Serbs to confront the scope of atrocities allegedly commanded by Milosevic but carried out by ordinary men and women, in their guises as soldiers and paramilitaries. The tribunal's original indictment against Milosevic, issued in 1999, deals with the atrocities committed by Serb and Yugoslav army...
...that Google, HotBot and other popular search engines are bad - in fact they're better than ever and improving constantly - but the technology they employ is no match for the sheer speed and diversity of Web growth. Search engines rely mostly on crawlers, software robots that hop from site to site and from one URL (uniform resource locator, or Web address) to another, indexing the contents of pages as they go. For most pages, crawlers do a fine, if slow, job. But when they bump into sites where information is held inside a database, they grind to a halt...
...Beset by such seemingly unstoppable forces, the future looks very dark indeed for orangutans. So dark that even a primatologist like the affable Robert Shumaker of the National Zoo in Washington, who takes evident pride in his scientific objectivity, is overwhelmed by the sheer finality of the end they face. "My wife is six months pregnant and the idea that I may have to tell my son that I saw it happen, that we let this happen, we let them just disappear...