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...betting he can sell himself as the Nice Rudy, a boss to keep the city safe without all that Giuliani vindictiveness and soap-opera strife. (Giuliani and his estranged wife have been fighting about whether his girlfriend can visit Gracie Mansion, the mayoral residence. Even New York is getting sick of it.) And Bloomberg's fortune--estimated at $4 billion--isn't his only weapon. John McCain, the most popular politician in the country right now, tells TIME that he will be stumping for Bloomberg. "I hope and intend to campaign for Michael," says the Arizona Senator...
When he saw Erik Weihenmayer arrive that afternoon, Pasquale Scaturro began to have misgivings about the expedition he was leading. Here they were on the first floor of Mount Everest, and Erik--the reason for the whole trip--was stumbling into Camp 1 bloody, sick and dehydrated. "He was literally green," says fellow climber and teammate Michael O'Donnell. "He looked like George Foreman had beat the crap out of him for two hours." The beating had actually been administered by Erik's climbing partner, Luis Benitez. Erik had slipped into a crevasse, and as Benitez reached down to catch...
Everybody gets sick on Everest. It's called the Khumbu Krud, brought on by a combination of high altitude, dirty food, fetid water, intestinal parasites and an utterly alien ecosystem. On Erik's team, at any given moment, half the climbers were running fevers, the others were nauseated, and they all suffered from one form or another of dysentery, an awkward ailment when there's a driving snowstorm and it's 30[degrees] below outside the tent. You relieve yourself however you can, in the vestibule of your tent or in a plastic bag. "It can be a little...
...Weihenmayer and his team after their successful summit. "I couldn't go back to my hotel, and we couldn't go outside because the police were shooting to kill," says Greenfeld. "So Erik and I were stuck in a room together for two days. I think he got pretty sick...
...year lows, real incomes and primary-school test scores rising, crime falling. But there is another Britain of shabby hospitals, underpaid teachers, overcrowded schools and 7 million adults who are functionally illiterate. The world's fourth-largest economy may be Cool Britannia, but it is also the sick man of Europe, trailing behind its Continental neighbors in many measures of quality of life...