Word: siting
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...Krakauer's best-selling account of a 1996 disaster on the mountain, Into Thin Air. Few of us can get enough of the myth and stories of the often painful reality surrounding the world's tallest mountain. The hype has even extended to the Web, where the site everest.mountainzone.com is sponsoring the expedition and selling "Mallory/Irvine" commemorative t-shirts. It's all a little surreal...
...wonder whether the hype surrounding Everest has been ultimately detrimental to the original purpose of taking the climbing challenge as articulated so eloquently by Mallory. The mountainzone Web site makes for great reading as the current climbers dispatch their latest findings, but there is a commercial quality to it which is disturbing. Those of us interested in the stories of those who have attempted (successfully or unsuccessfully) to climb Everest are fascinated by the idea of the physical and mental strength required to attempt the summit...
With a bit more exploration, the mountainzone/"NOVA" climbers may find the camera that will tell us whether Mallory and Irvine actually made it to the top. The documentary of the search will make great TV, and the Web site will probably be overloaded with requests for t-shirts and Everest fleeces. I just hope that Mallory's three famous words are not lost in the hype. We should all remember the importance of taking some challenges "because they're there" and not just in the hope of imagined glory in the outcome...
With thoughts of a jobless, impoverished, post-graduation future bearing down, one senior girl (who wishes to remain nameless) decided to test how far the Harvard name could take her. Last month, she put her used underwear up for sale on Ebay.com, a virtual auction Web site. Knowing that Ebay sales require creative marketing ploys, she coaxed potential buyers with "sexy, red-head, Harvard coed's panties being sold to the highest bidder." Offers came in from across the country. Although the senior earned $7 from the sale, she now believes--given the response she received--that she may have...
...have not found a stronger form of propaganda than a 16-year-old, grainy video that has been accused of such inaccuracies. But according to Planned Parenthood, the video is "still wildly popular among anti-abortion zealots" and is shown worldwide to women considering abortions. There is a Web site devoted to it (www.silentscream.org) that offers clips from the video for all to download...