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...Trekkers, though, are scrupulously monitored. Much of Sikkim is forbidden to foreigners, and access to the rest is governed by permits. Our trek was a seven-day slog toward the Goecha La plateau to see the sun rise on the world's third highest mountain: the mighty, 8,586-meter Kanchenjunga. Apart from a guide, it required three permits. But even if it wasn't illegal, wandering alone is a brow-furrowing prospect, for trails quickly extend beyond the reach of telephones. Dialing air rescue in emergencies is not an option, which is why, by the time we started, staff...
...driver and guide to take us cross-country from the capital, Ulan Bator, to the northwestern Lake Hovsgol in a Swiss Alpine-like region of reindeer herders near the Russian border. Though the trip is scheduled for two days, it takes four to grind over dried-out riverbeds and slog through mud bogs between hills that roll like waves and crest into craggy rock. The land is so empty at times that a mere stand of trees is welcome relief...
Even though Ben Affleck has donned Daredevil's horns, directors are finding it a slog to get A-list stars to play comic-book crusaders...
...driver and guide to take us cross-country from the capital, Ulan Bator, to the northwestern Lake Hovsgol in a Swiss Alpine--like region of reindeer herders near the Russian border. Though the trip is scheduled for two days, it takes four to grind over dried-out riverbeds and slog through mud bogs between hills that roll like waves and crest into craggy rock. The land is so empty at times that a mere stand of trees is welcome relief...
...Autonomy, which recently won a contract initially worth about $3 million to provide the software for information collection, analysis and routing for the 22 agencies that fall under the new Department of Homeland Security (DHS). But few other contracts have been signed thus far, as the feds slog through the swampy process of budgeting, appropriating and procuring. "We've all been waiting for the wheelbarrows of money to show up," says Leonard Pomata, president of the government division of webMethods, based in Fairfax, Va. "Aside from the emergency funding that has been spent on guards and gates and guns...there...