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...realized we must be pretty close to the summit. Up above us the snow rounded off into a dome, and we realized that that must be the top. It's not a really sharp summit - the sort you hold your hands around. It's a summit that you can stand on reasonably comfortably. Six or eight people could probably all stand together. A nice summit. I took my oxygen off and took photographs down all the leading ridges, just to make sure I had plenty of evidence that we had actually got to the top. Then I looked across...
...size of Vermont, that meant Rabinowitz needed to enlist the help of local people. Over years of meetings, he managed to convince many of them to stop hunting tigers and the wild game that is the animals' main source of food. At the same time, Rabinowitz didn't stand in the way of some economic development in the valley, realizing that sustained poverty would only exacerbate the threat to the tigers. It's a delicate balance always in risk of being overturned, but while the reserve remains in harmony, the benefits to an uneasy land like Burma are enormous. "Animals...
...school, which ultimately harms both. The Harvard Admissions Office depends on accurate information from students, high schools, teachers, and others to select the incoming class. Without accurate disciplinary information, the Admissions Office is less able to choose the best candidates for admission. High schools, however, may perceive that they stand to gain from withholding disciplinary information. Not only do high schools gain in reputation by sending a student to Harvard, but they face tremendous pressure from parents to help their children gain admission to top universities. In the long run, however, such a policy will prove to be harmful...
...Tuesday, Huckabee's South Carolina chairman, the state's former governor, David Beasley, flew north to stand behind Huckabee when he celebrated his third-place finish in New Hampshire. In an interview afterward, Beasley argued that Huckabee could be an unstoppable force, marrying both an insurgent appeal and an establishment tie to the state as a fellow southern governor. "McCain will get a small bump," Beasley said of the Arizona Senator's New Hampshire victory. But he predicted that it would not be enough. In 2000, Beasley backed another southern governor, George W. Bush, in a triumph over McCain. Eight...
...really don't. I know that maybe it's a convenience to try understand what certain people might be thinking about an election but I really try to look at the electorate as people as individually as I can imagine and then try to let them know where I stand, what I do, and give them a chance make their own assessment about me. Everyone of us is individual. We don't fit into categories... One of the great things about America is our individuality. So I'm always a little skeptical of any of those categories but obviously...