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...have to climb a steep and narrow road, past the moonshiners' shacks and dense rhododendrons and through the iron gates to get to the house on the mountaintop that Ruth Graham built after her husband Billy became too famous to live anywhere else. By 1954, after she caught her children charging tourists a nickel to take a picture of their old house and noticed Billy crawling across the floor of his study to keep people outside from catching a glimpse of him, she knew it was time to move...
...proctees are successful businessmen and lawyers, with wives and children, who must be sufficiently well-off to afford the steep price Harvard charges for two months at its summer school...
...volcano was to erupt on Guadeloupe; off he went to tempt death and came back with the spectacular documentary La Soufrière. On the Amazon epic Fitzcarraldo, he took his crew hundreds of miles from the nearest city and had them lug a 320-ton riverboat overland and up steep hills. He found a suitably lush location on the Amazon and ran into the longest dry spell in the region's history. "I shouldn't make movies anymore," he said in Les Blank's documentary Burden of Dreams. "I should go to a lunatic asylum. This is not what...
...typing on a glass screen. Jobs says it's actually easier to type fast on an iPhone than on a Blackberry, but the test will be whether millions of fingers - fat, flat and stumpy- can navigate the screen as smoothly as veteran techies. If the learning curve proves too steep for early adopters, the early buzz might shift slightly, tempering the enthusiasm of those waiting out the first model's release...
...TIME: Growing up you had a coach, Taras ("Stink") Brown, who wouldn't let you play pickup games with your friends. Instead, he insisted that you do dribbling drills, and sprint up a steep hill near your DC-area home. How did you feel about that...