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...products, and Wall Street loves Lafley for increasing operating income and turbocharging the growth of brands like Iams pet food (another acquisition). On the other hand, P&G has never absorbed a company as large as Gillette, with its 30,000 employees, and the price it's paying is steep. "We are skeptical that simply going from $55 billion to $65 billion in revenues really changes all that much," wrote J.P. Morgan analyst John Faucher in a note to investors last week. We'll know when the honeymoon ends. --With reporting by David Bjerklie, Barbara Kiviat and Dody Tsiantar...
Though only one person has been found dead from an avalanche a week ago near Park City, Utah, 16 people have been killed in avalanches in the U.S. this season, almost double the toll at the same time last year. Ski resorts routinely blast problem snow from steep slopes. But as more skiers and snowmobilers head for the backcountry, where there is no organized avalanche control, attention is shifting to new self-rescue techniques...
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...section of the range was then known, less than a third has been swallowed by farming and suburbia; most of it today lies in the Grose Wilderness - an area protected as part of the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area which covers more than a million hectares of steep gorges, waterfalls, swamps and sandstone escarpments that, in the late afternoon sun, glow the color of warm toffee. From this vantage point, looking west to flat-topped Mount Tomah, the first peak Caley reached, eucalypt-green ridges roll away like swell on an uneasy sea. The leaves of huge gums shimmer...
...Caley's plan was always to head straight for the hill now known as Mount Tomah. But the country wouldn't let him, continually pushing him along spurs, forcing him into steep gullies and bringing him to the edge of ha-has, the dreaded chasms that on several occasions seemed to open at the party's feet. Often they had to retrace their weary steps. The bush remains as trackless today as it was then, a labyrinth of wood and rock. Few know its secret corners and paths as do modern explorers like Brown, Andy Macqueen and Wyn Jones. Macqueen...