Word: streamingly
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...Camps 1, 2 and 3, getting used to the altitude and socking away enough equipment--especially oxygen canisters--to make a summit push. They had tried for the summit once but had turned back because of weather. At 29,000 ft., the Everest peak is in the jet stream, which means that winds can exceed 100 m.p.h. and that what looks from sea level like a cottony wisp of cloud is actually a killer storm at the summit. Bad weather played a fatal role in the 1996 climbing season documented in Into Thin...
...safer--and sometimes more fun--than rushing to your destination. New Yorker Mary Farrell, a single mom, says her seven- and 10-year-old sons still remember the rest stop they took on their way to Vermont a couple of years ago. They spent two hours by a stream, throwing rocks and watching caterpillars...
...busy industry gears up to test the weak points all along the border's 1,952 miles. In Tijuana smugglers cram three people into a car trunk and a fourth behind a dashboard, then drive through the customs checkpoint, hoping nobody suspects anything. In Calexico aliens float down a stream choked with toxic chemicals and sewage, betting the border patrol won't jump in to pull them out. In nearby Nogales smugglers tunnel 6 ft. under the border and funnel people through...
...Looking at the man, one cannot help but think he bears a resemblance to Ned Flanders of the Simpsons. Hailing from Wisconsin, his effusive personality catches people's attention as does his interesting twists on popular expressions, such as "That's just water down the stream" instead of "water under the bridge." Don't let the malapropisms fool you, as goaltender J.R. Prestifilippo '00 commented last year, "He's Ned Flanders with attitude...
There is no single memory that comes to mind when I think of myself at Harvard 25 years ago—rather a stream of images, fitful, fleeting, snapshots that capture what historian Erving Goffman would call The Theatricality of Everyday Life...