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...This hasn't escaped the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT), which held a "Samui summit" last month where Cabinet ministers and TAT officials discussed how best to solve environmental and image problems. "Everyone has been told to go away and get a list of ideas together," a spokesman said. Not that the carnival can be considered a model for recovery. They may be targeting families, and there is indeed a decrease in the dreadlocked human detritus that normally washes up after full-moon ecstasy parties on nearby Koh Phangan. But Koh Samui's traditional customers may be hard to ditch...
...save the French fry from culinary oblivion, drastic changes are in the works. "To say they are panicking out in Idaho is a gross understatement," says Joseph Hotchkiss, chairman of Cornell University's Department of Food Sciences. Potato growers and the processing companies that make fries held a summit in July to figure out how to rev up potato sales. Manufacturers were reluctant to reveal what they have in the pipeline, but growers want to aggressively promote a more healthful potato. No wonder. The price of a 100lb. bag of russets has dropped to $2 from $8 a year...
Dick Bass, a Texan who salts his speech with darlin' and dadgum, was 51 years old and clueless about expedition climbing when he decided to summit Mount McKinley in 1981. Bass, the owner of Snowbird Ski and Summer Resort in Utah, had no idea McKinley was among the hardest U.S. climbs. He made the decision to brave the elements after a particularly tough employee pronounced that he would never cut it on the mountain. Bass vowed to prove her wrong. "I didn't even know how to put a tent up," he says. But off he trudged, defiantly...
...sled. At the final ascent, the amused Snowbird guide sentenced him to lead rope--the tiring position that carves out the group's path. Bass relished the challenge, and as he spied the wide ribbon of snow upon the mountain's ridge, he untethered himself, rushed the summit and yodeled a Tarzan yell. "I was told all the way I wasn't gonna make it," he says. "Shoot, I walked everyone to the ground." Bounding down the mountain afterward, disregarding his aching legs, Bass resolved to climb the highest point on each continent. Four years later, he became the first...
...Bound's wilderness-trip enrollees and an increasing number of guide-service clients. "They want to experience as much as they can before they check out," says Lou Whittaker, 74, a guide on Washington's Mount Rainier for a half-century. But couch potatoes beware. To succeed at the summit, you must be cautious, alert and in phenomenal shape; otherwise, you put yourself at high risk (see sidebar...