Word: tells
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...acre, tree-lined estate compels me to. But at least my relationship with hip-hop goes beyond a fondness for the Fat Boys. Because when I was growing up, everyone's father was a lawyer, and everyone's mother was a real estate agent. And you're going to tell me that that's not real...
...seems that the mountain will always have stories to tell--or at least that there will always be people looking to solve its mysteries. A group of explorers this week announced that they may have discovered the body of climber George Mallory high atop Mount Everest. Mallory died in 1924 in a blizzard on the mountain, and there remains the hotly-debated question of whether he was killed on his way to the summit or on the way down after successfully reaching the top. Mallory and his fellow climber Andrew Irvine might turn out to have been the first...
With a bit more exploration, the mountainzone/"NOVA" climbers may find the camera that will tell us whether Mallory and Irvine actually made it to the top. The documentary of the search will make great TV, and the Web site will probably be overloaded with requests for t-shirts and Everest fleeces. I just hope that Mallory's three famous words are not lost in the hype. We should all remember the importance of taking some challenges "because they're there" and not just in the hope of imagined glory in the outcome...
...come back home. But I remember one year, a really good Mother's Day, when Alicia and her brother and sister made a special dinner in the cellar. They set up a table and had candlelight, and they ordered pizza. Alicia made me get dressed up but didn't tell what for. It was a surprise--it was a really big deal. We had Hostess Cup Cakes for dessert... or Devil Dogs or maybe it was Twinkies. Anyway, they made me gifts--sticks. I got three different painted sticks from my kids. They were even wrapped up in yarn...
...Hence Tintin's mysterious age. He's evidently not a grownup, but not quite a boy either. All the tell-tale signs of puberty, such as facial hair and acne, are strangely absent. His skin is as baby-smooth in "The Blue Lotus" (set in 1930s Shanghai) as it is in his final adventure, "Tintin and The Picaros" (set in 1970s Latin America). Forty years without a single zit or wrinkle! That's as amazing an ability as Superman's X-ray vision...