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...never made it to the top—instead, he saved a man’s life. It was 7 a.m. on the morning of May 26, and Osborne and his team had been climbing for over seven hours since the night before. They were in their tenth week on Mount Everest, and it was their third attempt at reaching the summit. With the summit close at hand, the team saw a man shivering uncontrollably from the bitter cold and sitting three feet from a 10,000 foot precipice. The man, delusional from lack of oxygen, was pulling...
...women could come and visit and they had to be signed in and signed out,” Breed says. “Consequently, people looked forward to living off campus so they wouldn’t have those rules to contend with.”...AND MATHER MAKES TENThe vision that Pusey articulated in 1956 resulted in construction that allowed the University to increase its enrollment from roughly 1,150 per class in the mid-fifties to about 1,600 two decade later. In 1959, the University opened Quincy House, the first House built since the original seven river...
...stent installed. Steinard, too rich for Medicaid and too poor for insurance, certainly didn't have the $60,000 he would have had to pay back home. So he contacted PlanetHospital, a Malibu, Calif., medical-tourism agency, and learned he could get it done for about a tenth as much at Max Healthcare's Devki Devi Heart & Vascular Institute...
...University announced Wednesday that Jorge I. Domínguez, a scholar of Latin America, will serve as its first vice provost for international affairs. Currently in his tenth year as director of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs—the largest international research center in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences—Domínguez will bring a wealth of administrative and academic experience to his post. He has written extensively on international and domestic politics in Latin America and worked as a series editor for PBS program “Crisis in Central America...
...them load computers onto export containers," says Dan Fuller, EPC's president. EPC "demanufactures" 150 tons of equipment a month for about $10 per computer. Workers take apart monitors by hand, sending the leaded glass tubing to a Missouri smelting operation. A hulking baler crunches plastic hardware to a tenth its size, and metals are extracted and sold...