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...hotel, an hour before the recent G.O.P. primary debate, Crist is still radiating the same beach-cheerful disposition, not to mention the George Hamilton suntan, that won over Sunshine State voters when he took office last January. Sipping coffee in a dark blue suit that seems to brighten his thick white hair, he's savoring what he's convinced are the fruits of one his earliest but most controversial decisions - leading the drive to push Florida's primary election up from March to Jan. 29. "I believe without a doubt it was worth it," Crist tells TIME...
...decide what you're going to do. Aviation safety experts, even the most jaded ones, count the rows to their nearest exits whenever they sit down on a plane. They know that their brain will not work well under extreme duress, and their eyes will not see well in thick smoke, so they need to have a sense of their best escape routes before anything goes wrong...
...shoestring operation - we were pretty impoverished and most of our equipment was inadequate. For instance, I had a pair of boots that were very primitive and had rubber soles on them, and they were much too small for me so I could only wear about one pair of thick socks and one pair of thin socks, which really was completely inadequate for climbing at high altitude in the Himalayas. Even though I had pretty good resistance to cold in my feet, that first trip I definitely had cold feet. But we still made a lot of new summits...
...lounge for commercial flights from Amman, Jordan, into Baghdad is made up almost entirely of men, sizes XL through XXXL. Most wear baseball caps; all have long faces, sitting silently. When boarding is announced they arise, and like buffaloes stampeding in soft slippers across tiled floors, shuffle into one thick, single-file line...
...Thick, 15-foot high blast walls are everywhere. Some form extended contiguous barriers, like paranoid rat mazes of concrete-and-sky tunnels. Some connect to nothingness, sitting at odd angles, left littering the highways, neighborhood streets and alleyways, forgotten pieces of drab, tan cityscape. Except for the helicopters thumping just above the low skyline, views in Baghdad are therefore always partly obscured...