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...infant son to an air-raid shelter to avoid Allied bombs. In the tough economic times after the war's end, the surrounding Alps became Brabeck's playground. By age 10, he was climbing with ropes. As a teenager, he took off for hiking trips with his friend Hans Thomassen, with little more than a tarp and his mother's sandwiches. She recalls that "he was always an adventurer, just like his father"--a salesman for an oil company. Indeed, along with mountaineering, Brabeck today enjoys glacier hopping in a Piper plane with high wings and retractable skis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nestle's Quick | 11/14/2007 | See Source »

...Pakistan with a group of friends to climb Tirich Mir, the highest peak in the Hindu Kush. They drove through Turkey and Afghanistan in a secondhand van and slept in tents their mothers had sewn. The expedition turned into a disaster. In bad weather two of the team, including Thomassen, fell off an ice wall to their deaths. Brabeck survived because he had returned to base camp the day before the tragedy: there had been only enough food for two, and he lost the poker game that had decided which of the three would turn back. The experience changed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nestle's Quick | 11/14/2007 | See Source »

...Electrochemistry, a highly technical Swiss periodical, the paper was too sketchy to be truly enlightening. Pons has argued repeatedly that his critics who are getting negative results do not know how to run the experiment, but he does not show them precisely what they are doing wrong. Declares Keith Thomassen, a physicist who heads one of the fusion-research programs at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory: "The hard, uncompromising way in which we do our business is that when you make a claim, you present the facts on which you base that claim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fusion Illusion? | 5/8/1989 | See Source »

...THOMASSEN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 8, 1932 | 8/8/1932 | See Source »

...Manhattan, Amalia Sorenson, Norwegian waitress, and Thomas Thomassen, Norwegian laborer, sought a marriage license. Asked to swear to the truth of their application, they refused, said that they are members of the Salem Scandinavian Pentecostal Assembly in Brooklyn which bans oaths. Said Amalia Sorenson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Matches | 4/27/1931 | See Source »

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