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...Pakistan Expedition Takes Dizzying Toll In one of the deadliest episodes in mountaineering history, 11 climbers died on K2, the world's second highest peak. Falling ice severed their ropes, killing several and forcing others to either continue their descent without assistance or wait for rescue in perilous conditions. Both decisions proved fateful. With its 28,250-ft. (8,600 m) summit, steep ascent routes and rough weather, K2 is often considered the world's toughest climb...
...home, though, the Met's reputation has been taking some serious knocks. Most immediately, there's a real and disturbing rise in knife crime, especially among London's young. Last year, 27 London teenagers were murdered, many of them by fellow teens. This year the teen death toll from violence has already hit 21. The sense of danger on the streets comes at the same time as Commissioner Blair faces questions about his conduct. On July 20, he awoke to news reports about a Scotland Yard contract awarded to a technology company helmed by one of his friends. Blair said...
...dating game by launching two new media portals. VIOO is a kind of online women's magazine, while PEEXME is a social networking site for adolescents. The idea is to use Meetic to cross-promote the new sites, hopefully snaring some of the heavy traffic that flows through it toll-free...
...reason for the higher risk could be that those who had the cognitive protection and social benefits of a relationship but lost them may be worse off than those who never enjoyed those benefits at all; or perhaps the emotional toll of losing a close partner damages cognitive functions in a way that puts these people at greater risk for dementia and Alzheimer's down the line. Either way, says Hakansson, the results suggest that "if you are looking for interventions to prevent Alzheimer's, one way may be to identify people who have been divorced or widowed...
...demanding immediate attention. Yet last week all Japan seemed to be hanging on the phone to hear an infant shriek. The sound comes from a baby panda born June 1 at Tokyo's Ueno Zoo. Its plaintive cries were recorded, and can be heard by those dialing a special toll number. Word of the hot line caused pandemonium, and as many as 200,000 calls a day were logged. Zoo officials hope the baby's 226-lb. mother has become nimbler since last year, when she accidentally crushed her firstborn to death...