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...guy’s alive, he’s talking to you, you can help him,” he said. Osborne, an avid mountain climber, skiier and snowboarder, said that he spent the last two years working four jobs to finance the $25,000 expedition and training for it. Osborne was climbing to raise funds for Naomi House, a children’s hospice in his native England.“Every penny I raised went to the charity. Not one single cent of the expedition came from donations,” Osborne said.The expedition was Osborne?...

Author: By Katherine M. Gray, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cabot Tutor Saves Man On Everest | 6/5/2006 | See Source »

...says. “If he hadn’t been strongly positive and supportive, I’m not sure what would’ve worked in the 1950s.”After a lackluster job with Education Testing Services, the government concentrator decided further training might provide her with more options and “economics looked interesting.”However, a nearby economics department turned Whitman away. “Princeton wouldn’t have me, because I was the wrong sex,” she says...

Author: By Lulu Zhou, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Working Whitman Breaks Ground | 6/3/2006 | See Source »

...reggae to the world beyond Jamaica, scoring a Top 10 single in both the U.S. and England with his 1968 song Israelites; of an apparent heart attack in Surrey, England. Before most people had heard of Bob Marley, Dekker chronicled Jamaican street life in songs like Rude Boy Train; 007 (Shanty Town), which appeared on the sound track to the film The Harder They Come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 5/29/2006 | See Source »

...million Estimated amount the U.S. has spent to recruit and train replacements for troops discharged under the policy from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Numbers: Jun. 5, 2006 | 5/28/2006 | See Source »

...expenses, many teams don't even own their boats; they share them. The California Dragon Boat Association, for example, has a complicated practice schedule to allow more than 20 crews, including the City College of San Francisco and the Rainbow Koi, a team of gay and lesbian paddlers, to train on San Francisco's Lake Merced, sharing just eight boats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Racing the Dragon | 5/28/2006 | See Source »

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