Word: trek
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What can the attraction be? It is, after all, a three-day uphill trek to the foot of the final peak, and then a predawn slog of two practically vertical miles to the top. On the way, walkers are alternately roasted by the tropical sun and chilled by low alpine temperatures; they sleep in unheated, unlighted huts, wash in ice-cold water and, after five days, emerge from the mountain dirty, haggard and exhausted. "Maybe the only satisfaction comes from looking back on it afterward," suggests climber Matt Claman, 29, a lawyer from Juneau...
Something similar might be said of Hollywood this summer -- the so-called summer of the sequels. Between now and August, moviegoers will be offered up seconds of Ghostbusters and Lethal Weapon, a third Karate Kid, fifths of Star Trek and A Nightmare on Elm Street, an eighth Friday the 13th and, for the 17th time around, James Bond, in Licensed to Kill...
...estimated 30,000 students demanding democracy and the legalization of their newly formed independent student union poured out of 40 Beijing colleges to take part in the ten-hour trek from their campuses to Tiananmen Square, a short distance from Zhongnanhai, where China's leaders live and work. Again tens of thousands of workers joined them, shouting encouragement. One worker held up a sign in crude English letters: I LOVE YOU. A waitress scribbled a message on a piece of paper and pasted it on the window of a bus. "You must be exhausted, students," it read...
While the 58-year-old Faculty Club is closed this summer for renovations, professors and other Harvard officials looking for the club's traditional cuisine will have to trek to the student dining hall...
...will Bok make the trek to St. Paul...