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Bent like an arthritic thumb high above the antarctic ice cap, the mountain's uppermost point was so small and precarious that it could accommodate only one person at a time. So I shivered on a ledge in the subzero breeze and waited for my partners, first Alex and then Conrad, to climb the final 20 ft. to the summit. We'd been on the move for 14 hours. My back hurt, and I had lost all feeling in my toes. But as my eyes wandered across the frozen vastness of Queen Maud Land, a sense of profound contentment radiated...
...beauty of the living world I was trying to save," she wrote in a letter to a friend in 1962, "has always been uppermost in my mind--that, and anger at the senseless, brutish things that were being done. I have felt bound by a solemn obligation to do what I could--if I didn't at least try I could never be happy again in nature. But now I can believe that I have at least helped a little. It would be unrealistic to believe one book could bring a complete change...
Republican Congressional Committee, indicating a $25,000 donation, nobody was startled. The surprise may come as further Microsoft contributions are tallied in coming months. Sources tell TIME that the committee's top officials have asked the software giant for $1 million--which, if delivered, would place it among the uppermost donors to either party. A committee spokeswoman wouldn't confirm the amount but said it was expected that Microsoft would give "a very considerable amount" beyond the table...
Sergey Kudrin and Alexander Ivanov went home tired but happy last night, having won all four of their matches to tie for first place in the tournament's uppermost division and splitting a cash prize...
Cash prizes were awarded to top players in all three levels. The top prize in the uppermost level was $450; in the middle level, $200, and in the lower level $125. The total amount of prizes awarded...