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...Preclimb points to remember: carry plenty of drinking water to ward off dehydration at higher altitudes; pack warm, waterproof gear; take it easy on the throttle, because ascending slowly will help you acclimatize to the thinner air; and, for safety's sake, consider hiring a local guide who knows the route and can read the mountain's moods. With that checklist complete, all you need to do is choose your summit. Here are four of our regional favorites...
...crime-rate increase could more appropriately be assigned to the lazy few who are on state benefits without good cause - benefits provided by the taxes paid by the public, including a vast number of immigrants. It's ironic that when those same moaning scroungers end up in the emergency ward with injuries from a drunken fight, they are cared for by foreign-born nurses and doctors. People need to learn more about the prejudices they so steadfastly harbor. Martin Webb Reading, England Back-Channel Chats Your report "Talking With The Enemy" described secret meetings between U.S. negotiators and Iraqi insurgents...
...alternatives. You don't need a Sherpa's lungs to scale some of the region's best-loved mountains, and you can get to the foot of many of them by public transport. Some even have comfortable trailhead accommodation. Preclimb points to remember: carry plenty of drinking water to ward off dehydration at higher altitudes; pack warm, waterproof gear; take it easy on the throttle, because ascending slowly will help you acclimatize to the thinner air; and, for safety's sake, consider hiring a local guide who knows the route and can read the mountain's moods. With that checklist...
Under a dim bedside lamp in a hospital ward in Landstuhl, Germany, 1st Infantry Division Specialist Shane Salter sobs for his dead sergeant, whose hand he clutched in a morgue in Iraq just five days earlier. At 22, Salter, from Walla Walla, Washington, is so young that he called 29-year-old Sergeant Kyle Childress "Grandpa." "He always took care of me," says Salter, who lost two fingers when his platoon burst into a bombmaker's house near Samarra one night and was met with a torrent of machine-gun fire. As Childress fell, Salter emptied his M-4 rifle...
...recent high-profile examples: Chinese computer giant Lenovo three months ago announced that American Stephen Ward, a senior vice president at IBM, would become its new CEO as part of its acquisition of IBM's PC-manufacturing business. When the deal is complete, Ward, a 26-year IBM veteran, will run Lenovo from his headquarters outside New York City, far from Lenovo's home base in Beijing. In September, Acer, Taiwan's best-known computer maker, tapped Italian Gianfranco Lanci to be its president. Lanci earned the post after spearheading a major turnaround of Acer's business in Western Europe...