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Even under the best of conditions, scaling a mountain like Everest is an act of near madness. Standing on top of the peak is roughly equivalent to stopping a passenger jet in mid-flight and climbing out onto the wing. The altitude is the same, the 40[degrees]F- below-zero temperature is the same, and, most disturbingly, the lung-shredding, brain-addling atmosphere--barely one-third the pressure of sea-level air--is the same. In the 44 years since New Zealander Edmund Hillary and a Sherpa climber, Tenzing Norgay, first scaled the peak, more than 700 people have...
...populist wing of the Democratic Party made two vigorous attacks on the guest-worker provision in the Senate bill, succeeding in cutting in half the annual allotment of workers. The anxieties of these Democrats are driven in part by the fact that the main area of expansion in the proposed bill would be for guest workers outside agriculture--in the service sector, in construction, in factories. By law, any guest-worker position has to be offered to Americans first, but the fear is that a flood of guest workers would drive down salaries in those industries, as they already have...
...rich Venezuela's left-wing President, Hugo Chavez, is the shock jock of international politics - as he demonstrated in the U.N. General Assembly last year, when he referred to President George W. Bush as "the devil." To complement his anti-U.S. tirades, he has created a new alternative Latin American television network, Telesur - and has left free-speech advocates wringing their hands as he prepares to revoke the license of one of Venezuela's largest and most outspoken opposition networks, RCTV...
...European colonialism. It's hardly unusual that Chavez would want to promote such an anti-imperialist story - nor is it surprising that the man who will make the film is African-American Hollywood star and civil rights activist Danny Glover, a close friend of Chavez and of former left-wing Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide (who was overthrown and forced into exile in South Africa three years...
...Aristide, who blames the U.S. for his downfall, likens his own story to that of Toussaint, who was later betrayed and died in France in 1803. But Glover insisted this week that Toussaint, for which he has been pursuing production funding for almost 10 years, won't be left-wing revisionism but rather a critical piece of the hemisphere's past that has been "essentially wiped out of our historic memory...