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...Despite the global problems from Europe to Japan to Argentina, this ain't 1997. "The tinder out there is much less" for a major, contagious currency-style meltdown infecting the U.S. at a time when it's much less able to withstand it than four years ago. "The problems we have seen are in one sense, more domestic than international" - and trust me, senators, we're not, nor will be in any imminent future, Japan...
...until 1997—when the technology for human cloning seemed within reach—that the social and ethical debate was seriously joined. Abortion and euthanasia are also difficult issues, but at this point the detailed positions on them have been thought through, and arguments detailed enough to withstand some questioning can be referred to by shorthand. The ethical debate on cloning isn’t settled—in fact, the opposing camps aren’t even fully formed—and unlike the definition of “blastocyst,” a good ethical argument...
...modern thrill ride gotten too thrilling? Do the new super-speedy, loop-de-loopedy coasters simply exert more stress than the human body is designed to withstand? Maybe, says safety consultant Bill Avery. The question turns out to hinge not so much on velocity as it does on quick changes of direction. "Just because it's bigger and moves at a higher speed doesn't necessarily make it more dangerous," Avery says. "But what's happened is that a lot of the rides have gone to rapid, multi-directional changes on the track, and when you have rapid changes either...
...disproportionately powerful upper body, rubbery legs and flexible ankles. His conditioning is exemplary and his heart rate low. He is stockier than most mountaineers, who tend toward lanky, long muscles. But he possesses an abundance of the one indispensable characteristic of a great mountaineer: mental toughness, the ability to withstand tremendous amounts of cold, discomfort, physical pain, boredom, bad food, insomnia and tedious conversation when you're snowed into a pup tent for a week on a 3-ft.-wide ice shelf at 20,000 ft. (That happened to Erik on Alaska's Denali.) On Everest, toughness is perhaps...
...disproportionately powerful upper body, rubbery legs and flexible ankles. His conditioning is exemplary and his heart rate low. He is stockier than most mountaineers, who tend toward lanky, long muscles. But he possesses an abundance of the one indispensable characteristic of a great mountaineer: mental toughness, the ability to withstand tremendous amounts of cold, discomfort, physical pain, boredom, bad food, insomnia and tedious conversation when you're snowed into a pup tent for a week on a 3-ft.-wide ice shelf at 20,000 ft. (That happened to Erik on Alaska's Denali.) On Everest, toughness is perhaps...