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...highest point, the summit of Mount Everest. Weather forced him to retreat, and a careless mistake - removing his gloves to tie his boots - led to frostbite that cost him five fingers. Most kids might have stuck to their Game Boy after that, but on May 23, Tsheri became the youngest person to stand atop Everest. For an encore, the 16-year-old Nepali says, "I am going to concentrate on my studies...
...Though Frenchman Michel Desjoyeaux won the solo Vend?e Globe Round the World yacht race, Britain's tiny (1.57 m tall) Ellen MacArthur earned the loudest cheers. Her gutsy 94-day voyage drew a crowd of 200,000 to the Sables d'Olonne finish line in France to hail the youngest - she's 24 - and the quickest woman ever to complete the race...
...unlikely anyone else with his track record could have snagged the top post at a $2.5 billion company that beams its signal in eight languages to 53 countries ("I don't think TV gets harder than STAR," says chief programmer Steve Askew). Yet Rupert Murdoch chose his youngest son as his lieutenant in Asia, just as giants such as AOL Time Warner, Sony and Disney came rushing in. This office?sensible, austere, pragmatic?speaks not of transformation, but of evolution: from Harvard dropout to committed corporate man, from (sort of) outsider...
...curriculum and methods of teaching shape a child’s thought process, fellow students and classmates influence a child’s social interactions. By passing the school plan, the Cambridge School Committee can have an immediate and direct impact on the city’s youngest citizens...
...have been the youngest Beatle, but from early on he struggled toward the melancholy wisdom of later life. There was gravity even in his love songs. The stately tempos in Something, the plangent guitar in I Need You are not the musical indicators of a lighthearted romantic. So when the Beatles disintegrated in 1970 and the air was full of moist-eyed tributes, it was not surprising that Harrison replied with the resolute detachment he had learned from Eastern religion. "All things must pass," he sang. "All things must pass away...