Altitude Sickness
Altitude sickness is a general term encompassing several disorders that occur high altitudes. High altitude is greater than 8,000 feet; medium altitude is between 5,000 and 8,000 fee...
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Mountaineering legend Sir Edmund Hillary, best known for conquering Mount Everest, is in a New Zealand hospital after a fall, media reported Tuesday.Hillary, 87, who along with sherpa Tenzing Norga...
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U.S. officials say they can't detect an increase in Bolivia's coca crop under the country's coca-promoting President Evo Morales _ but say they doubt their own figures.A study released Wednesday by...
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Mountaineering legend Sir Edmund Hillary, best known for conquering Mount Everest, is in a New Zealand hospital after a fall, media reported Tuesday.Hillary, 87, who along with sherpa Tenzing Norga...
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President Alvaro Uribe is taking the war on drugs to the supermarket, prohibiting the sale of products made from the coca plant.With the help of more than $600 million a year in U.S. aid, Uribe has...
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Soybean prices rose to the highest level in nine years on Friday amid expectations that growing Chinese demand for beans could rapidly deplete global stockpiles.Elsewhere, energy prices moved broad...
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After taking off shoes, pulling change out of pockets and going through security checkpoints, passengers now can roll up their sleeves and get a flu shot at gateside kiosks and health stations in s...
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Fifty years later, the man who first stood on the roof of the world lamented how Mount Everest had changed since his historic summit."It is hardly mountaineering; more like a conducted tour," Sir E...
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For visitors to Hawaii looking for something they can't see from the beach or the golf course, an unconventional museum and planetarium near the base of massive Mauna Kea volcano offers the story o...
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Kyoto-born running phenomenon Toshiko D'Elia, who has
consistently placed at or near the top of her age group in U.S. and
world competitions for the past 30 years, says the secret to her
rem...
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Wellington (dpa) - Sir Edmund Hillary was honoured throughout the
world as the first man, with Sherpa Tenzing Norgay, to climb Mount
Everest, the world's highest peak at 8,8...
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Altitude Sickness
Climbing legend Hillary in hospital
