"Machismo got a bad name starting with the feminist movement, where it was used to label male behavior that women found offensive," the novelist Robert B. Parker once told Amanda Smith in a Publisher'...
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Meran/Zermatt, Switzerland (dpa) - At 3,000 metres above sea
level, the air in the Alps is low on oxygen and in winter much colder
than below in the valleys.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc Tuesday
launched an aluminum-clad laptop just three-quarters of an inch
thick, seeking to bring a new computer to market with the same
cachet as its iPod and iP...
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The Colorado Rockies hope a one-mile increase in altitude will make a world of difference. The Boston Red Sox are on a high, and it's not just because of their 2-0 World Series lead.After filtering...
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The body of a top female mountain climber who has been missing for seven months was found on a remote peak in northern China, her family said Monday.Christine Boskoff and her climbing partner faile...
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Bluetooth headsets, the tiny earpieces that make people look like they're talking into thin air when they're on their cell phones, have been a success story despite often being maddeningly difficul...
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BEIJING, Oct 29 (Reuters) - The world's second highest
airport, in China's southwestern province of Sichuan, will open
next May after a successful trial flight over the weekend, the
country's avia...
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Jan 13 (Reuters) - Developers are planning a series of major
tourism projects across the Alps, even as many resorts worry about
a lack of snow cover. Here are some recent and planned developments:...
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KATHMANDU, Jan 16 (Reuters) - Nepal plans to name an
airport in the remote Everest region after pioneering climbers
Sir Edmund Hillary, who died last week, and Tenzing Norgay
Sherpa, a minister sa...
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Robert B. Parker
Sleeping in thin air high up in the Alps
