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Start the Presses: Reaching the summit of achievement
Sometimes, just sometimes, you run across people who refuse to let anything stop them. Take, for instance, Paul Fejtek and his wife Denise. The two recently climbed Mt. Everest despite the fact that Paul has full use of only one hand. The 1988 Hoover...Tags: Parkinson's Disease, Yosemite National Park, Frostbite, Antarctica, Mountaineering
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Thursday's Calendar
THURSDAY Ladies Boutique The American Legion Auxiliary hosts a Ladies Boutique to benefit veteran and community programs. The event is from 4 to 8 p.m. at the American Legion Post, 215 E. 15th St., Newport Beach. Admission costs $5. Free Corkage...
Tags: Concerts, Judaism, Religion and Belief, Tony Bennett, Music
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Playing chutes and ladders in the trees
Twenty feet up the bare trunk of a yellow pine, Casey Payne crouches on a narrow wooden platform. She's temporarily frozen. Across the 15-foot chasm that separates them, Roger Laplante calls out from a neighboring tree in a teasing tone, "Just so you...
Tags: Smithfield, Ceremonies, Busch Gardens Orlando, Culture, Arts and Culture
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This Workout has a Cult-Like Following!
WDBJ-TV Anchor/ReporterIt's described as having a "cult-like" following. It gets people out of bed sometimes at 5 in the morning and some say it's changed their life. "It's hard and everyday I'm like why am I doing this to myself?" said Karen Eliades who's been coming...Tags: CrossFit, Inc., Lynchburg (Lynchburg, Virginia), Healthy Diet
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Reaching new heights safely
Ian Yarmus can spot them when he goes down to his favorite indoor climbing gym in Rockville or when he travels to Seneca Rocks in West Virginia, the place after which he named his now 3--year-old daughter. "I remember being 100 feet up [at Seneca], and...Tags: Rockville (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania), Health, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Montgomery County (Virginia), Middletown
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Japanese Woman Breaks Own Record as Oldest to Scale Everest
KTLA NewsTHE HIMALAYAS, NEPAL - At 73, Tamae Watanabe is the oldest woman to scale the summit of Mount Everest... again. The last time she set the record, she was 63. She reached the top of the world's highest peak with four other team members morning after an...Tags: Nepal, Mountaineering
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Fatal Climbing Fall on Mt. McKinley
A man climbing the West Buttress route of Denali fell to his death Friday while attempting to retrieve a backpack, according to a Talkeetna Ranger Station public information officer. Maureen McLaughlin says at about 4:30 p.m. Denali National Park and...
Tags: National Parks, Mountaineering
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What if your kids can't keep up?
Early on, when my kids were young, I had a two-seat sport stroller that I could push them in while I went running. I could also tow them in it behind my bike. It was great, until my daughter realized she could whale the tar out of her older brother and...
Tags: Health, Canoeing and Kayaking, Hospitals and Clinics, Obesity, Overweight
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Leader for architecture and design firm employs holistic philosophy to foster clients' creativity, comfort
Special to the TribuneWalking into a new corporate space her team designed in River North for Whole Foods Market Inc., Nila Leiserowitz pointed out a long lunch table visible from the front entrance instead of hidden in a back room. The 36,000-square-foot space,...Tags: Sony Corp., Frostbite, Interior Design, Philosophy, Religion and Belief
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FactFinder12: Who are the Mountaineers?
KWCH 12 Eyewitness SportsNow that West Virginia University has joined the Big 12, factFinder 12 looks at the school, its athletics and its history. The School Location: Morgantown, West Virginia Enrollment: 29,617 (22,711 Undergraduates) Founded: 1867 Colors: Old Gold and Blue...Tags: Defense, Football, College Football, Hewlett-Packard Co., Big 12 Conference
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Staff's top 10 picks: Weekend of May 3
The top five things to do this week Fore! fun It's a round of golf and laughs with Old Opera House's production of "The Fox on the Fairway," opening Friday. At a posh country club, bad golf and improprieties abound. 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays; 2:...
Tags: Auction Service, Jazz (genre), Concerts, Wars and Interventions, Animals
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Lincoln Hall dies at 56; climber survived Mt. Everest ordeal
Left for dead near the summit of Mt. Everest, Australian adventurer Lincoln Hall survived the night alone, without supplies, in temperatures well below zero. And then he got lucky. As dawn broke, one of the last teams of climbers to ascend the mountain...
Tags: Health, People (magazine), Physical Fitness and Exercise, Australia, Mesothelioma
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