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What are people so afraid of? Sure, MARION (SUGE) KNIGHT, man-mountain CEO of Death Row Records, was released from an Oregon prison last week after serving five years for probation violation. But--discounting incidents in which Knight is alleged to have dangled rapper Vanilla Ice from a 15th-floor balcony and forced a record promoter to drink his urine--could a man nicknamed Sugar Bear really be so scary? Proving he wasn't blinded by rage, Knight told reporters, "The first thing I did was fire me up a nice cigar." Then he hit the Dairy Queen...
...tall Himalayan peak. Wight's parents charged negligence and sued Ohio State for $21 million in damages. Although the judge dismissed the case and exonerated Thompson, the experience cast a pall over his high-altitude odysseys. "I don't understand," he says, "why anyone would want to climb a mountain...
...current book is a slim 26 pages and targets Peterman's best customers from the good old days. It boasts the same quirky prose (now written by creative director Bill McCullam) and a mixture of old and new merchandise that ranges from an Ecuadorian mountain shirt ($30) to a sidecar motorcycle with "BMW bloodlines...
...pieces of the wrecked ships of later Dutch and Portuguese visitors. Although he may be forgotten, Zheng He would recognize much in Galle's narrow alleys where gem hustlers still ply their trade as they did almost 600 years ago. According to the admiral's chronicler Ma Huan, inland mountain streams flushed gems to the surface after heavy rains, a bounty of "red rubies, blue sapphires, yellow oriental topaz and other gems," he wrote. "There is a saying that the precious stones are the crystallized tears of Buddha...
...lived in and around cities for my entire life. I grew up 30 minutes from downtown Manhattan, and I love the view, but it never meant too much to me. Maybe I took it for granted. But, all the same, resplendent sunsets, perfect night skies, and picturesque mountain peaks never quite did it for me. I mean, they’re pretty—I get that—and I like to look at them, but no view had ever really emotionally impacted me. Until this summer...