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  • May 2008

    • NARAL Endorses Obama; Clinton Camp 'Surprised'

      Talking Points Memo  |  May 14, 08 3:46 PM CDT

      NARAL Endorses Obama; Clinton Camp 'Surprised'

      (Newser) - NARAL tapped Barack Obama today, an endorsement that a top Hillary Clinton aide called “surprising.” The abortion-rights group said Obama is the candidate “we believe will secure the Democratic nomination”—and said it hoped to start healing a rift between black voters and white female activists that the primary fight has opened, Talking Points Memo reports. More »

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      Barack Obama  • endorsement  • abortion rights  • Edmund Hillary  • NARAL

  • January 2008

    • New Zealand Pays Homage to Heroic Hillary

      New Zealand Herald  |  Jan 22, 08 10:58 AM CST

      New Zealand Pays Homage to Heroic Hillary

      (Newser) - New Zealand paid tribute to its most famous native son today as throngs lined the streets of Auckland for the state funeral of Sir Edmund Hillary , the New Zealand Herald reports. The prime minister led the tributes. "Sir Ed described himself as a person of modest abilities," said Helen Clark. "In reality he was a colossus, he was our hero." More »

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      obituary  • New Zealand  • Mount Everest  • Edmund Hillary

    • Mountain of Litter Spoiling Everest Majesty

      Independent (UK)  |  Jan 12, 08 6:20 PM CST

      Mountain of Litter Spoiling Everest Majesty

      (Newser) - Mount Everest remains an irresistable lure for hundreds of climbers every year—and it shows in a bad way. In the wake of Edmund Hillary's death, the Independent surveys the landscape of the world's highest mountain and finds it littered with climbers' trash. It's a matter of logistics, experts say. It's simply not easy to schlep home empty oxygen containers and the like from 29,000 feet. More »

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      pollution  • trash  • Mount Everest  • Edmund Hillary  • climbing

    • Everest's Hillary Dies at 88

      Bloomberg  |  Jan 10, 08 5:17 PM CST

      Everest's Hillary Dies at 88

      (Newser) - Edmund Hillary, the first person to scale Mount Everest, has died at age 88, Bloomberg reports. Hillary scaled the world's highest mountain in 1953, gaining renown as one of the great adventurers in the 20th century. Despite his fame, Hillary remained modest about his Everest achievement and those that followed, and spent much of his life helping to improve living conditions of the Sherpa mountain people of Nepal. More »

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      obituary  • Mount Everest  • Edmund Hillary

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