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  • 80-Year-Old Yuichiro Miura’s Weight-loss Strategy: Climb Mount Everest

    By Akiko Fujita, Mary-Rose Abraham and Ben Schellpfeffer | Newsmakers – Tue, Jun 4, 2013

    Climber Yuichiro Miura’s passion for mountaineering began with a simple desire – to lose weight.

    At 60 years old, Miura was better known as a daredevil skier. He had skied down the world’s seven highest peaks, including Mount Everest, but had no real experience scaling them.

    “After retiring, I was a little bored with nothing to do and got fat,” Miura said. “I thought, if a 60-year-old metabolic fat man, after five years, can get to Mount Everest, that would be very exciting.”

    Miura started small. He climbed a 1,640-foot mountain in Sapporo first, then took on Mount Fuji, six times.

    He trained by walking in Tokyo every day, wearing 11-pound weights on each ankle, and 44 pounds on his shoulder.

    It took 10 years, but Miura successfully reached the summit of Everest at 70 years old with his son Gota, an Olympic skier, by his side. The 2003 trip coincided with the 50th anniversary of Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay’s climb -- they were the first to reach the world’s highest peak.

    “The

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  • New York Aquarium’s Jon Dohlin: ‘It Takes More Than Hurricane Sandy to Get a Walrus to Even Blink’

    By Mary-Rose Abraham, Nick Poppy and David Kovenetsky | Newsmakers – Fri, May 31, 2013

    When superstorm Sandy barreled up the East Coast with wind speeds nearing 100 miles per hour and a 12-foot storm surge, it could almost be called a nonevent for a certain population living just off the Coney Island boardwalk.

    “Let me tell you something. It takes a lot more than Hurricane Sandy to get a walrus to even blink,” said Jon Forrest Dohlin of the New York Aquarium. “All the marine mammals are used to pretty extreme weather.”

    The animals may have weathered the storm just fine, but it took a toll on the aquarium itself. More than a million gallons of seawater poured into the buildings, flooding the basement and exhibit areas with up to 4 feet of water.

    When Sandy hit on the night of Oct. 29, 2012, it knocked out the aquarium’s power and heat, even the emergency generators, all located below ground in the basement. It was earlier this week, seven months later, that the aquarium reopened to the public.

    “To see people lined up outside the aquarium 30 minutes before we opened was

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