Fran Healy, Mets announcer and former Giants catcher (about the possibility of putting a dome on Candlestick): It would be like putting lipstick on a pig.

I got five Georgia homes where I rest my Georgia bones, Come anywhere on my land and I'll aim at your Georgia dome.

But she had been reading deeply of the Alps, and in all the histories of mountain exploits which she had read, of climbs up vertical cracks in sheer walls of rocks, balancings upon ridges sharp as a knife edge, crawlings over smooth slabs with nowhere to rest the feet or hands, it was the ice-slope which had most kindled her imagination.

The last time she cozied up for a photograph alongside teen-dream Justin Bieber, Kim Kardashian learned just how serious Biebermania could get when she received a rash of death threats.