Oil executives are warning that consumers may be looking at a longer, harder stretch of expensive fuel, not a brief market scare.Quick TakeIndustry figures say the oil market is moving into a shortage regime as emergency stockpiles and prewar supplies get drawn down.One trader,...

Jim Whittaker stood atop Everest without oxygen, etching America's name in mountaineering immortality—yet his death at 97 leaves us wondering what drove one man to conquer the unconquerable.Early Life Forged a Mountaineer's ResolveJames Warren Whittaker entered the world on February 10, 1929, in Seattle,...