Word: ballooned
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...Plenty, according to the FDA hearings: more than 40% of women with saline implants return to the operating room because of pain, misshapen breasts or other complications. If the implants are removed, the skin may never be the same. Should a saline implant rupture, it deflates like a popped balloon, leaving a woman asymmetrical. Finally, all implants make mammograms more difficult to read...
...nights later at 1 a.m., a water balloon launched from a frat house across the street shattered the window of another camper’s room. Fortunately no one was injured, but we had to move the kids to a different room on a different floor until the window could be repaired—in the middle of the night. Campus police were powerless because the frat house was situated just outside the border of University property. Again my patience surprised...
Until STEVE FOSSETT, a hot-air-balloon ride seemed like a serene activity for surveying pastoral landscapes, best undertaken with foie gras and a fine wine. But the Chicago millionaire has turned ballooning into an endurance sport requiring deprivation and a ground crew. Since 1998, the adventurer has tried to complete the first solo circumnavigation of the globe by balloon. After five attempts--most of which ended abruptly in large bodies of water--he made it. But by staying far south, he shortened what would have been a nearly 25,000-mile journey at the equator to 19,428 miles...
...Mountains, snowcapped year round, are known as the Southern Alps and offer excellent heli-skiing in the winter (which corresponds to the U.S. summer). My wife and I took a helicopter tour of the mountains, jet-boated up the Dart River, ascended 6,000 ft. in a hot-air balloon and trekked undisturbed in a vast beech forest. We also toured one of New Zealand's most impressive wine regions, Central Otago...
...began in central France, where, as a young man, he managed a nature reserve. At 30, he moved to Kenya with his wife, Anne, to study lions in the Masai Mara reserve. There, he produced the first of some 70 books of photographs and, working as a hot-air balloon pilot taking tourists on wildlife-observation flights, developed a love for the vertical perspective. "People seeing the exhibition can see that, from a bird's-eye view, the world is a beautiful place," he says. "Close up, it is clear there are serious problems - and these are powerfully illustrated...