Word: californianism
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...June 9, Frank Gamballi, a friend of Kappfjell's, was killed in a jump from El Capitan in Yosemite National Park. Marta Empinotti, a Californian jumper whose boyfriend Steve Gyrsting crashed into a river at 100 m.p.h. when his chute failed, says that nonetheless she "couldn't live without" the sport: "I would die inside." To date 39 people have died outside...
...Californian like me, the Civil War always seemed like a sideshow of American history. Out west, most people were more interested in making money than fighting the war--although California managed to donate a few shipments of gold to the national treasury, it never bothered to send actual soldiers to the battlefield. Los Angeles was, and is, closer to Mexico City than to Gettysburg...
Strange as it sounds, the Duma, the lower house of the Russian parliament, has made the first moves toward an anti-smoking ban of Californian proportions. The ban would cover all workplaces, stadiums, schools, universities, theaters, hospitals, even public transport, nearly every place where Russians light...
...what about going home? I'm a Californian by birth and heritage, and I have spent enough summers in California to know that the locale can be heaven on earth. Why give that up? Why unnecessarily antagonize my parents by seeing them for a total of only five weeks in 1999? (While that might seem like a lot of time, it really isn't for an only child who talks to her parents every other day.) Because I want to eventually live in California, for me it represents the past and the future, but not necessarily the present...
...native Californian, Robinson had planned to follow in his father's footsteps and become a doctor, but instead studied at Parsons School of Design in Manhattan. At 28 he found himself heading Anne Klein's collection line. In 1996, after Robinson had served three seasons to mixed reviews, the company closed its high-end business. Jobless at 30, he decided to start his own label that year...