Word: canyoneering
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...GRAND CANYON...
...business of the movies is to reassure us. The boy eventually gets the girl; the bad guy bites the dust. And maybe Grand Canyon, which ends on a subdued but nevertheless optimistic note, must finally be construed as a conventionally cheering film...
...motherhood or patriotism. Slow-growth advocates have discovered that their cause can unite liberal environmentalists with fiscal conservatives into a new coalition covering as much as 80% of local public opinion. In exclusive Laguna Beach last fall, residents voted to tax themselves $20 million to start buying an adjoining canyon before it could be developed. Says city council member Robert Gentry: "In Southern California, open space is becoming the symbol of quality of life. And the only way people have of limiting the rapid urbanization of land...
...Canyon Ranch, a glossy health spa on the outskirts of Tucson that specializes in alternative techniques, a gifted physical therapist named Karma Kientzler watches a patient, Susan Pinkus, operate an exercise machine. Chemotherapy for ovarian cancer had left Pinkus with severe nerve damage in her hands and feet; she had poor balance and almost no sense of control over her extremities. Kientzler's mind-and-body system, which she calls "emotion and motion," has brought Pinkus back to near normal. A few days ago, she was able to ride a horse on a trail. "You have given me back...
...John was on their own roof with the garden hose. The view across the canyon to Hiller Highlands was unnerving. One by one, houses exploded in flames. A neighbor yelled that they were surrounded by fire. "We're the hole in the doughnut," he shouted. John shivered. "At this point I was still halfway rational," he remembers. He got the kids into their tennis shoes, backed the station wagon and the Mercedes sedan out of the garage, put the kids in the cars and left the engines running. At 2 p.m. the fire crested the hill above the Harrison house...