Word: carres
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Consider Mike Carr, an environmental engineer and paraglider pilot from Denver who last year survived a bad landing that smashed 10 ribs and collapsed his lung. Paraglider pilots use feathery nylon wings to take off from mountaintops and float on thermal wind currents--a completely unpredictable ride. Carr also mountain bikes and climbs rock faces. He walked away from a 1,500-ft. fall in Peru in 1988. After his recovery, he returned to paragliding. "This has taken over many of our lives," he explains. "You float like a bird out there. You can go as high...
DIED. ALLAN CARR, 62, movie producer; from liver cancer; in Beverly Hills, Calif. Creator of Playboy Penthouse Television, Carr went on to write such camp movies as 1980's Can't Stop the Music. He produced the movie Grease and the Broadway play La Cage aux Folles...
...last year, KSG has been carrying out aprototype human rights initiative, funded by Carr...
...Carr said he has been "very impressed" with theprogram, and its success convinced him to donatemoney for the center...
...Carr is the co-founder of Boston Technology,Inc. and served as its CEO and then chair of theboard. In 1996, he took over as chair of Prodigy,but sold a portion of his interests in theinternet services company earlier this year inorder to found the Carr foundation...