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...start immediately, when eight riders bunch up atop a three-story hill. At "go," expect a show. "You go 5 ft., then 'kink,' it drops almost straight down, about 60°," says Donny Robinson, the top-ranked rider for the U.S. men. "It's like going down a roller coaster, a 'just hang on' kind of thing." The racers will all be moving at 40 m.p.h., jostling for inside position. Calamities are commonplace: face it; that's part of the appeal. "Anyone here who tells you they haven't crashed is a liar," says fellow American Kyle Bennett...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beijing Gives BMX a Ride | 8/19/2008 | See Source »

...Honey, I Blew Up the Kids," where you get spritzed at the end. Journey also has a runaway-tram ride that will remind you of the one in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, but which I'd like to think is a tribute to the roller-coaster ride in the 1953 movie This Is Cinerama (another gimmick process that premiered in the middle of the original, short-lived 3D craze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Journey to the Center of Dave | 7/11/2008 | See Source »

...than it was at the height of sectarian violence in 2006. But with security gains from one day to the next still paper thin at times, it is difficult to conclude that this period represents progress that will last. More likely, it's just another dip in the roller coaster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will the Calm in Baghdad Last? | 6/25/2008 | See Source »

...Baruch College gymnasium in lower Manhattan to hear a victory story, not a valediction. They loved her as she strode in to the strains of "Ain't No Mountain High Enough," and loved her as she departed to Tina Turner's "Simply the Best." Her speech was a roller-coaster ride and they hung on every minute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Surrender (Yet) for Clinton | 6/4/2008 | See Source »

...Heart”) have had almost as much critical success as “Bonnie and Clyde,” many of them (“Billy Bathgate,” “Still of the Night”) have been utter failures. Rather than ride that roller coaster, Benton has approached both his high and low points as learning experiences. “Survival is about adaptation, not who you kill off,” he said. That, of course, applies to life and not films. As far as films go, Benton still has at least one person...

Author: By Jillian J. Goodman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Benton on Books, Beatty, and Bond | 4/25/2008 | See Source »

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