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Squeals of excitement can be heard just about everywhere, from the diabolical stomach-churning Scream Machine roller coaster to the Space Drop, which simulates free fall from a height of 236 ft. "There are a few scary seconds while you're waiting for the parachute to open," admits one man who ventured up, and down, in a tiny capsule...
Rule One is no artificial stimulants. That includes alcohol, hallucinogens and especially caffeine. Doing it with caffeine is too easy--like riding a roller coaster in the back seat with your eyes closed, shooting fish in a barrel or attacking Reagan for mental incompetence. The true Allnightist prefers a challenge...
...those not quite so acclimated with the Christian tradition, a short trip over scenic desert regions and barbed wire would land them in Muslim-Land. Muslims would absolutely flip for the renovated Dome of the Rock, re-done as a religious "Space Mountain" roller-coaster ride...
...Harvard expert, though, isn't totally impressed. Touring space is a "hell of a roller-coaster ride," said David W. Latham, the associate director of the Center for Astrophysics...
...protagonist is an anonymous young writer hacking out Bradburyesque stories for the pulps. The time is 1949, the place is Venice, and in the distance the pier is "falling apart and dying in the sea and you could find there the bones of a vast dinosaur, the roller coaster, being covered by the shifting tides...