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...thrill, or call it crazy. Just don't call bungee jumping illegal -- that is, if the right kind of platform is involved. For years determined aerialists risked arrest by hurling themselves off bridges. Then a few discovered cranes, which are perfectly legal but hard to find. Now in Colorado bungee jumping is readily accessible. Leapers of faith can visit Clear Creek County, where officials have approved a 140-ft.-high bungee-jumping tower on public land 30 miles west of Denver. A county over, in Fort Lupton, the Federal Aviation Administration is expected this week to certify Adrenaline Adventures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bungee Jumping Comes of Age | 4/15/1991 | See Source »

...county commissioners unanimously approved a two-year special-use permit to allow construction of the 140-ft. tower on land zoned for mining. "I expected hordes of people to come out against this, but the only concerns were about transportation and parking," says Carl Finocchiaro, president of Bungee Jumping Colorado. "I was absolutely dumbfounded. The whole concept of bungee jumping was supported...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bungee Jumping Comes of Age | 4/15/1991 | See Source »

...news for those who stand to profit. Start-up firms charge $50 to $90 per jump and expect to attract as many as 100 jumpers per week. "The best mountain climbers anywhere live here," says Doug Hase, 23, president of Adrenaline Adventures. "Bungee jumping just fits in with the Colorado aura." One-fifth of his jumpers come back for more. Says Hase: "It's a huge sense of accomplishment after completing a jump...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bungee Jumping Comes of Age | 4/15/1991 | See Source »

...order to keep bits of rubber from choking the fish. Ten state senators in Washington proposed that the eastern part of Washington be allowed to secede and form a new state called Lincoln. "Lincoln was a great emancipator," said one of them, "and we want emancipation from Seattle." The Colorado House decided that you could be sued for making derogatory comments about foods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: And While You Were Gone . . . | 3/18/1991 | See Source »

...pure irony that Weisbrod and Vukonich both ended up at Harvard. The two--dubbed the twin Towers upon their arrival at Harvard--had originally met in the press box at a Colorado-Denver hockey game. Weisbrod, a New York native, was a Denver recruit and was sitting with the Denver Coach. Vukonich was a Colorado recruit and was with the Colorado coach...

Author: By Gary R. Shenk, | Title: Vukonich: The Gentle Giant | 3/11/1991 | See Source »

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