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...words in your mouth. A friend of mine, a speechwriter for Sen. Tom Harkin, asked my advice on writing a speech for the West Virginia AFL-CIO. I suggested that he discuss the history of the labor movement in West Virginia, including the famous, bloody massacre at Paint Creek. Because of my faint Appalachian lilt, my friend understood it as "Pink Creek." Only a last-minute phone call saved the senator from certain humiliation...
...living if farmers followed all the rules and regulations made in Washington." Environmental concerns also took a back seat to economic self-interest, says Claudia Waterloo, Farm Futures' editor in chief. "Only 70% of the farmers we surveyed said they'd notify authorities if pesticides spilled into a creek...
...sway. The institute, with an enrollment of 1,850 (23% female, about 12% minority) and a faculty of 100, has a roster of 22,000 alumni that includes such celebrity chefs as Debra Ponzek of New York City's Montrachet restaurant and Dean Fearing of the Mansion on Turtle Creek in Dallas...
...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 to operate hot-air balloons modified for jumping -- the first such official...
Surprisingly, no critics turned up at the Clear Creek hearing last February at which 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...