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AILING. EVEL KNIEVEL, 60, motorcycle daredevil; awaiting a liver transplant owing to the effects of hepatitis C; in Tampa, Fla. Knievel believes he contracted the disease during one of 14 operations to repair the 35 broken bones and other injuries caused by his stunts...
...other day, I met a victim of such an attack. She had been carefully walking her bike in the Yard, as the law dictates, when she was viciously knocked to the ground by a typically aggressive Harvard biker. Shaken and bruised, she made it to her office cursing the daredevil Yard bikers. I had nothing but sympathy for this Harvard Law School secretary. Bikes are supposed to be walked in the Yard. It's the rule, and it's only fair. Bikers in the Yard put pedestrians at risk...
...hooked on the adrenaline rush of immediate public approval? I prefer more subtle explanations. How gratifying to discover and nurture a new talent in midlife. I relish the I'd-be-scared-to-do-that praise from weekend rock climbers and hang gliders who view me as a fellow daredevil. But, mostly, it's as fun to get laughs now as it was when I was cracking wise from the back of the room in fifth grade. I get a surge of pleasure each time I score with my New York Times shtick: "The Times still hasn't figured...
PARIS: Fate was brutally unkind that August night when it brought Princess Diana to the French capital. It saddled her not only with a reckless, daredevil drunk-driver, but also an emergency care system that -- by wasting precious time treating her at the scene, instead of rushing her to the hospital -- proved disastrous for dealing with her type of injury. So say TIME Paris bureau chief Tom Sancton and Middle East Correspondent Scott MacLeod in their new book, Death of A Princess: The Investigation. In extracts published exclusively in TIME magazine, Sancton and MacLeod reveal how Diana's injury...
...what of Henri Paul, the chauffeur so loaded with alcohol that his vision may have been blurred as he smashed into the Alma tunnel's 13th pillar? Sancton and MacLeod reveal Paul's history of daredevil stunts in passenger planes, and how his final stunt was to drink whiskey-strength aperitifs -- right under the noses of Dodi Fayed's bodyguards. Another irony: Mohammed Al-Fayed, in his first post-crash interview, tells Sancton and MacLeod how he begged Dodi not to go from the rear of the hotel with a substitute driver. Dodi didn't heed Mohammed's advice...