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David Rothenberg's high school year book said that in 10 years he would be wandering around the Himalayas doing research and playing strange music. This apparently far-out prediction proved to be prophetic, but chronologically off the mark. Prone to unconventionality and adventure, Rothenberg had already done exactly what the yearbook had forecasted within only three years after graduating from Staples High School in Westport, Conn...
...screw-bailer supreme, would have appreciated Billy's dad Rand (Hoyt Axton), an absent-minded inventor whose contraptions range from the Bathroom Buddy Shaving Kit to the Peltzer Peeler Juicer, which ingests oranges and splatters their pulp against the kitchen wall in Gremlins' first glint of far-out domestic violence...
...where parts of Octopussy were shot. Australia and New Zealand are enjoying a tourist boom, thanks to Yanks. Luxury liners expect to draw 15% more passengers than last year, and boast that 40% of the Love Boat crowd nowadays is under 35. There is an ever wider choice of far-out adventure vacations: trekking in the Himalayas, gorilla watching in Rwanda, bicycling through the People's Republic of China...
Even with a Northern Dancer in his bloodline, every yearling is a longshot. But Sangster can use his superstars to cover the losers. Moreover, his worldwide sources enable him to place what he delicately calls "the lesser horses" where they bring the best possible fees. One far-out deal: a stud standing in Tasmania...
...approaching his far-out subject, Sabom was determined to be "objective and systematic. Patients were asked standardized questions and did not at first know the purpose of his study. Rather than limiting it to people claiming to have had an NDE, as Moody did, Sabom questioned a random sample of patients who had suffered near fatal medical crises, defined as any unconscious bodily state that "would be expected to result in irreversible biological death in the majority of instances." Three-quarters had been in cardiac arrest. A few had already been given up for dead. One soldier, for instance...