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...debate over whether to install a barrier on San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, the world's most popular place for suicides, is an abstraction for most people. But it is all too real for Kevin Hines. Of the more than 1,200 people who have jumped off the bridge, Hines is one of only 26 to have plummeted the 220 ft. into San Francisco Bay, hit the water at 75 mph and somehow survived. As soon as his hands left the bridge's railing, he says he thought, "I don't want...
...Debate has raged for more than 30 years over the cost, esthetics and effectiveness of installing a barrier on the Golden Gate Bridge, with various proposals made and rejected going as far back as 1970. But momentum has built in the last year, fueled in part by a documentary by filmmaker Eric Steel, who trained his cameras on the bridge for most of the daylight hours in 2004 - not to chronicle a day in the life of the bridge, as he had originally told officials, but to make a film about suicide...
...think about while you're waiting at the boarding gate. But there are ways to lower your risk: stay hydrated (by drinking plenty of water and laying off alcohol and caffeine), move around as much as possible, avoid sleeping pills that knock you out, consider wearing support hose to improve circulation, and ask your doctor about taking aspirin to thin your blood...
...from riding into the city via the three drainage canals breached after Katrina. The Corps admitted last week that two of the three floodgates it was building for the job would not be finished on June 1, as promised. The anticipated delay--a month in the case of one gate structure--has made people in New Orleans nervous, if not downright angry...
...seems to have gotten more and more elaborate each year—definitely when I started I didn’t see people being carried around in caravans or shopping carts the way they are now,” he says. Much to students’ and creepy gate crashers’ delight, the PG days of Primal Scream are gone with Vanilla...