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...clothing to her speech. And if her dad makes it into the White House, things will only get worse. Seventeen will publish a spread on 1600 Pennsylvania avenue's youngest resident; Sassy will run an interview and print every "like" and "um" Chelsea utters. She will be thrust headfirst into the role of American Spokesteen...
...barely reconstruct her 20s, when she dwelt in a shadowy land of waking nightmares, fiendish voices and the alarming conviction that her parents were actually witches. What she can recall clearly is the moment two years ago when it all came down to one choice: Should she dive headfirst or feetfirst from the third-floor window ledge of her room in a Cleveland boarding house? Feetfirst, she decided. It meant a fractured hip, multiple bruises -- and survival...
...town of Fort Lupton, Colo., two men float in a hot-air balloon. One lashes a strong rubber cord to the midsection of the other, Fred Kaemerer, 23, a Denver engineer, who grimaces like a condemned man. When the countdown rings out -- "Three! Two! One!" -- Kaemerer swan-dives headfirst over the edge of the gondola. Although it lasts only seconds, the 60 m.p.h. plunge seems to take forever. But the real kick is yet to come. Just as Kaemerer hurtles to within a few feet of the earth and a terrifying impact, the cord stretches taut, recoiling him skyward like...
...waste on the part of those on Beacon Hill. A deficit conservatively estimated at upwards of a billion dollars, a bond rating--already the lowest in the country--teetering on the brink of junk bond status, declining real estate values, 100,000 lost jobs and an economy spiraling headfirst into recession have been the results of their efforts...
...many sellers are turning to an expert: St. Joseph. Religious-goods merchants in several cities have been surprised at the brisk sales of St. Joseph statues, which homeowners bury in their yards in the belief the saint will drum up some business. The hopeful sellers inter the statues headfirst, with the feet toward heaven...