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...last week when FELIX BAUMGARTNER jumped from a plane at 30,000 ft. With a 6-ft., carbon-fiber wing strapped to his back and a supply of oxygen handy, the Austrian stuntman glided the 22 miles to Calais, France, reaching speeds of 217 m.p.h. Of his 14-min. jaunt, he remarked, "It's very cold up there...
...lifeguard with an obscenely flat stomach. Increasingly drawing people from such coastal delights are agritourism, where you pay to smell what cows do to grass, and "edge" trips, where you are charged big bucks to risk your life scaling or jumping off something. There's also the wellness jaunt, where you try to buy back misspent youth in a spa. And then there are excursions for culture vultures, those the English poet Philip Larkin called "ruin-bibbers, randy for antique." Whatever form vacation takes, we keep on doing it - we may even want to do it more to escape...
DIED. TONY ROMA, 78, restaurant magnate, who opened his first barbecue shop with his partner, chef David Smith, in North Miami, Fla., in the 1970s and expanded it into an international empire; of cancer; in Hemet, Calif. His enterprise went global after a Texas financier, on a jaunt to the Super Bowl, dropped by Roma's eatery for a meal and wound up buying into the business. Today there are more than 225 Famous for Ribs restaurants scattered over five continents...
...first road games I covered as a young freshman were the men’s basketball team’s annual jaunt to Penn and Princeton. Unfortunately, the writer who was to come along got sick, and so it was up to me to forge ahead alone. I couldn’t borrow a car, so I went to the only place that rented to those under 21: Allston’s venerable “EZ Auto”. At the Crimson, we expense-account everything, so I had no qualms (even though I had been told...
...Seidman was only available for an interview after flying home on a late-night flight from another research jaunt in Guatemala last Monday. Though happily tenured in the Ivory Tower, she still continues to energetically engage in a life filled with travel, activism, analysis and reflection...