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...BASE jump is a parachuted jump from a fixed object - a mountain, a building, anything that rises high into the air. The term is an acronym for the types of structures off of which jumpers fling themselves: Buildings, Antennas, Spans (bridges) and Earth (rocks). Carl Boenish, a cinematographer who had been filming freefall parachuting for several years, coined the term in 1981 as a way to categorize various jumps...
Norway has become a popular vacation destination for thrill seekers because it still permits BASE jumpers on many of its fjords. But it, too, is a dangerous place: in 1984, Boenish died from a failed jump off Trollveggen, the tallest vertical rock face in Europe. He had just set the record for tallest BASE jump a few days before - Trollveggen is 3,600 feet (1,100 m) tall - when his parachute failed to open. After 11 accidents and another three deaths, BASE jumping was banned at the site...
...long as there are mountains and skyscrapers, there will be people who want to jump off of them. The adrenaline rush, that first step off the ledge and into emptiness, the feel of the air as it whips across your face - these are the thrills that jumpers seek, and they are willing to risk their lives to find them...
...tried to jump-start his flagging campaign earlier this week, John McCain uttered a new rallying cry: "We've got them just where we want them." But even his die-hard supporters had to question that assessment. According to countless public polls, McCain's campaign has been losing, not gaining ground. No candidate wants to be down about seven points nationwide with no clear momentum and less than three weeks...
...Akai has never weighed more than 100 pounds, and is so slim that her waist is swimming in Zara's smallest size XS skirt. She doesn't need to lose any weight. But Japanese girls obsessed with diets tend to jump at any trendy new ones, so, when Akai heard about a popular actress who'd lost 26 pounds through the Morning Banana Diet, she had to try it. And the dearth of bananas as her local supermarket, and many others, is testimony to the popularity of the new dieting...