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...journalists, public servants and businessmen out there, but in here we're hopelessly mortal, relying on our guides, ourselves and our next slippery foothold to get us through. Pat and our other guide, Dan, warn us that a fall here almost certainly means death, even as they have to leap onto wet rocks themselves to unsnag the rafts. We pull our little craft on ropes, use them as bridges to clamber over, tugging them as we inch backward along narrow ledges above frothing water. We push and pull them over boulders midstream, dropping them in the water on the other...
LAURA WILKINSON AGE 26 HOMETOWN Spring, Texas EVENTS Diving--10-m platform THE DRAMA Craving suspense? Watch Wilkinson. She won gold in Sydney by making a memorable leap from eighth place. Made the 2004 team on a nail-biting final dive. THE COMPETITION Wilkinson is a wonder, but she'll have Lao Lishi of China and Emilie Heymans of Canada on her heels...
Ever since the euro was introduced in 1999, financial experts have predicted that it would lead to the sweeping, Continent-wide consolidation of many European industries, particularly the crowded banking sector. The dream was that a single European currency would leap over national priorities and prompt banks to reach across borders for merger partners, the better to compete with America's megabanks. But a funny thing happened on the way to banking consolidation: nothing. Except for a few small deals, such as the 2000 takeovers of Bank Austria by Munich-based HVB, and Unidanmark by Swedish-Finnish lender MeritaNordbanken, banks...
...though he was a good coach, laying the groundwork for the Crimson’s restoration, his teams never quite made the leap back into the upper echelon of collegiate hockey powers. In Harvard’s three NCAA tournament appearances under Mazzoleni, the Crimson was eliminated in the first round on each occasion, right on the cusp of fulfilling its promise...
...flight of SpaceShipOne--brainchild of aerospace whiz Burt Rutan and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen--was hailed as a giant leap toward opening space flight to tourists. Indeed, the craft was impressively small and lightweight (about the size of an SUV) and relatively cheap (about $20 million, compared with the $400 million-plus that NASA drops on each space-shuttle launch). But don't call your travel agent just yet. Melvill made it to just the edge of space, only about a quarter of the way to the International Space Station. And he ran into a scary glitch: during...