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...over Niagara Falls protected by nothing more than the street clothes and parka he was wearing; becoming the first human to survive the drop without a vessel or a safety device; in Niagara Falls, Canada. Jones clambered over a fence and calmly floated on his back toward the 53-m-high Horseshoe Falls on the Canadian side of the cataract, then slipped over the precipice. His only injuries: a few bruised ribs. Jones, who had lost his job after his parents closed the family auto-equipment business, said he was suicidally depressed but his friends told reporters he also said...
...toward the giant, greasy drill that has just emerged from beneath the ground. Once the drill is unhinged and swings freely, the crew encircles it and locks onto it a 9.5-m extension that will take this subterranean search for the mother lode even deeper into the earth. It is a rugged if familiar ballet of industrial labor, repeated daily from a perch halfway up a 65-m-high steel tower. But this time the familiar scene is not taking place on a North Sea rig or in a dusty patch of Saudi desert. Instead, the 2,600-m-long...
...somehow fall into place." Berliners traditionally split the neighborhood in two: the better-off, bohemian Kreuzberg 61 and the grittier SO36, both named after their postal codes. Start your walk by heading south from Mehringdamm station in Kreuzberg 61 and take a stroll up the Kreuzberg itself, a 66-m-high hill that gave the district its name in 1921. From the monument to the Wars of Liberation of 1813-15 at the top you have a sweeping view of the city and can relax to the sound of the waterfall tumbling down to Kreuzbergstrasse. Composer Giacomo Meyerbeer and philosopher...
...Mount Ramelau, or Tatamailau, as the maps label it, was once the highest point in the Portuguese empire. Located in East Timor's central region, about 30 kilometers north of Maubisse, the 2,963-m-high peak can be reached by turning off the main road to Ainaro and negotiating a rough trail to the town of Hatu Buliko, built at its base. It's easy to feel like an intrepid explorer in this backcountry. Foreign faces are seldom seen and the villagers linger to watch you pass...
...Simpson, who worked with famed architect Norman Foster in London but returned to his home town because "it was possible to have more of an impact in a city the scale of Manchester," won the Urbis commission in a blind international competition. Already his No. 1 Deansgate, a 60-m-high residential tower, has penthouse flats that sell for more than $1.5 million - record prices for Manchester. The Piccadilly Gardens project cleaned up another eyesore, transforming a dismal, sunken, traffic-choked island into a pleasant park in the heart of the city. Ando's curving white concrete pavilion, which will...