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...team has a bit of a grace period before entering its upcoming two-game set against Niagara on November...
Wearing only street clothes and a parka, KIRK JONES climbed a guard rail, slid into the Niagara River and plummeted headfirst over the 173-ft. Horseshoe Falls--becoming the first known person to survive the drop with no protection. He acknowledged that depression may have driven him to do it, but enthused, "I feel that I have reached out and touched the face of God. And he smiled...
SURVIVED. KIRK JONES, 40, unemployed clerk who deliberately plunged 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...
...down? The blame cascaded as fast as the blackout. On the ground some Americans blamed Canada for its origin; Canadians returned the favor. Ottawa officials first suggested that it was a lightning strike at a plant in upstate New York, except that it was a lovely sunny day in Niagara Falls, and there were no reports of lightning anywhere. In the end, the two governments announced a joint task force to investigate, and President Bush said he would look into "why the cascade was so significant, why it was able to ripple so significantly throughout our system." But finding answers...
...Anderson: It's a done deal. We perceive that they have moved to the side to go over Niagara Falls theologically and we're simply going straight down the road where we've been going with the Anglican communion. Here's an interesting thought. Gene Robinson has said there came a point in his marriage where he and his wife still cared for each other but they couldn't live together as man and wife. So they literally went into the church - his words as I understand it - they kept their vows by breaking them. In an open, honest...