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Iguazu Falls, as Eleanor Roosevelt famously observed, "make the Niagara look like a kitchen faucet." This may be an exaggeration but not by much?after all, the Iguazu Falls are four times wider than Ontario's most famous body of water. Located amid lush rainforest at the border of Brazil and Argentina, they present one of the best (and most deafening) opportunities you will ever have for an encounter with the unbridled power of nature. The Brazilian side has the panoramas, while the Argentinean side offers proximity to the falls themselves. But viewing from both sides is necessary to complete...
Iguazu Falls, as Eleanor Roosevelt famously observed, "make the Niagara look like a kitchen faucet." This may be an exaggeration but not by much?after all, the Iguazu Falls are four times wider than Ontario's most famous body of water. Located amid lush rainforest at the border of Brazil and Argentina, they present one of the best (and most deafening) opportunities you will ever have for an encounter with the unbridled power of nature...
...occasion, however, something goes wrong, and a fortnight ago it did. In Niagara Falls, Lieut. Commander Robert Michael Gershon, 32, was piloting his Skyhawk through a stunt called the opposing blivot, in which two planes approach head on, then, as they come within 200 ft. of each other, go into steep climbs. At the peak of the stunt, the pilots pull out of a 6,000-ft.-high loop, point their planes downward and crisscross paths at a 45° angle. It was during that precisely timed climax that Gershon's plane and another A-4 collided. The pilot...
...pick? Loyalties clash with realities. In other words, if you hail from Niagara, there’s still no way you’re writing the Purple Eagles into the Sweet Sixteen...
...chores and hugs. The students come with health insurance and spending money. Some affluent empty nesters treat their kids to travel and other goodies, but hosts don't have to spend much, says Inge Gabel. "I always cook for more than two anyway," she says, "and we live near Niagara Falls and take all our kids there...