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Jessica Dubroff's wings may have been frosted with ice, and she had no joy of flight on her last ride. She took off in a cold rain and died when her single-engine Cessna 177B nose-dived onto the black tar of a suburban roadway. But her senseless death last week could also be attributed to a modern kind of hubris. For Jessica was urged on by overzealous parents, by a media drawn to a natural human-interest story and by a willfully blind Federal Aviation Administration, which permitted a 4-ft. 2-in., 55-lb. seven-year...
...Jessica's flight plan found a receptive audience at the television networks. It was an ideal human-interest story. Upbeat. A natural narrative. Good visuals. A telegenic little girl with a dusting of freckles on her nose. A challenge. A record. Triumph. End with slo-mo of Jessica throwing her baseball cap in the air. Music from Chariots of Fire...
Also sent reeling was the archaic belief that women are somehow, uh, softer. During the second round, Gogarty caught the 135-lb. Martin flush on the nose, opening a spigot of blood. After the round, as cornermen tried to stop the flow, Jim asked Christy if she wanted to continue. "I was concerned because she's my wife first, my fighter second," he says. "She told me, 'Don't you dare stop this fight.'" Martin's persistence was rewarded not only with the decision, the cheers of the crowd and the W.B.C. women's championship belt, but also with what...
...amount of nitrates and other manure products that leach into the soil. Among other things, the company plans to line the 30 lagoons that will contain hog wastes with heavy plastic sheeting designed to prevent the fetid brew from oozing into the aquifer. But Travis is still holding his nose. Says he: "We're not giving up until we can be convinced that there will be minimal impact." As minimal an impact as 450,000 pigs can make...
...trying to imply that a contest in which some brute is permitted to pound his opponent into submission by nearly any means at his disposal--a knee to the groin, a stomp on the nose--is, when all is said and done, slightly wimpish. I certainly mean no disrespect to those who participate in Ultimate Fighting and may list their hobbies as "beating smart alecks to a pulp...