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...hair-raising, points out, "This fashion comes from the street, where young people create their own style." Tights and body stockings, topped with a big sweater or jacket, can be a cheap way to dress when a label like Lacroix's isn't attached. The average Danskin tights in nylon or Lycra blends range in price from $10 to about $13. At Barneys New York, the house line costs from $5 to $16, with designer labels from $16 to $25. At the top of the line, hand-printed Puccis run from...
Enthusiasts maintain that the thrills outweigh the risks. Jumpers leap headfirst from bridges, cranes and hot-air balloons, from 90 to 300 ft. above the ground, with only a long nylon-cased rubber bungee cord to break their fall. Anchored around the ankles or to a body harness, the wrist-thin cord is long enough to allow a few seconds of free fall before it stretches, dampening the force of the plunge. The jumper sometimes hurtles to within a few feet of the ground before rebounding skyward like a yo-yo as the cord snaps back to its original length...
...particularly daring mood, there's always parasailing. Imagine flying hundreds of feet above the shore with the comforting knowledge that the only thing preventing your fall is a nylon parachute...
Last week Japan announced that it would sharply curtail one of its most controversial practices: the use of drift nets. These enormous expanses of nylon mesh, which fan out for miles behind trawlers, are generally intended to catch squid and tuna, but they also indiscriminately trap and kill large numbers of other fish, seabirds, porpoises and other marine mammals. Japanese officials said they would reduce the drift-net fleet in the South Pacific to 20 ships, the same number that worked the area in the 1987-88 season. This season the fleet had grown to at least 60 boats...
...LaBudde, a biologist with Earthtrust, a Honolulu-based wildlife protection group, describes drift nets as "the single most destructive fishing technology ever devised by man." Drift nets work by entangling sea life in their nylon mesh. Ships later reel in the nets, taking out the squid or fish and discarding unlucky marine bystanders. It is like hunting for deer by poisoning every animal in the forest...