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...tallest (415 ft.) and fastest (100 m.p.h.) roller coaster ever built. Chang, which opened in April in Louisville's Kentucky Kingdom, claims the "tallest vertical loop for any roller coaster" (121 ft.), while a new ride 200 ft. tall at Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom in Allentown, Pa., is distinguishing itself as "the tallest, longest and fastest steel roller coaster on the East Coast." The Great White at Sea World of Texas in San Antonio is that state's only inverted coaster. But what if you're a wimp? Well, no one has torn down all the world's merry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COOL SUMMER RIDES: JOYRIDERS' PARADISE | 5/26/1997 | See Source »

...readers who is so afflicted will finally look at himself or herself and say, "I'm a good person. I'm just sick, and I need help." If so, you will have done more than sell a million magazines; you will have saved one life. BILL BANSBACH Drexel Hill, Pa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 26, 1997 | 5/26/1997 | See Source »

...their lives. Your story on Dennis and Lorie Nixon, "Her Dying Prayers," illustrates the typical '90s rush to judgment that would convict a family on the basis of its religious beliefs and the fact that its members pray to God for healing. Were Jesus traveling the roads of Altoona, Pa., rather than Galilee, healing the sick and preaching, he would have been tried under the full power of prosecuting attorney William Haberstroh. CASEY W. WRIGHT Phoenix, Ariz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 26, 1997 | 5/26/1997 | See Source »

SENTENCED. JOHN DU PONT, 58, deranged chemical heir who killed an Olympic wrestler last year in a fit of paranoia; to 13 to 30 years in state custody, to be spent in prison or a mental hospital; in Media, Pa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones May 26, 1997 | 5/26/1997 | See Source »

...world, I have seen no harm from administering morphine. What I have seen is patients who have suffered excruciating pain. It is a physician's duty to provide proper pain relief. Suspending the license of a doctor who prescribes morphine is an unethical act. MICHEL H.E. HERMANS, M.D. Newtown, Pa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 19, 1997 | 5/19/1997 | See Source »

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