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...blonde girl arrives to shouted greetings from the half-dressed crowd in the bedroom. “I just rolled out of section,” she says casually. She is wearing a beautiful blue Lewis Albert dress with furry white Mukluks and a fur parka. She slips into the bedroom to change. Soon, she is padding around the suite in bare feet with red pedicured toes. She is Elizabeth R. Whitman ’06, the CEO of Lewis Albert Corp., as well as the fit model for the collection...

Author: By Véronique E. Hyland, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Manufacturing Desire | 10/26/2005 | See Source »

...nothing is required except strong nerves: you can get up to 60 km/h over the fine, undisturbed sand. The sport itself is easy to master, although you'll be finding grains of sand in your pockets (and even up your nose) for days afterward. And you can leave your parka and long johns at home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diversions | 9/27/2004 | See Source »

...nothing is required except strong nerves: you can get up to 60 km/h over the fine, undisturbed sand. The sport itself is easy to master, although you'll be finding grains of sand in your pockets (and even up your nose) for days afterward. And you can leave your parka and long johns at home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Built for Speed | 9/23/2004 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Performance of the Week | 11/3/2003 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 10/27/2003 | See Source »

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