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...used to ride around with my grandfather in a horse and buggy," remembers Katherine Buffett, 93, of her childhood on a Nebraska farm. "Sometimes he would let me drive the horse myself." These days, when Mrs. Buffett hunkers down in her Hawker 1000 jet, the pilot does not offer her the reins. But he always gets her back home to Omaha on time...
...those who remain, that is, following the recent Christian Rapture, which has literally snatched believers from cars and offices and carried them off bodily to heaven. Among those left behind to battle evil as part of the rag-tag "Tribulation Force" are Rayford Steele, a former commercial-airline pilot, and Cameron ("Buck") Williams, publisher of the cyberjournal The Truth. Their enemy: one Nicolae Carpathia, former U.N. Secretary-General, current Global Community Potentate and--some believe--the Antichrist...
Consider Mike Carr, an environmental engineer and paraglider pilot from Denver who last year survived a bad landing that smashed 10 ribs and collapsed his lung. Paraglider pilots use feathery nylon wings to take off from mountaintops and float on thermal wind currents--a completely unpredictable ride. Carr also mountain bikes and climbs rock faces. He walked away from a 1,500-ft. fall in Peru in 1988. After his recovery, he returned to paragliding. "This has taken over many of our lives," he explains. "You float like a bird out there. You can go as high...
...question is, How much is enough? Without some expression of risk, we may never know our limits and therefore who we are as individuals. "If you don't assume a certain amount of risk," says paraglider pilot Wade Ellet, 51, "you're missing a certain amount of life." And it is by taking risks that we may flirt with greatness. "We create technologies, we make new discoveries, but in order to do that, we have to push beyond the set of rules that are governing us at that time," says psychologist Farley...
...scheme in which drugs were concealed in the carts loaded in Colombia and then removed on arrival in the U.S. An undercover sting operation had also enticed the suspects into smuggling weapons and explosives aboard planes. Agents began investigating the smuggling ring after in-flight coffee, which an American pilot had complained was too weak, turned out to have been accidentally laced with heroin...