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After 10 minutes of trading outstanding defensive stands on both ends, Leary uncorked a rip from just below the restraining box that beat Cattrano off his stick-side hip and put the Crimson...
Back at his desk in Houston after the jump, he was rummaging for the names and addresses of all his new skydiving buddies so he could pay up on a penalty--one case of beer--because he'd dropped the rip cord instead of fixing it back on the patch of Velcro. Unwritten rule of the skyways: Recycle your equipment. His fellow jumpers didn't mind a bit, pronouncing his jump "perfect" for a novice. But Bush cared...
...then pure terror," Bush said last week. "The cockpit was filled with smoke. I could see the flames a few inches from the gas tanks. I stuck my head out, and the wind sucked me out of the cockpit. I must have pulled the rip cord then--too early. My head grazed the elevator at the tail. The chute had several panels ripped out as it momentarily hung up. I was so lucky. An inch or two difference, and I would have been killed by the blow or dragged down with the plane...
Almost from the beginning, Diamond and Sigmundson write, Joan rebelled at her treatment. Even as a toddler, she felt different. When her mother clothed her in frilly dresses, she would try to rip them off. She preferred to play with boys and stereotypical boys' toys--in one memorable instance walking into a store to buy an umbrella and walking out with a toy machine gun. By second grade, she had come to suspect she would fit in better as a boy. But her doctors insisted that these feelings were perfectly normal, that she was just a tomboy. "I thought...
Kordus has plenty of partners in anxiety as every lurch in the market--the Dow index did a three-day wiggle and dropped 57.34 points to close at 6931.62 last week--makes skittish investors wonder whether it's finally time to pull the rip cord and cash out. "The average person is very jittery but is still bringing in money in hopes of staying with the bull market," says Robert Coleman, an investment adviser with the firm Christopher Weil & Co. in San Diego. "People are constantly calling and asking, 'What do you think?'" Coleman adds. "I say, 'Relax, stay...