Word: roberts
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...used to it now because I have to be. It's not his job, it's his passion." - Nicole Robert, on her husband's dangerous pastime. (London Daily Telegraph, June 23, 2005) (See the Shadowless Skyscraper in the Best Inventions...
...first, I thought, 'Is he a window washer?' But he had no equipment." - Kim Severson, a New York Times reporter who watched Robert climb the Times building in New York City in June 2008. (New York Times, June...
...become stuck while climbing only once, while ascending the Four Seasons Hotel in Hong Kong in April 2008. On the building's 59th floor, the windows became taller, exceeding his wingspan. After a while, Robert figured out a way to nudge himself...
...Robert transformed the ceiling in his home, in the south of France, into a horizontal all-weather artificial climbing wall where he trains by spending up to 20 minutes at a time upside down...
...Libya's relations with the world are affected," says former special adviser Owen. The star guests at the Sept. 1 celebration in Tripoli to mark the 40th anniversary of the coup that brought Gaddafi to power were two of the world's most controversial leaders: Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe and Sudan's Omar Hassan al-Bashir. Western leaders were notable by their absence. (Read "Lockerbie Bomber's Release Casts a Shadow Over Gaddafi Celebration...