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Politicians still keep running for a rumble seat on the Springsteen bandwagon, however. New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley has written about the Boss for USA Today and, declaring himself "an old rock and roller," told the CBS Morning News that Bruce was "part Elvis, he's part Chuck Berry, he's part Buddy Holiday." The old rocker must have meant Buddy Holly, but, even with facts straight and names neatly in place, a professional politician is not likely to get an endorsement from Springsteen, who now seeks out small organizations in each town he plays, then makes a donation...
...Roller coasters are supposed to scare you, make you scream and maybe leave your stomach 300 ft. up in the air. But when you hop onto one, you should feel as safe as if you were climbing onto a city bus. That is the import of a decision last week by California's Supreme Court, which toughened safety standards for amusement-park rides by ruling that they should abide by the same standard applied to modes of transportation like buses and airplanes...
...Strip when high winds caused the ride to shut down. At Disney World in Orlando, Fla., a 4-year-old boy died after passing out on Mission: Space, a turbulent motion-simulator ride. (An investigation is under way; no safety problems have been found.) And the new Kingda Ka roller coaster at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, N.J., billed as the fastest yet, was shut down last week after a malfunction...
...high-tech rides and a tougher safety standard cued by the California court could make for a rough summer. "If a bus took you down hills at 60 m.p.h. and made you scream, that would be a problem," says John Robinson of California's amusement-park association. "If a roller coaster doesn't do that, then nobody will ride it." --By Laura Locke and Barbara Liston
...doesn't attempt to impart knowledge: there are no signboards listing the scientific names of the 20,000 fish, dolphins and penguins within, or diagrams of their anatomies. Instead, all the exhausted office worker needs to do is look at the pretty creatures swimming by. Even the adjacent roller coaster betrays a generation bias, drawing inspiration from Galaxy Express 999, a 1970s manga that Japanese adults remember nostalgically but not a cartoon their children would watch. The Epson Aqua Stadium is generally open from noon until 10 p.m. nightly?long after the little ones...