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...consuming passion. Ashrita Furman, a health-food store manager from Queens, N.Y., has broken more than 200 records. He notched his first in 1979 by doing more than 27,000 jumping jacks, and has since hop-scotched the globe in search of new marks, tacking on records for rope-skipping (on a pogo stick) at Cambodia's Angkor Wat, hula-hooping at Australia's Ayers Rock, and traveling the entire 12-mile length of Paul Revere's Massachusetts ride in forward rolls. "I'm trying to show others that our human capacity is unlimited if we can truly believe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Guinness World Records | 11/14/2008 | See Source »

...Matt Luft leaps to rope in the 37-yard pass from Pizzotti...

Author: By Crimson staff | Title: LIVE BLOG: HARVARD VS. COLUMBIA (11/8) | 11/8/2008 | See Source »

...breast sculpture. He learned my work and asked me to make designs.' The 'big breast sculpture' is Hiropon, a painted fiberglass work completed in 1997 of a blue-haired girl with gargantuan breasts from which milk gushes in such abundance that the flow encircles her body like a skipping rope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Art World, Demystified | 11/3/2008 | See Source »

...Sunday talk shows is a virtual stranger to the small band of reporters on his plane - less accessible than even Sarah Palin is to her traveling pack of bloodhounds. And Biden keeps to a schedule that provides a minimum of off-the-cuff encounters with voters, except across a rope line. See Joe Biden's defining moments here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hidin' Biden: Reining In a Voluble No. 2 | 10/29/2008 | See Source »

...Next to the skaters were three older women (they had to be at least thirty) practicing double-Dutch. Realizing that our interest was piqued, they invited us to watch their jump roping show. The three butchered nearly every trick they tried, smiling sheepishly and muttering excuses under the beat of their hip-hop soundtrack. At the end of the show they handed us flyers for the jump rope lessons they taught, which we promptly threw out at the next available trash...

Author: By Jamison A. Hill, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hunting Buffalo | 10/22/2008 | See Source »

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