Word: skies
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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They are not angry in New Zigui City, half a day's journey downriver. With its shiny new apartment buildings and broad streets, the town looks as if it has been dropped from the sky onto a hilltop above the site of the new dam. It will replace the quaint old town of Zigui, which will be inundated. And good riddance too, according to Feng Wanhu, a local teacher. "It was dirty, cramped. I lived in a house that was just 10 sq m [100 sq. ft.]. It had no bathroom, no running water, no kitchen inside... Here is much...
...doing what you can't do, but what you're not willing to do. And while the objective of these sports is not always clear (What does make the best stunt biker?), the appeal is unmistakable: these people are wacked. You don't have to know the intricacies of sky surfing to appreciate people free-falling from a plane with a skateboard strapped to their feet. It translates just fine...
...male viewers, who are increasingly bored by baseball, football and just about everything else that doesn't involve nudity. This month, along with such traditional contests as street luge, skateboarding and in-line skating, the Olympics-style event at San Diego's placid Mission Bay Park includes barefoot waterskiing, sky surfing and big-air snowboarding (yes, it's a summer event). More than 450 athletes from 27 countries will compete for gold medals in 28 events that NASA wouldn't let a monkey try. Last year 14 million amped kids watched, and more are expected to tune in this time...
...Games legitimize the pursuits of disaffected suburban youth. But not the truly disenfranchised. You have to be pretty tight with someone who owns a boat to learn to barefoot-waterski-jump, or have some serious spare cash to go up in a plane to sky-surf. These are the kinds of recreational activities that spring up when a nation hasn't been off to war in a long time...
...that states are suddenly flush with cash, they're starting to give some back to taxpayers. At least 14 states--including Arizona, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Nebraska and New York--have used sky-high tax revenues to cut personal income taxes in 1998, according to a new study. Tax revenues are still rising, so there could be more cuts coming...