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...KINGDA KA New Jersey This brand-new superstar from the U.S. theme park chain Six Flags claimed the roller coaster triple crown when it opened earlier this year, notching up the fastest speed (205 km/h), the tallest ride (139 m), and the biggest drop (127 m). Numbers...
...years to come. Cars trot along this centenarian at a stately 16 km/h. Kingda Ka New Jersey This brand-new superstar from the U.S. theme park chain Six Flags claimed the roller coaster triple crown when it opened earlier this year, notching up the fastest speed (205 km/h), the tallest ride (139 m), and the big-gest drop (127 m). Numbers don't lie. Gravity Max Taichung, Taiwan Located in the Discovery World theme park, Gravity Max is the world's only "tilt coaster." That means it's not just the cars that move. The track does, too, tilting...
...myth of Tusitala has also undergone a workout. But you'd expect nothing less from the story of how one of the world's tallest tale-tellers came to an island of natural yarn-spinners (fagogo is the Samoan word for their rich and digressive oral tradition). Setting out from San Francisco in 1888 with wife Fanny, 11 years his senior, Stevenson sought both material for his writing and warm weather for his ailing lungs. After stops along the way, Stevenson began to pine for "an island with a profile," and found it in the natural peaks and waterfalls...
...Height of Xi Shun, 54, a herdsman from Inner Mongolia, surpassing Tunisia's Radhouane Charbib as the world's tallest living...
...CITIC subsidiary. Among other ventures, CITIC is financing textile mills, chemical plants and machinery production. It is also a major real estate developer. The firm's 29-story headquarters, which opened last summer, towers above the Peking skyline. The building, though, will no longer be the capital's tallest once work is completed on a 50-story apartment complex that CITIC is financing...