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...memory banks the ne plus ultra first-game experience, the Gone With the Wind of first games. Dad wanted us to see Ted Williams play before he retired. The day was fine and fair, the car ride to Boston joyous. Our first-ever trip on the T was a thrill, and then we hastened to the Fens (see what I mean, about the ode?). Three hours in Boston, all pavement and buildings bigger than we had ever seen, affected our eyesight like a dark room, and so when we walked up the tunnel into the brilliant sunshine we were blinded...
...ended up at Nobu with friends, and there was Ermakova, the colossal blunder he didn't make until his career's last day. He was still buzzing with the thrill of his final match, still wanting a piece of the action. Then he was in a closet; standing outside himself for the second time that day, he watched someone named Boris Becker drunkenly sire a daughter. "I had no idea what I was doing," he says. "It wasn't an affair. It was just poom-bah-boom...
Roller coasters are supposed to scare us. They wrap our non-phobic, perfectly natural fears of heights, speed and being turned upside down 200 feet above the cotton-candy stand into one vomit-inducing 2-minute thrill ride - and then they set us back on the ground, pat us on the back, and tell us where the end of the line is so we can go again...
...most of us thrill-seeking Americans - especially the kiddies - scamper away gleefully to comply. People love roller-coasters for the same reason some toddlers giggle happily when their fathers swing them around by an arm and a leg: Behind the dizzying thrills there's a full expectation of being safely returned, flushed and panting, to their mothers' arms. As Ann Brown, chair of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, put it at a recent hearing on roller coaster safety, "Thrill rides are supposed to give people the illusion of danger - not actually put people at risk...
...modern thrill ride gotten too thrilling? Do the new super-speedy, loop-de-loopedy coasters simply exert more stress than the human body is designed to withstand? Maybe, says safety consultant Bill Avery. The question turns out to hinge not so much on velocity as it does on quick changes of direction. "Just because it's bigger and moves at a higher speed doesn't necessarily make it more dangerous," Avery says. "But what's happened is that a lot of the rides have gone to rapid, multi-directional changes on the track, and when you have rapid changes either...