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...Before leaving China, Bush toured the Great Wall. "Same wall, different country," he said of the 27 years since he had first visited when his father was U.S. representative to the Middle Kingdom. The father and son had dinner 15 hours later back in Washington, which was a thrill for 41 who could tell old stories about a country he remembers fondly. For the current president, it was undoubtedly a chance to finally let his tongue go free...
Journalism, like any other investigative profession, has its share of thrill seekers. Daniel Pearl is not one of them. Colleagues and friends describe the Wall Street Journal's South Asia bureau chief as a seasoned correspondent who never fails to put safety first when reporting in dangerous places. So when Pearl--who had traveled between Pakistan and India over the past four months on the trail of a variety of terror-related stories--didn't check in as expected on the evening of Jan. 23, his editors had reason to be alarmed...
Once a month at Rice, members of Club 13 strip down and cover themselves with shaving cream. They then streak to the campus bar where they enjoy a pint on the house. The club president, quoted in Rolling Stone, says that despite the frequency of the event the thrill still remains: “People expect me to run and hang my penis in front of their face.” This past Halloween, the thrill was not enough for one Club 13 member, who was arrested for throwing water balloons at a Rice University police officer. The nudists weren?...
...flapping genitalia for the masses. There are a few who think it’s going to be sexy. These people are disappointed to see pink, freakish bodies scurrying around with undulating skin on a (frickin’ cold) mid-April evening. Most seem to do it for the thrill. Part of the thrill being, of course, the possibility of being arrested for indecent exposure and having your name on the county list of sex offenders. And many a rookie is surprised to see the Naked Mile vets with their clothes waiting for them at the finish line while they...
...THRILL OF THE CHASE What to do when the war news dries up? CNN last week had live coverage of a "hockey dad's" murder trial. Fox News followed an L.A. woman inexplicably fleeing police in a minivan...