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...Even the industry's most diligent critics, like Kathy Fackler, who maintains the Saferparks.org website, acknowledge that the odds of injury on a thrill ride are low. Millions of people rode the 7-year-old Rock 'N' Roller Coaster without serious incident before this week. But short of conducting echocardiograms on every child who wants to ride, says Dr. Arno Zaritsky, of the University of Florida College of Medicine in Gainesville, there is no way to know who has a hidden heart defect that might not withstand the ride's quick 0-60 mph acceleration, stomach-churning corkscrew turns...
...showing how movies could be both wildly vigorous and eye-poppingly artful. The admirers of these films had to search out their treasures in specialty video stores and, for the pure experience, in ratty theaters dotting the Chinatowns of major cities. But that was part of the Hong Kong thrill. Seeing an in-his-prime Jackie Chan action film on Canal Street - where the locals chatted and noshed through the movie, and you always propped your feet on the seat in front of you, to keep the rats from breaking your concentration on the martial marvels on the screen...
...daughters set a frantic pace. Although Michael kept up, it was sometimes a struggle for him. Still, he adored the trip. At a nature preserve in Australia, he let a huge python wrap itself around his neck. In Auckland, New Zealand, he sipped espresso and watched in amazement as thrill seekers, attached by wires, leaped from the Sky Tower--the tallest structure in the southern hemisphere--in what is called a controlled BASE jump. At the trip's end, he thanked his daughters profusely and, eyes twinkling, said, "You know, I have other dreams...
...professor in 2004.Last year, Greenhouse published her first book, “Becoming Justice Blackmun: Harry Blackmun’s Supreme Court Journey” after she was the first print reporter to receive access to Blackmun’s papers and documents. “It was a thrill to pick her up at the end of the workday and hear her say, ‘You won’t believe what I found today,’” says Fidell, who commutes to work with Greenhouse each day.For her Class Day speech, Greenhouse says...
...Postal Service sing, “I kissed you in [the] style [of] Clark Gable”—every guy learned to kiss by watching movie kisses, so every kiss is an imitation.The media can’t take away the pain of a funeral or the thrill of a kiss, but it robs us of our authenticity; how many of our actions, consciously or not, are based on what we’ve seen done before? Proust can insist “not only upon suffering, but upon respecting the originality of my suffering...