Word: wente
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When a BASE jumper dies, other BASE jumpers say he has "gone in," as in gone into the ground or gone into a wall. "I'm sick of people going in," says Fillipino. "In the past year, a friend went in on a skydive, another drowned as a result of a BASE jump, another friend went in on a jump, another died in a skydiving-plane crash. You can't escape death, but you don't want to flirt with it either." It may be the need to flirt with death, or at least take extreme chances, that...
...serves as Egypt's Undersecretary of State for the Giza Monuments, got wind of a new, unsuspected burial site at the Bahariya Oasis, some 230 miles southwest of Cairo. When he arrived, recalls Hawass, "one of the tomb ceilings had fallen in and the sun shone through it. I went in and looked at the mummies in the rays of the sun. All I could see was gold...
...Towers' hallways remind you of the "Die Hard" building after the power went...
Then, Thursday night, I started reporting. I went to a party my roommate was living in the common room, and lo and behold, I found seniors! I used the opportunity to interview a couple of them that I didn't know, and I also interviewed one of my blockmates. Ethics--journalistic and otherwise--don't matter that much in your final semester...
...senior class, which last year went for the apple-pie-and parenthood choice of Children Defense Fund founder Marian Wright Edelman, this year picked a woman who has lately rarely escaped the spotlight of controversy...