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...beats just about everything for sheer hair-raising excitement. It offers danger, exhilaration, suspense, terror and fast-moving scenery. It is called bungee jumping, and it is the latest sports craze among the young, particularly in California, New Zealand and France. Many American TV viewers were introduced to it last month by a controversial (and now discontinued) Reebok sneaker ad that showed two men leaping from a bridge: in the final scene, one jumper dangles safely from an elastic cord while the other, wearing a different brand of shoes, has tumbled out of them -- presumably to his death...
...plastic surgeon Elizabeth Morgan sent the girl into hiding and spent more than two years in a Washington jail. Now Hilary Foretich, the seven-year-old girl at the center of one of the most bitter and highly publicized custody cases in memory, has been found in Christchurch, New Zealand...
...Foretich's British attorneys obtained a court order instructing Burgess to reveal what she knew about Hilary's whereabouts. The battle then moved to the New Zealand family court when lawyers filed suit for Foretich, who wants to regain custody of his daughter. A judge has appointed a lawyer for Hilary and ordered that the child be examined by an expert in child sexual abuse. The judge also ordered Foretich, who is believed to be headed for New Zealand, to stay away from his daughter and her grandparents. They have been granted interim custody and ordered not to leave...
Morgan, now married to federal appeals court Judge Paul Michel, is preparing for another test of wills with Judge Dixon. She is determined to go to New Zealand, where the courts might permit her accusations against Foretich to be aired in open court. But she cannot leave the U.S. unless Dixon gives his permission. It may be Foretich, not Morgan, who gets to see Hilary first...
...trick was to get to them. There are no commercial flights to the continent, and hitching a ride on a ship can take weeks. For associate editor Michael Lemonick, months of planning paid off last December, when he climbed aboard a military C-130 transport bound from New Zealand for McMurdo Station, a U.S. research base on Ross Island in Antarctica...