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...Daredevil Fire Fighter As our Milestone on Paul (Red) Adair noted [Aug. 23], the fire fighter was unequaled in his specialty of extinguishing dangerous oil-field conflagrations. More than 40 years ago, as a huge fire burned in the French Sahara, we described Adair's expertise...
...during the Great Depression, and as his expertise grew, his name became virtually synonymous with the profession. At age 76, he and his Texas-based Red Adair Co. capped hundreds of Kuwaiti oil wells left burning at the end of the Gulf War. Adair's exploits earned him a daredevil reputation, to which he once remarked: "A daredevil's reckless, and that ain't me. The devil's down in that hole, and I've seen what he can do and I'm not darin...
Ever since the advent of skateboarding in the 1960s and '70s, the sport has been identified with daredevil adolescent boys. But the face of the game is changing. Look closelyunder that helmet might be your daughter, sister or even mother. There were 1.9 million women skateboarders last year, according to the National Sporting Goods Association, an increase of more than 25% since 1999. And studies by research firm Board-Trac found that in 2002, 26% of all skateboarders were female, up from just 7.5% in 2001. Skateboard manufacturers are catering to the new rollers. Elements is releasing a new signature...
Even ex-fiance Jennifer Lopez couldn't tell when this guy was bluffing. So it should come as no surprise that Daredevil's seven-card stud, BEN AFFLECK, beat out nearly 90 other players to win first place and $356,400 at a major California poker tournament last week. His victory in the $10,000 buy-in event earned the avid gambler a seat in the World Poker Tour Championship, to be held next April in Las Vegas. Affleck outlasted a former world champ and fellow action hero Tobey Maguire at the tourney in Commerce, Calif., to "become a respected...
...hits and flops, though fewer of each than Ben. Same with Edward Norton. They all bound from action picture to indie, as Affleck has--from Jerry Bruckheimer (Armageddon, Pearl Harbor) to Kevin Smith (Chasing Amy, Dogma, Jersey Girl), from starring in potential franchise pictures (The Sum of All Fears, Daredevil) to doing cameos in films by friends...