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Nicknamed the Rebel Billionaire for his daredevil stunts, the Virgin megabrand founder was just dubbed Citizen of the Year by the U.N. for his eco-advocacy. Richard Branson will now take your questions...
...balance your desire for daredevil adventure with the risk of death? -Mengqiao Wang, Ithaca, N.Y.As an adventurer, if I try to do something man has not done before-like cross the Atlantic in a hot-air balloon-I try to protect against the downside. I make sure I have covered as many eventualities as I can. In the end, though, you've got to take calculated risks; otherwise, you're going to sit in mothballs all day and do nothing. Life is a helluva lot more fun if you say yes rather than...
...playing rugby her freshman year. Stenson says her activities in college are a complete change from the ones she did in high school—freestyle skiing, waterpolo, and volunteering with an EMS team. But one thing about Stenson has not changed—her reputation as a daredevil. Stenson said that she has broken 13 bones, has had nine stitches, and has had 20 teeth pulled. “I come up with crazy ideas and go through with them,” she said. “It makes everything more interesting and more...
...those who grew up watching him on TV, Evel Knievel was much more than a self-promoting daredevil with 38 broken bones to his credit: he was a flawed superhero. Sure, the motorbiker's bravado was insane; he jumped cars, buses, canyons and the fountains at Las Vegas' Caesars Palace (above)--a feat that landed him in a coma for a month. He also liked to drink and was once jailed for assaulting a writer with a baseball bat. Yet whether he cleared his intended target or behaved nicely was beside the point. Evel, who changed the spelling...
...Born in Butte, Montana, Oct. 17, 1938, Knievel made a name for himself for his daredevil feats, jumping rows of vehicles, natural chasms and other obstacles. He claimed to have broken every bone in his body at least twice...