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The rising popularity of extreme sports bespeaks an eagerness on the part of millions of Americans to participate in activities closer to the metaphorical edge, where danger, skill and fear combine to give weekend warriors and professional athletes alike a sense of pushing out personal boundaries. According to American Sports...
When Eliasch took over Head, which makes racquets, skis and diving equipment, the Austrians feared he would shut the factories there. Instead, he automated production, invested in engineering and simplified product lines, concentrating on high-end gear. "It costs roughly the same to manufacture expensive and cheap products," says Eliasch...
Roger Rosenblatt's commentary on the extreme sport of base jumping [ESSAY, July 19] included a reference to the death of a man who parachuted from the top of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park. The correct spelling of the jumper's name is Frank Gambalie III. Also, he did...
"Oh geez!" groans Linda Oberdorfer, a delicate chocolate-and- almond cookie crumbling in her hands. Oberdorfer, manager of direct sales for magazine publisher Rodale Press in Emmaus, Pa., is running out of time. She's part of an eight-member sales group that is seconds away from diving into a...
Of 26 pilots the four networks announced for fall, none has a minority star, an embarrassment that led the same TV executives who unveiled the vanilla slate to issue chagrined statements, point to minority characters on existing shows and scramble to make last-minute cast additions. But the issue is...