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...modern-day craze had its origins in 1979, when members of Oxford University's Dangerous Sports Club, having read about the land divers, put on tuxedoes and top hats and dropped from the Golden Gate Bridge. Among early devotees were two brothers, John and Peter Kockelman of Palo Alto, Calif., who in 1987 began jumping from bridges over river gorges in the Sierras. Recognizing the sport's commercial potential, they quit their jobs as engineers and in May 1988 opened Bungee Adventures in Palo Alto. Recently the Kockelmans introduced hot-air balloons as jumping platforms. Every week 100 jumpers ranging...
...another woman, Victoria Sanchez, does just that, catching a bus for the hour-long trip to Lyndon Baines Johnson General, a new brick public hospital that delivers 15,000 babies each year. Inside, its long halls reveal a modern-day baby factory. Low-birth-weight babies, smaller than Cabbage Patch dolls, crowd nurseries designed for big healthy babies. In the intensive-care unit, doctors and nurses handle about a thousand babies annually, twice as many infants as they should, according to the unit's medical director Dr. Joseph Garcia-Prats...
...often confronted by people who think that Judaism is nothing more than a set of moral values that are the precursors of modern liberalism. They locate the Jewish tradition more in the tradition of Kant and Rawls than in Moses and Hillel. The truth is that modern-day Jews who form such a large part of the mainstream of philosophers and liberal thinkers can no more lay claim to Jewish tradition than Friedrich Nietzsche could to Lutheranism...
Infant mortality plagues the nation like a modern-day plague...
Dismaying though the financial trends concerning Japan may be, economics alone cannot explain the current media attitude any more than the immigration levels of the early 1900s could explain the Nippon hysteria of those years. But modern-day Japan is hardly a suitable candidate for press pity. American reporters have a duty to be tough minded in their exploration of Japanese business practices. Yet publications have all too frequently reached for easy headlines and analyses that evoke some of the worse aspects of the yellow- peril era. That is unfortunate. For, to the extent that coverage of Japanese business...