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ANNE M. DONNELLAN, PH.D. PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO San Diego...
TYLER SNYDER, Oakland A's fan who caught the ball Barry Bonds hit for his 714th home run--to tie Babe Ruth at No. 2 on the all-time list--when asked if he would give the ball to the San Francisco slugger...
...debate over whether to install a barrier on San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, the world's most popular place for suicides, is an abstraction for most people. But it is all too real for Kevin Hines. Of the more than 1,200 people who have jumped off the bridge, Hines is one of only 26 to have plummeted the 220 ft. into San Francisco Bay, hit the water at 75 mph and somehow survived. As soon as his hands left the bridge's railing, he says he thought, "I don't want...
...movie, The Bridge, which premiered at this year's Tribeca Film Festival in New York City, captures a handful of jumpers as they launch themselves over the railing. His aim, Steel told the San Francisco Chronicle, was to challenge audiences to "talk and think about suicide in profoundly different ways." (Whatever its intentions, some critics have denounced it as reminiscent of a snuff film.) The film opened the same week that the bridge board got the final funding for a $2 million, two-year study into design concepts for a barrier, as well as research into a barrier's environmental...
...almost three decades later, as the bells toll for all those who weren't prevented from jumping, the outlook for getting a barrier built is still as cloudy as San Francisco...