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...scuba diver, I have had frequent and always exhilarating encounters with several species of sharks--sometimes as many as 30. As an astronomer, I have commonly and excitedly viewed dozens of beautiful shooting stars. Being bitten by a shark or struck by a meteorite would be extremely serious and possibly fatal. Yet given the probability, it appears that the greater danger for our anxiety-prone society is not in the seas or the stars but in ourselves. If we are overcome by the imagined risk of unlikely death, we may miss the elusive chance to live fully. (THE REV.) WILLIAM...
...their travel plans and way of doing business: Smaller, more private meetings in secure, out-of-the-way spots. Perhaps they should fortify an island (Elba? One of the Dry Tortugas? Or someplace in the Easter Islands?) for their conferences. And the demonstrators will slip onto the beach wearing scuba gear, the way that James Bond used...
...living, struggling to support families and pay mortgages while this guy goofs off on mountains, risking not only his life but also the lives of his human seeing-eye guides. I never doubted for a second that disabled people are capable of doing fun stuff like skiing and scuba diving, so I don't find it newsworthy that this guy can put one foot in front of the other at high altitudes. PAUL RAMSEY Virginia, Minn...
...POST Great scuba diving, but too many U.S. college kids on vacation get wild and need bailing...
...Blairs' motivations are vastly more complex than bragging rights. They have scuba dived in the Red Sea and sky dived in New Zealand. But they began to re-evaluate their future as they watched their parents' once zestful lives become circumscribed by age. Jim, whose father died last year, has partly retired from his thriving commercial-development company, and the couple wants to spend more time with friends and family, including three grandsons. Says Donna: "All of a sudden, we're the older generation. We began to ask how we wanted to spend the days we have left...