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Jump street.(Essay)
I'M scared of heights. That's not quite true. I'm scared of falling.
That's why one afternoon a few weeks ago I was left wondering why I was about to climb into an airplane, ride in it for about 20 minutes, then jump out. It was the product of long-running idle talk with a friend--"We should jump out of an airplane sometime"--now gone horribly wrong, or so it seemed to me at the time. We were at a tiny airfield 50 miles outside Washington where for a few hundred bucks they will do you the favor of letting you fall out of one of their airplanes.
You can do a "tandem," a jump where you are tethered to an expert and don't have to do anything except enjoy ...
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- Press release article from: PR Newswire September 16, 2009 700+ words
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