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Do amusement parks ride roughshod over safety?
From Hindu
Do amusement parks ride roughshod over safety? CHENNAI: It might be a thrilling feeling to come hurtling down a roller-coaster ride at 100 km an hour or ride the waves on a jet-ski at breakneck speed, but what makes amusement park rides so exhilarating also makes them so dangerous. There is no question that the amusement park industry in Chennai is booming: the number of fun-seekers at the city's parks rose by 15 per cent last year, with Chennai's four big theme parks receiving close to 60...
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JAN
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An industry unregulated and unchecked
From Hindu
In the U.S. state of California, home to one of the largest amusement park industries in the world, a park has to have a State inspection every time it installs a new ride. The amusement park, however, claims that most parks have "adequate" safety measures in place. At large parks such as Disney Land and Six Flags in the U.S., lifeguards have to pass training programmes on administering first aid before they can be hired, and they are also put through frequent surprise safety audits by...
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JAN
28
Race and the Clinton ploy
From Louisiana Weekly
Jesse Jackson's conference in January of 1992 and chewed out everybody for not rejecting Black Rap singer, Sister Souljah when she said that if the police killed Blacks, maybe there should be a week when Blacks killed the police. Baltimore Journalist, Jack Germond's book Mad As Hell came out and he had interviewed Clinton staff, which told him that was a deliberate strategy to get the Reagan Democrats (blue-collar Democrats who had gone over to Reagan in the 1980s) to come back to the party...
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JAN
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Do amusement parks ride roughshod over safety? City Pulse
From Hindu
Do amusement parks ride roughshod over safety? CHENNAI: It might be a thrilling feeling to come hurtling down a roller-coaster ride at 100 km an hour or ride the waves on a jet-ski at breakneck speed, but what makes amusement park rides so exhilarating also makes them so dangerous. There is no question that the amusement park industry in Chennai is booming: the number of fun-seekers at the city's parks rose by 15 per cent last year, with Chennai's four big theme parks receiving close to 60...
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JAN
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The Real Surreal World
From PopMatters
Why are the most visceral, defining moments in our life often perceived as unreal or dream-like? Ferris wheel ride but that peculiar "Hey, it sort of feels like I'm in a movie/TV show/novel" feeling remains the same. The response usually resembles something like this one: "I dunno, it just feels pretty surreal right now. The question is: why does a very real moment feel surreal? Idol will render you unable to sing along to Phil Collins' "Against All Odds" on the radio without the creeping...
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