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• The world's highest destinations
Inspired by the March 2007 opening of the Grand Canyon Skywalk—a cantilevered, glass-bottomed walkway that lets you peer 4,000 feet down from the tips of your toes to the bottom of the gorge—we've searched high and low (but mainly high) to ...
• Sticky glue out-geckos the geckos
CHICAGO - A new type of dry glue designed to mimic gecko feet is 10 times stickier than the gravity-defying lizards, and three times stickier than other gecko-inspired glues, researchers said on Thursday. “It’s the stickiest dry glue yet,” said ...
• Official: Plane crash near Mt. Everest kills 18
The visibility at the airport was about 1,310 feet, just enough for the aircraft's landing, he said. The tiny Lukla airport, little more than a runway carved from the side of the Himalayas at an altitude of 9,200 feet, is an important jumping-off ...
• I’m a coward,’ claims Mount Everest skydiver
Ask Jane Dougall what it’s like to jump out of an airplane at 29,500 feet with Mount Everest and the vast spread of the Himalayas below you, and she’ll tell you it was incredible, spectacular, thrilling, the experience of a lifetime. Now ask her ...
• Billy Graham out of hospital after fall at home
The accident happened when Graham bent over to pet Sam, his golden retriever, and the dog got under his feet, Graham spokesman Larry Ross said. "He's a loyal dog. He follows Mr. Graham wherever he goes," Ross said. The dog was a gift two years ago ...