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Teen Survives Jump From Golden Gate Bridge

A 17-year-old high school student from Sonoma County, Calif., is now one of about two dozen people to have survived a 220-foot plunge from the Golden Gate Bridge into San Francisco Bay. According to the California Highway Patrol, the teen, a junior at Windsor High School, was on a field trip with his classmates and...

California Braces Calmly for Waves From Tsunami

Waves from the Japanese earthquake are expected to hit California shortly after 11 a.m. EST, but it won't be the stuff of Hollywood blockbusters. Meteorologists estimate that Northern California will be struck first at 11:16 a.m. with waves between 3 and 7 feet high, with the swell subsiding as it moves down the coast. It...

Jack LaLanne's 10 Strangest Stunts

Few people have taken physical fitness as seriously as Jack LaLanne -- and few have taken it to the extremes he did. LaLanne died Jan. 23 of respiratory failure due to pneumonia at the age of 96 at his home in Morro Bay on California's central coast. LaLanne, who ate healthfully and exercised daily up until the end,...

The Trillion-Dollar Deficit of 2010: How Huge Is It, Really?

(Oct. 15) -- If you stacked the number of dollar bills in this year's federal deficit -- 1,290,000,000,000 written out -- you would be nearly a quarter of the way to the moon. But that's not as stratospheric as last year, when the red ink amounted to $1.4 trillion. Still, despite over a $100 billion decrease from 2009's...

At 96, Jack LaLanne Says He's Still a 'Nut'

(Sept. 23) -- When you're turning 96 and still as fit as a fiddle, people are invariably going to ask your secret. Ask fitness pioneer Jack LaLanne his secret for a long life, and you'll get a variety of answers. One day, he might say, "I can't die. It's bad for business." On another, he'll say, "I can't afford to die....

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05/30/12 Magnificent bridge has needlessly ugly blemish Source: The Courier-Journal - Louisville KY As San Francisco hosts a citywide birthday party for the Golden Gate Bridges 75th anniversary, one thing that wont be celebrated is the fact that the bridge continues to be the worlds top suicide site.
05/29/12 Golden Gate Bridge 75th Fireworks Source: NBC - NBC 11 - San Francisco CA MAY 27: Fireworks explode over the Golden Gate Bridge on May 27, 2012 in San Francisco, California.
05/29/12 Golden Gate Bridge parties on for 75th Source: San Francisco Chronicle - San Francisco CA Amid the weekend's glorious fanfare for the Golden Gate Bridge's 75th celebrations, one guest admitted that it took him 50 years to appreciate the majesty of this Art Deco beauty.
05/29/12 Golden Gate Bridge: What's wrong with trying to... Source: Los Angeles Times - Los Angeles CA Many of those commenting on my May 25 Op-Ed , which called for a suicide barrier on the Golden Gate Bridge, seem to believe that people should be allowed to kill themselves without any preventative measures.
05/29/12 Tuesday Morning Roundup: Remembering The Other Golden... Source: SFist - San Francisco CA Chuck Nevius celebrates the other Golden Gate Bridge â the one in Mulvane, Kansas.