Sponsor
Support Weekend America with your Amazon.com purchases
Search Amazon.com:
Keywords:
  • News/Talk
  • Music
  • Entertainment
Weekend America home page
Weekend America Primary Navigation
Play Consumed
Get Involved

How did your life collide with the headlines in 2007?
Iraq, the subprime crisis, Facebook, immigration, oil prices - 2007 had no shortage of hefty headlines. We'd like to hear about how these and other major news events of the past year affected you. Where did your life collide with the news in 2007?

What's your holiday performance story?
The office talent show, the neighborhood caroling posse, the school pageant ... At holiday time we often sing, dance, and dress as shepherds. Did you bloom in the warmth of your audience's adulation, or freeze up like the snowman you'd rather be building? Did your holiday performance change your life or that of someone close to you?

Section Bottom
Browse
Section Bottom
Browse
The Cutting Edge of Rollercoasters July 28, 2007E-mail this story E-mail this story
listenListen (real)   
Coaster
slideshow
Weekend America's Krissy Clark takes us into the secret world of thrill ride research and development to find out what's the next big thing in thrill rides. She learns that the amusement park arms race is headed in a new direction. It's not quite as hair-raising as she thought.

Special Web Audio

Joe Rohde, of Walt Disney Imagineering, on the ancient need humans have for thrill (0:47).

Rohde, on his last business trip to Mexico (for what must be the coolest job ever), doing research for his next attraction (0:25).

MP3