Demolition Man
Article :
August/September 2006
"Business is booming," says Bill Moore -- then he blows up a stadium to prove it.
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Drag King
Article :
Oct/Nov 2006
Dave Grubnic is blasé about piloting 8,000 horses at 330 mph -- it's trading that really gives him the heebie-jeebies
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Chemical Brother
Article :
April/May 2007
Spilled some toxic waste into a wildlife sanctuary or children’s playground? Chris Wagner is the man to call
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Flight Risk
Article :
June/July 2007
Air Force test pilot Brett Vance takes his F-16 up to God’s anteroom, then kills the engine. Certifiable tough guy — or just certifiable?
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Diver Down
Article :
Feb/March 2007
Every day on the job, Michael Bellardi is in over his head
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The Iceman Cometh
Article :
June/July 2006
Antarctic scientist Ralph Harvey is one seriously cool customer.
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Weather Man
Article :
April/May 2006
Storm chaser Warren Faidley nearby? Strap yourself to something solid.
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Call of the Wild
Article :
October/November 2005
Guy Grieve traded a comfortable workaday life for an Alaskan cabin,
wolf attacks and whiskey -- which makes him only two-thirds crazy.
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Double Trouble
Article :
August/September 2005
Darlene Ava Williams risks her life so Pamela Anderson and Britney Spears don't have to.
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Jungle Boogie
Article :
April/May 2005
Snake hunter Bryan Stuart gets medieval on killer cobras
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Burning Man
Article :
February/March 2005
Jim Bellar routinely goes whoop-ass on Arizona's worst wildfires
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Fire in the Hole
Article :
December 2004/January 2005
Circus geek Wilbert Behn turns up the heat -- and gets jiggy with the big cats
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Risky Business
Article :
October/November 2004
Skyscraper jockey Tom Silliman on fear, danger and close calls
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Cojones Q&A: Munitions Man
Article :
November 2008
How Rich Dugger clears land mines the same way he trades: very carefully.
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Munitions Man
Article :
November/December 2008
Rich Dugger clears land mines the same way he trades: very carefully.
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Cojones Q&A: Elevated Risk
Article :
October 2008
How Thorsten Möwes scales great heights to keep the world's most iconic structures as clean as a short-seller's conscience.
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Elevated Risk
Article :
October 2008
Thorsten Möwes scales great heights to keep the world's most iconic structures as clean as a short-seller's conscience.
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Hot Commodity
Article :
September 2008
For volcanologist Jim Kauahikaua, dealing with big blowups is all in a day's work.
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Brian Hunter, Comeback Kid?
Article :
May 2008
How the 33-year-old trader blamed for the multibillion-dollar collapse of monster energy hedge fund Amaranth came roaring back in the latest quarter on the same kind of gas bet that proved his catastrophic undoing in 2006. No word yet on whether the kid with the killer cojones made enough to defray the $30 million fine the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is still trying to squeeze out of him (this, for allegedly manipulating gas prices around the time of Amaranth’s implosion). But we can hook you up with the story of why, this time, Lady Luck decided to give him a much-needed break.
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Cojones Q&A: Branch Manager
Article :
April 2008
How high-altitude lumberjack Mark Standley risks his life to keep your penthouse in fine cabinetry and parquet floors.
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Cojones Q&A
Article :
April/May 2008
High-altitude lumberjack Mark Standley risks his life to keep your penthouse in fine cabinetry and parquet floors.
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Cojones Q&A: Predator’s Ball
Article :
February 2008
Jeremiah Sullivan sizes up the world’s most dangerous sharks – and says “bite me.”
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Predator's Ball
Article :
February/March 2008
Jeremiah Sullivan sizes up the world’s most dangerous sharks — and says “bite me.”
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Foul!
Article :
December 2007
Wow, anybody else think it’s damn weird that while nary a top-ranked Wall Street analyst has had the cojones to downgrade a single company in the securities industry to “sell” this year, the subprime debacle rages on, driving corporate profits into deeper doldrums? Inside this grave new world.
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Watch List: Precious Commodities
Article :
September 2007
We personally scoured the initial public offerings at this year's international watch festivals to unearth these: the top new timepieces of 2007.
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General Electric
Article :
October 2007
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Cojones Q&A: Downward Trend
Article :
August 2007
Find out how competitive cliff diver Frederic Weill stays equally adept at flinging himself into the markets. (Let’s just say trading isn’t wholly unlike hitting the water at 55 mph…)
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Downward Trend
Article :
September 2007
Competitive cliff diver Frederic Weill is equally adept at flinging himself into the markets. Look out below!
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The Cojones Of A Bear
Article :
July 2007
You’ve gotta’ give them credit for chutzpah. Even as it continues to reel from its post-subprime-meltdown meltdown, Bear Stearns Structured Equity Products – yeah, we said structured – had it in them to launch a batch of exchange-traded notes.
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Cojones: Flight Risk
Article :
June 2007
Air Force test pilot Brett Vance takes his F-16 up to God’s anteroom, then kills the engine. Certifiable tough guy — or just certifiable?
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Friday Levity: If You Can’t Earn It, Just Take It
Article :
June 2007
Our latest patron saint of this mantra is Azia Kim, the femme fatale who failed to get into Stanford, but decided to attend classes there anyway...for eight months. Now that she’s been caught, all we can say is we love your style, Azzie, but as any trader can attest, cojones only go so far. What you need now is a plan B.
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Precious Commodities
Article :
September 2007
We scoured the initial public offerings at this year’s international watch festivals to unearth these: the top new timepieces of 2007.
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Turbo Charged
Article :
December 2006/January 2007
Don't talk to Idar Vollvik about eggs or baskets. Going all in is what powers the legend of the Turbo Trader.
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