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I was at a picnic where people played a game--a game in which they attempted to flay each other using hand-held metal hooks, stripping skin away from their ribs and spines.
Now, 12 years later, the aviation pioneer is picking cactus spines out of his face, the latest casualty of the world's most pointless competition.
In an op-ed piece Monday in the conservative tabloid Daily Mail , Oxford University historian Mark Almond said the arrest reeks of hypocrisy and will "not send shivers down the spines of other dictators.
As for the notion that Bulworth the politicized B-Boy could send shivers down the spines of the Murdochs and Perelmans of the world.
The route from Chaves to Bragança is particularly attractive: the road winds over mountain passes, through pine forests, and past the spines of bare, rocky hillsides.