Air apparent

The Skyslide, an acrophobe's worst nightmare -- a glass slide attached to the tallest building west of the Mississippi -- just opened in above Los Angeles this weekend. And it'll cost you $25 to get those precious few thrill-seeking seconds down a chute suspended nearly 1,000 feet in the air.

"When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity." -- Napoleon Bonaparte