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Fear Sells Products in New York

Nov. 15, 2002
CBS News
DAN RATHER, CBS ANCHOR: Today's FBI warning that a major new terror attack may be coming soon to this country, will likely boost the climate of fear that drives demand for terror-protection products... Read the whole story.

Attacks Prompt Many to Ponder Means of Escape From Buildings

Sept. 24, 2001
The Wall Street Journal
There is no easy way to evacuate skyscrapers in an emergency, and the attacks on the World Trade Center have prompted many people to explore innovative escape routes... Read the whole story.

Fear, Mother of Invention; Airport-Friendly Bras and Other Timely Offerings

Oct. 25, 2001
The Washington Post
In Michigan, meanwhile, a company has started selling parachutes to people who live and work in high-rises... Read the whole story.

Sport parachutes are being sold as lifesavers.

Oct. 19, 2001
The Washington Times
The dangerous and largely illegal practice of parachuting from high structures is now being marketed as a life-saving technique for those trapped inside burning high-rise buildings... Read the whole story.

Executivechute: Safety hits new heights.

Nov. 5, 2001
The Dallas Morning News
Not one of those "golden parachute" retirement packages enjoyed by high-priced executives. But an actual parachute, useful for jumping out of tall buildings in case of fire or terrorist attack... Read the whole story.

Disaster Dividends

Dec. 3, 2001
U.S. News & World Report
Within an hour of the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, the telephones started ringing at Garrett Metal Detectors in Garland, Texas... Read the whole story.

Round parachute being sold to rescue people from skyscrapers.

Oct. 18, 2001
Tribune News Service
Several months ago, a Chicago executive asked John Rivers, a producer of ultralight aircraft, to create a parachute for jumping off tall buildings during emergencies... Read the whole story.

The World As We Know It -- The Exit of Last Resort

Oct. 11, 2001
United Press International
The Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center forced an instant choice on some victims: being burned alive or leaping to one's death... Read the whole story.

Overseas corporate sales propel invention since 9/11

The Kalamazoo Gazette
Virtually every high-rise in the world has sprinkler systems and fire extinguishers, so John Rivers reasons they should also have parachutes... Read the whole story.

Coping with fear: Terrorists have thrust new insecurity into American life. Americans are handling it in many different ways.

Oct. 30, 2001
The Christian Science Monitor
Businessmen who once pined for the penthouse corner office are now buying parachutes designed for anxious executives. People who spent little time pondering life's meaning have found themselves turning more to prayer. ... Read the whole story.

PRIVATE PARACHUTES - Entrepreneur designs for high rise disasters

The Detroit Free Press
Several months ago, a Chicago executive asked John Rivers, a producer of ultralight aircraft, to create a parachute for jumping off tall buildings during emergencies... Read the whole story.

Exit of Last Resort

Oct. 10, 2001
United Press International
The Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center forced an instant choice on some victims: being burned alive or leaping to one's death. With those horrifying images fresh in the public's mind, a manufacturer of recreational light aircraft has developed a parachute... Read the whole story.

Parachutes, Clear Envelopes Booming

Nov. 5, 2001
United Press International
A Michigan firm that makes parachutes designed for use from tall buildings and two Wisconsin companies that make clear envelopes say business has increased markedly since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks... Read the whole story.

Global security alerts prompt a gadget craze.

Nov. 1, 2001
The Evening Standard (London, England)
If war is the mother of all invention, terrorism must run it a close second. Patents offices in Europe and America have been deluged with applications for new gadgets and gizmos from budding inventors in the wake of the 11 September attacks... Read the whole story.

Unusual businesses benefitting from September 11th attacks, while still other businesses are taking advantage of people's uneasiness

Nov. 23, 2001
NPR - Morning Edition
The phone has also been ringing at a company called Executivechute in Three Rivers, Michigan. The company makes parachutes designed specifically for high-rise office buildings to be used by residents above the 10th floor... Read the whole story.

What Americans are doing to feel safer since the attacks of September 11

Nov. 10, 2001
NPR - Talk of the Nation
Well, it's a personalized parachute that, in the case where there's no other way to escape and you've got no other choice--this, again, is the option of last resort--that you could put this chute on and you've got one last option... Read the whole story.

Commentary: Gaining control of your impending sense of doom

Nov. 4, 2001
NPR
ou're trying to stop watching CNN. All they say is that something is happening but they don't know what. You're trying not to be scared of the mail. You're trying to live normally, whatever that is, while on high alert, whatever that is... Read the whole story.

New [pounds sterling]500 parachute to escape skyscrapers.

Oct. 11, 2001
The Evening Standard (London, England)
Property billionaire Donald Trump is said to be among those inquiring about the " Executivechute", developed by a company in Michigan which says it has received dozens of inquiries since 11 September... Read the whole story.

LIVING TODAY: Issues of Modern Living

Nov. 6, 2001
United Press International
John Rivers said he began developing the "executivechute" long before the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, but didn't do much with it because he didn't think anyone would buy it... Read the whole story.

Destiny's life preserver of the sky

Oct. 24, 2001
MiBiz Southwest
Destiny Aircraft Corporation has unveiled anew production that is attracting international attention- the Executivechute. It is a parachute, that people can use to jump out of high rise buildings - a "life preserver of the sky"... Read the whole story.

On T-shirts and toilet paper, the face of Osama bin Laden is wanted.

Oct. 15, 2001
Tribune News Service
Other companies say they are helping people handle their fear by marketing terrorism-specific products. Executivechute Corp. in Three Rivers, Mich., markets 7-pound parachutes for employees in high-rise buildings who may need a quick escape. Read the whole story.

News At A Glance

Nov. 6, 2001
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Just weeks after the terrorist attacks that hit the World Trade Center, the "Executivechute" was designed, tested and ready to go, according to Anatoly Cohen, managing director of Apco Aviation... Read the whole story.

Michigan firm sells parachute for high-rises

In the wake of the terrorist attacks, a company is selling it's powered parachutes as a "last resort" escape for people who live in high-rise buildings... Read the whole story.