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Parachute jumping
2005-11-07 02:16:21 


(Reuters)

BASE jumpers parachute from the China Central Television Transmission Tower, the tallest building in China's capital Beijing, November 5, 2005.

Twenty-five multi-national BASE jumpers leaped from the middle part (240m) of the 405 metre-high tower in Beijing, its first time to hold the base-jumping event. BASE stands for Building, Antenna, Span and Earth.

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