WOMEN IN PURSUIT OF THRILLING VACATIONS.

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Are more women ditching sunbathing and Lollygagging at the beach in favor of skydiving, bungee jumping, and other blood-pumping, adrenaline-rushing, thrill-seeking vacations? "What I've seen is that more women are getting involved in thrill-seeking, period," indicates psychologist Frank Farley, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pa., who has studied thrill-seekers for decades and developed the term "Type T personality."

"People used to say it's biological, that men naturally took more risks than women. But I've always said it's the social opportunities and social restraints that have affected women's risk-taking." With...