About their problems. They try to find answers for their problems together. For example

make up for  affettirmek, gidermek, telafi etmek, karsilamak

in favour of  lehine

carry out  bitirmek, yerine getirmek, tamamlamak; basarmak

moreover (z.) bundan başka, bundan fazla, üstelik.

longer  fa.artık:adj.daha uzun

short of time:zaman yokluğu

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DANGER FOR THE FUN OF IT
Dennis Joyce is a 30-year-old employee of an electric Company in New York City. To break up the monotonous regularity of his life, he spends many weekends and vacations white-water canoeing. He is one of the growing number of Americans who in recent years have become interested in dangerous sports to fill their leisure hours. Although he has fallen into the river several times, Mr. Joyce has never been hurt himself. Yet he admits he has seen some very serious accidents.

People who take pan in risky sports usually have several things in common. Most are men. They know about the dangers of their sport. And almost all of them look down on usual sports like tennis and golf.

"There's just nothing happening in sports like tennis and golf," said Steve Kaufman, a 44 year-old Manhattan bill collector who scuba dives in his spare time. According to him, the only people who come close to the experience of scuba divers are astronauts "because they're in a totally alien, or foreign, environment, too." Kaufman describes his sport as "a complete isolation from anything that can interfere with your own personal sense of self. Mr. Kaufman said his most dangerous moment as a diver came when he found himself looking at about 800 to 900 sharks. Fortunately, he managed to get out of there really fast.

George Weigel, a 31-year-old carpenter from Pawling, New York, enjoys hang gliding. Although many risk-takers see hang gliding as the most dangerous sport of all, Weigel feels hang gliders just look for some excitement. If says, "it's so thrilling that I think I'll continue hang gliding until I get too old for it. Everything else seems boring compared to it."

According to Dr George Serban, associate professor of clinical psychiatry at New York University most men willingly look for danger in order to prove their masculinity (manhood). "The nature of the male animal is to do dangerous tasks and to confront them and to succeed," Dr Serban said. "When life becomes boring and routine and men do not have a chance for adventure or a chance to prove their masculinity the only other possibility is to do dangerous activities."

Eric D. Rosenfeld, a 43-year-old Manhattan lawyer who has been climbing mountains for 20 years, spoke of the habit-forming nature of his sport. “Like smoking, it is quite addictive. After some time you can't live without a certain amount of risk in your life." In recent years, Mr Rosenfeld started climbing mountains in the Arctic. He compares the mountains in the Arctic with the ones in Europe "In Europe" he sad "there are lines of people waiting to go up sections of mountains,guides walking around, and garbage all over the place. In the Arctic no one's around. There's no such thing as a guide because no one's ever been there." Although several of his friends have died while mountain climbing, Rosenfeld said, "I know that it's risky. But I sit in my law office and tell myself that after 20 years of climbing I'm still here."

The novelty of the sport is what attracted Susan Tripp, a 35-year-old Californian lawyer, to parachute jumping. "I wanted to do something new and unusual. It's not something many people do," Susan said. That is also one of the reasons John Wolcott, a 49-year-old printer from Edison, New Jersey, likes to go hot-air ballooning. "It makes me a hero," he said. At parties, he simply introduces ballooning into the conversation, and he becomes the most popular personality of the party for at least an hour.