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Philippe Petit is alive and well and still walking the wires

A man dressed in black from top hat to canvas slippers strode through Washington Square Park Sunday afternoon, wheeling a unicycle and lugging a leather knapsack loaded with wooden pins.

After scanning the crowd of picnic-table chess players and college students splayed across the grass, he unpacked his bag and promptly began to juggle. Off in a shady corner, he attracted little notice -...

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