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SEATTLE (AP) -- A man who apparently wiggled through gaps in safety fencing threatened to jump from the landmark Space Needle on Friday but was talked back to safety after three hours. The man alternately walked and sat on the outer ring of the observation deck - 520 feet above the ground - while police negotiators sat on the inner ring, talking to him. He finally agreed to put on a safety harness, and a fire department rescue team helped him crawl back along a support beam, police said. The man, believed to be from Seattle and about 30 years...