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Until he managed to fly�3 miles at 500 ft. for 25 min. in a hot-air balloon he had fashioned using propane tanks, safely maneuvering a balloon for long distances had been pretty much a fantasy. In the wake of that 1960 flight, aeronautics engineer Paul (Ed) Yost, the first to use the relatively cheap propane-burner system for heat, became the father of modern hot-air ballooning, now a popular global sport. Among the many firsts he achieved: a 1963 trip with a partner across the English Channel...
...mentions Iraq in his stump speech. He talks - well, offers one sentence - about the challenge of "global Islamic jihad." And because he doesn't dwell on it, his audiences don't. On a late-May New Hampshire swing, he cruised through two performances before the word Iraq perforated his balloon. And then it was a high school student, who simply asked, "What would you do about Iraq...
...there much that Sderot can do to protect itself. Advanced anti-rocket laser systems are both prohibitively expensive and hardly foolproof against Qassams, which cost next to nothing to build. So, the town makes do with a basic early warning system involving a surveillance balloon moored on its outskirts providing a view over Gaza, and alarms that sound when there is a rocket launch. This gives residents about 15 seconds to take the nearest available cover. The city opened its bomb shelters on Tuesday for the first time since the 1967 war, 40 years ago. And the city school system...
...occasional beach ball, water balloon, and crowd-surfer passed overhead, undergrads in plastic ponchoes sang and danced Saturday in a muddy Tercentenary Theater to ’90s hits such as “Semi-Charmed Life” and “How’s It Going...
...kind of loop, leading to its title—which, the author is quick to admit, is a bit “clunky.” “Might as well call it ‘I Am a Lead Balloon,’” he writes.The author is a multilingual Physics Ph. D and an eminent professor, but you wouldn’t know it from his writing style. “Strange Loop” reads like a fascinating series of accessible musings, but still successfully argues new, concrete points every step...