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...during a late-December trip around the world. Make the Chinese government angry and -- maybe the greatest accomplishment of all -- get away with it. That's the scorecard so far for Richard Branson, as China bowed to pressure from the British government late Tuesday and granted the entrepreneur and balloonist extraordinaire permission to fly over its airspace.?Branson and his two balloon-mates, American millionaire Steve Fossett and Per Lindstrand of Sweden, then drifted placidly -- if more slowly than they'd like -- over the terra-cotta warriors of the walled city of Xi'an, about 550?miles southwest of Beijing...
...stories about swaggering entrepreneurs very much like himself. He put more emphasis on stock-market advice and edgy corporate pieces and used charm, guile and arm twisting to ratchet ad sales. He also promoted the hell out of his magazine, becoming the most influential Harley biker, hot-air balloonist and Faberge-egg collector...
...days Time it took millionaire balloonist Steve Fossett to sail 15,202 miles on his failed attempt to circle the earth...
DIED. ALEX RITCHIE, 53, intrepid British balloonist whose airborne acrobatics--and buoyancy of spirit--last year averted mogul Richard Branson's balloon team's death by deflation; from injuries suffered during a parachute jump; in London...
...these are Branson odds. He has amassed a billion-dollar fortune by doing things that business strategists suggest he shouldn't: he targets well-established industries with entrenched competitors--airlines, records, retailing--and then attacks head on. In the process, the affable balloonist garners huge amounts of publicity from an unending assortment of goofball stunts and daredevil deeds...