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...long-standing wish to fly aboard the Concorde. During her nearly two-hour specially chartered flight over Britain, she dined on Scottish lobster and Angus beef and sipped her favorite champagne. Then she was strapped into a seat behind the pilot as he accelerated beyond the sound barrier to 1,340 m.p.h. Mum's word: "Incredible...
...time ever and just two more to break 1200. Though the market slowed to a more dawdling pace for more than a year, it came roaring back again last spring. The Dow zipped past 1300 in May, and last week it made history again by crashing through the 1400 barrier. It ended the week...
...truffles for $2,300 per kg at his Paris shop and has seen the Chinese fungus masquerading as the French variety in nearby supermarkets. "The Chinese import is just a flavorless, rubbery black ball." In Italy it's illegal to import or sell the Tuber indicum, although that protective barrier may not last. "With Italy in the E.U., sooner or later the law will be the same for everyone," says Bruno Urbani, a director of Urbani Tartufi, an Umbria-based firm that is the largest exporter of truffles in the world...
...autobiography should carry him effortlessly through the celebrity barrier, though it is not likely that talk-show hosts will draw the usual life-style blather from this tough old rooster. The world he describes is an arena of endless combat where victory means maneuvering behind your opponents and "hammering'em." It happened to Yeager over France, when he was flying his P-51 Mustang and three German fighters jumped him. He parachuted, evaded capture with the help of the underground, and not only made it to England but got the rules bent to allow him back into...
...chance to cohere as a class. The current system values class cohesion over House cohesion, a tradeoff we support. The result of the system is that Harvard first-year students know people in many different Houses sophomore year. The House system, as a result, does not emerge as a barrier to meeting and befriending new people, but rather as an additional community for students to enjoy...