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Fatigue, chills and dwindling fuel supplies forgotten, two men in a balloon high above the Atlantic have the wind at their backs and their eyes firmly on the prize. Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones' balloon, Breitling Orbiter 3, rose gently toward the heavens 100 miles north of Puerto Rico Thursday afternoon. At 32,670 feet they were swept along at a brisk 88 miles an hour by the surging jet stream, which they hope will carry them to Africa and into the history books. The pair set out on March 1 and have already come closer than anyone to realizing...
...Wednesday, it must be Cuba... The communist island said it would let the Breitling Orbiter 3 gas and hot air balloon pass over its airspace today en route to a world record. Bertrand Piccard of Switzerland and Britain's Brian Jones--the latest heirs of an aeronautical tradition that began in 1783 when a sheep, a duck and a rooster first went up in a Montgolfier balloon at Versailles France--are planning to land in North Africa on Saturday, and become the first men to circumnavigate the globe nonstop in a balloon. The Breitling, which headed south and then east...
Although there was limited flooding in the basements of Bertrand and Eliot Halls in Cabot House and the main section of Currier House, belongings in student storage were not affected, Ketelhohn said...
Bowing to the district's large Haitian constituency, Kennedy led the attempt to restore that nation's exiled president, Jean-Bertrand Aristede, to power in the 1980s, O'Connor said...
...DIED. BERTRAND GOLDBERG, 84, bold architect who redefined Chicago's skyline in the 1960s with the corncob-shaped towers of Marina City; in Chicago...