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...plane conquers the English Channel with solar power...
With that, the Solar Challenger continued its climb to 2,000 ft. and headed northwest toward the English Channel. Five hours and 23 minutes later, after a flight of 230 miles at speeds no more than 47 m.p.h., Ptacek touched down at Manston Royal Air Force Base on the southeastern coast of England some 20 miles north of Dover. His odyssey might have made Icarus drop with envy. In a historic feat, Challenger had managed to cross the Channel powered only by the glinting rays...
...diaphanous, lightweight craft, the Gossamer Condor, became the first plane to complete a 1.15-mile, figure-eight course on human power alone (generated by a bicycle-like set of pedals). Two years later MacCready's Gossamer Albatross made the first such muscle-powered crossing over the English Channel...
...year ago this week, Media Maverick Ted Turner launched his Atlanta-based Cable News Network, a pioneering 24-hour, all-news channel that feeds cable systems nationwide via satellite. A few days later, local station WPIX-TV in New York City started Independent Network News, using a satellite to bounce a daily prime-time national news show to local stations across the country. Says INN News Director John Corporon: "The bird has changed all the rules so that the independents can play in the game." Indeed, industry experts say that CNN and, to a lesser extent, INN, are largely responsible...
...Enchaîné reported that Giscard had accepted $250,000 worth of diamonds as gifts from the Central African Republic's butcherous Emperor Bokassa, Giscard's reaction was roughly, "So what?" Of course, the French have a tradition of Non, je ne regrette rien. Across the channel, the Duke of Wellington once displayed something of that spirit when an old mistress (a Frenchwoman) threatened to publish all kinds of lurid details about his grace. "Publish and be damned!" the Iron Duke responded, or words to that effect. Grover Cleveland ("Ma, Ma, where's my pa?/ Gone...