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...life-form, a series without a real author. J.K. Rowling conceived Harry Potter on a crowded, four-hour-delayed train trip between Manchester and London. The 39 Clues was born about three years ago in a corporate boardroom. Levithan runs a weekly "idea group" at Scholastic - "basically, about a dozen editors get together every week, and we just brainstorm ideas," he explains. Amy and Dan were one of those brainstorms. (Originally the series was called The 79 Clues before Levithan and co. decided to scale it back, probably wisely.) The 39 Clues is overseen by a team of a dozen...
...Ridiculous" stunts were good and "sick" ones even better at the first ever free running world championships, held Sept. 3 inside a London performing arts center. Blending running, jumping and climbing with all manner of vaults, spins and flips, nearly two dozen competitors from 18 countries took on the specially created course, each with their own routine and soundtrack...
...written even as events continued to unfold at a rapid speed, giving the final section a jumbled feel that is at odds with the more measured bulk of the text. More serious, though, are the flaws in Chinoy's analysis. Chinoy has visited North Korea more than a dozen times in the past two decades and is clearly engrossed by the country. Indeed, it is revealing that the first photo in the book is of Chinoy meeting Kim Il Sung in 1994 and looking extremely pleased with himself...
...more competent than their conventionally trained peers. Stanley and the others have had 95 hours in a single-engine plane (14.5 hours solo) and will have done 260 hours in simulators by graduation. They won't qualify to fly small planes, but once they satisfy their airlines with a dozen take-offs and landings in real 737s, they will be licensed as first officers in passenger jets. "To train to be a commercial airline pilot, you don't need to cross the country on your own in a little propeller plane," argues Roei Ganzarski, Alteon's sales chief. "All those...
...weeks after Stephenson sent his e-mail to 300 of his friends and his parents' business contacts - and asked them to forward it to anyone they could think of - he says he has already received close to $6,000 from more than 2,000 people. Only a dozen or so e-mail recipients have written to him asking if he's a swindler. "Everybody's been really nice about it," he says. "As nice as I guess you can be to somebody you suspect to be scamming you. It hasn't been, 'Oh, you dirty bleep-bleep-bleep...