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...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...
Visiting four of the main locales--there are many more--requires several days. If distances seem long to young ones, families can read the books aloud en route and marvel at the cheerful fortitude of the Ingalls girls, who uncomplainingly journeyed over rough ground in covered wagons with hard seats and no air-conditioning...
...coming together of the progressivecommunity on campus," said Anna M. Baldwin '00,who is involved with the coalition. "We've allbeen involved with discussions withadministrators, either over past years or thissemester, and we felt we weren't being heard, sowe wanted to come together en masse...
Harvard amassed 115 points en route to claiming third place. Penn (10-0-2, 4-0-1 Ivy)--last year's EIWA champs--again commanded the tournament, winning five of the ten individual titles and amassing 166.5 points to take first. The Quakers were followed by Cornell (13-2-1), which had 135.5 points...
...Observers dutifully wonder why avalanche story given much greater coverage than death of 61 in crash of Chinese airliner en route from Chengdu in Sichuan province to coastal city of Wenzhou...