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Last year, the gang created the 40/40 club, gathering 13 people to eat 40-ounce burritos with 40 ounces of malt liquor in 40 minutes, a feat documented by Fifteen Minutes...
...rides on Soyuz modules, the private-rocket crowd is fired up because a privately funded ship might be ready for takeoff within a few years. Since 1996, several teams have been racing to develop a three-person spacecraft that could reach the edge of the atmosphere and repeat the feat within two weeks--the qualifications required to win the $10 million X Prize created by entrepreneur Peter Diamandis to encourage private spaceflight. Leading that race is legendary aerospace engineer Burt Rutan, who is gearing up for another test after his rocket plane broke the sound barrier for the first time...
...Monday after the film's sneak preview, no pirate copies had surfaced. "It was a pretty amazing feat," Brandon says now, as if describing a matter of national security. "The movie very easily could have been compromised...
...DIED. GERTRUDE EDERLE, 98, American swimmer who was briefly a national icon after she became the first woman to swim the English Channel; in Wyckoff, New Jersey. Ederle accomplished the feat in 1926 in a then world-record time...
...could any reasonable person doubt any of these claims? Look at the examples! The footnotes! The certitude! This is the great fallacy of the anger industry. It is no shocking feat to fill a broadcast, book or website with the untruths of politicians. But doing so is not proof that your side is any better--except to your grateful audience, who are all that matters. (And whom you can certainly count on not to know or care if you get your facts wrong...