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...sailed triumphantly into France's Pouliguen harbor, 79 days and 6 hours after embarking from Brittany, smashing the existing circumnavigation record (109 days). It wasn't easy. En route, Commodore struck a pod of whales off Brazil, cracking a hull, and nearly lost two crewmen in a mid-Atlantic gale. Ultimately, Peyron prevailed through wit and guile, not technology. Fogg would have approved...
...Brian D. Gale '96 agreed, saying he was "not too worried" about being randomized...
Seconds after a rich executive (cameo appearance by Edward Hermann) hastily jumps to his death from atop a Chicago skyscraper, local TV news reporter Gale Gayley (Geena Davis), who has just conducted a pre-suicide interview, instinctively asks her cameraman...
...countries like Egypt and Mexico, for instance, farmland that formerly grew staples for human consumption is being switched to grow grain for beef that only the wealthy can afford. Indirectly, then, a growing cattle population threatens humans on the low end of the economic scale with hunger. D. Gale Johnson, an agricultural economist at the University of Chicago, questions this assumption. He notes that in China, beef consumption has risen in tandem with overall improvements in diet...
...with the 400-h.p. Dodge Viper RT/10, a performance machine that has sports-car fans salivating even before the limited-edition coupe hits the streets (only 300 will be produced this year). The Viper grew from a 1989 challenge issued by Chrysler president Bob Lutz to design chief Tom Gale and engineering director Francois Castaing: develop a classic sports car that could match the machines of old. Legendary Cobra designer Carroll Shelby, now a Chrysler consultant, was brought in to be "the conscience" of the Viper. "We set out to make a car that was just as brutal...