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...float weightless around the cabin. Earth will look like a shiny ball with white swirls surrounded by a totally black sky. Diving back into the atmosphere will be a wild ride, peaking at nearly 6 Gs--twice the rush you feel on the average roller coaster. Rutan's genius is his "carefree re-entry" design: SpaceShipTwo folds up its wings for re-entry then transforms into a conventional glider for a gentle slide home to the runway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Space Cowboys | 2/22/2007 | See Source »

...both the “autobiography of Valentino Achek Deng” and a “novel by Dave Eggers.” Eggers has toyed with us in this way before, taking extensive creative liberties in his bestselling memoir “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius.” Perhaps the better question in this moving new book about a Sudanese refugee isn’t What, but Which. “This book,” writes the real Deng in the preface, “is the soulful account of my life: from...

Author: By Jessica A. Hui, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Eggers’ Novel Staggering | 2/22/2007 | See Source »

...would be a drug-free, bad-attitude-free world.” The song has been used by “Family Guy,” “Talladega Nights,” and Dave Eggers’s “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius.” It is the ultimate ADD-song, jumping around from vignette to vignette with no real story. The song starts with the tale of a small-town girl and then, suddenly, a city boy. Journey never mentions them again. This is followed by a rocking guitar solo, and then...

Author: By Sachi A. Ezura, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Clinging to the Classics | 2/21/2007 | See Source »

...cyberstalking your friends isn't your bag, you can still use your phone's GPS genius to find businesses or get driving directions on the fly. Sure, this option was already available on some phones without GPS, but it worked so poorly that hardly anyone ever used it. Now the $200 Verizon enV, a smartphone released in January, shows your position on a map and suggests everything from dry cleaners to plumbers nearby. Other cool offerings include the Dash Express, a $700 portable car navigation system on sale this spring with Yahoo!'s Go! local search...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Wireless Street Fight | 2/15/2007 | See Source »

...symbol in The Number 23, then maybe he can be a guru. "It's not any of that that people have liked about me," he says of his humor and characters. "It's not what I do or what I say. I don't believe it was this genius routine. It's the light that gets through me. I just need to get out of the way." When you hear that, it's hard to bet against punch line, but I'm not sure I would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Has Jim Carrey Flipped Out? | 2/14/2007 | See Source »

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