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...four days. "I realized that the worst desert wasn't made of sand but of water," Piccard said when communications were re-established. Then the balloon popped out of its jet stream over Mexico and drifted in the wrong direction. They were using up precious fuel without making much headway. Even worse, a heater faltered, and temperatures on board plummeted to 46[degrees]F. Both pilots were exhausted, and Piccard had to resort to self-hypnosis to calm himself. But the duo pulled it together in the homestretch. Catching a 100-m.p.h. jet stream over the Atlantic all but assured...
...muscle with the cruise-missile strike against bin Laden, and his network has been quiet for four months, Washington still sees him as a major threat. The White House has ordered stepped-up efforts to disrupt the terror network, but with mixed results. Treasury Department officials have made no headway dismantling bin Laden's financial empire. Most of his investments are in European or African companies that are unaffected by U.S. economic sanctions and don't deal in dollars, which Treasury could track. The State Department, likewise, has not convinced Afghanistan's ruling Taliban to evict bin Laden...
...round. Beck's new album, Mutations, suffers from these post-success symptoms all over the place. Rather than depart too much from his established persona or strain too hard to maintain his position at the forefront of the electronica vanguard, Beck holds back like a worried date, making minimal headway in order to wreak minimal havoc. No hard core fans will be distressed by the modest, competent roots rock that dominates Mutations, but it won't be winning any Grammy's this year...
...This is the most significant headway we've seen thus far," said Eric M. Nelson '99, who served on the Committee on House Life last year and who is also a Crimson editor...
...that's a big if--Habibie's new Cabinet is able to make headway in restoring the economy, his presidency may defy expectations and last its full term, some analysts say. Even so, Indonesia will change in ways that were impossible under Suharto's centralized control. The press has thrown off self-censorship, and the next step could be the legitimization of multiparty politics to accommodate the newfound sense of "people power." John Sidel, a lecturer at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, predicts, "You will see a great diversity in government, and all these different groups...