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...orphan child being raised by dead people. In his spare time, he may swing by Los Angeles to see how Roger Zemeckis' animated version of Beowulf, for which Gaiman rewrote the oldest epic in the English language, is coming along. Isn't that too much to juggle? Gaiman, jet-lagged but engaged, rocks one hand from side to side in answer. "I'm pushing it," he admits. "Right now is the first time I've ever looked around and thought, 'That's not sane.'" Indeed, Gaiman's name has become such a seal of approval that he's just realizing...
...Mach 2, twice the speed of sound--a record that spurred his rival, U.S. Air Force ace Chuck Yeager, to surpass it a month later; in a crash of Crossfield's single-engine Cessna in the mountains north of Atlanta. One of the post--World War II supersonic-jet aviators whom author Tom Wolfe said had "the right stuff," Crossfield dismissed the macho image of his field, saying that for most pilots he knew, the "main interest outside of work was raising apricots...
...Club is chic, private and very hard to get into. It's the jet set's place to dine. 32 Wellington Street, Central...
...plane collides with a Chinese fighter jet, killing the Chinese pilot, then makes an emergency landing on the Chinese island of Hainan; the crew is held for 10 days until the U.S. issues a letter expressing its regret...
...reports suggested a small twin-engine plane had crashed into the World Trade Center. "What a horrible accident; the pilot must have had a heart attack or something," the President had said to Card. Later, while Bush was inside a school classroom, Card learned that it looked like a jet liner, and that there was a second plane. "I stood at the door and wondered, If I were President, would I want to know that?" Card recalled. "The answer is obvious. The challenge of how to tell the President became the burden of the moment. He was with students...