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...Such statements no doubt rub salt in the wounds of the relatives of victims, who have waited years for justice. Outside the court on Tuesday, several head-scarfed Bosnian women assembled on the lawn and declared that they would not leave before they saw Karadzic in the dock. Some said they would even go on a hunger strike. But after a short while, they all turned and slowly headed toward their...
...pioneered became safer and more refined (the first modern hot-air balloon appeared in 1960), it didn't deter a fringe element from testing some dubious designs of their own. Perhaps the most famous of these is the strange 1982 voyage of Larry Walters, known in the press as Lawn Chair Larry. On July 2, Walters, a truck driver from Long Beach, Calif., attached 42 helium-filled weather balloons to an aluminum lawn chair, and with a bottle of soda, a CB radio and a BB gun, lifted off in the makeshift craft, dubbed Inspiration I. Airline pilots were stunned...
...Lawn Chair Larry's unlikely flight spawned many imitators. In 2008, Oregon man Kent Couch successfully took his own balloon-powered lawn chair on a 235-mile (378 km) trek across the state, traveling across the Idaho state line. This was Couch's third trip - his second stopped just short of the state line, while the first ended with him parachuting from the chair after popping too many balloons...
...there one Administration that sticks out as being more secretive than any other? All of them are secretive. All of them. But I think we got a lot more out of President Kennedy and especially President [Lyndon] Johnson. He would summon us - the entire press corps - to the South Lawn and we'd stroll around the grounds with him. We'd call them the Bataan Death Marches because the women wore really high heels with pointed toes, and we would be falling all over each other. But we'd take these walks, and he would really let his hair down...
...march itself was predictable. It was a farrago of left-wing rhetoric (anticorporate, proimmigrant, etc.) and respectfully anti-Obama rhetoric. "Easter egg rolls on the White House lawn are nice, but enactment of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act and the repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act are more important," thundered New York City union official Stuart Appelbaum, who was referring to Obama's invitation earlier this year to at least one lesbian couple to bring their kids to the White House's Easter event...