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...will be pushed from Hopkinton to Boston, getting the American record and a million dollars to boot. Good that the other one is here for a reality check: nice though, but unlikely. We've done the training, slogged through some long runs, felt like death at mile 12 and been congratulated with a second wind by number 15, but American records are a little out of reach...
...efficiencies present Amazon with a classic start-up's dilemma: if the service offered is so easy that a couple of hundred computer jocks can pull it off, it should be equally easy for a billion-dollar behemoth to shoulder you off the road--so better stay ahead every mile of the race...
After the class of 1872 added a clock in 1897, according to Bainbridge Bunting's Harvard: An Architectural History, "Even the townspeople were beholden [to the building], for anyone who lived within a quarter mile could see the face of one of the clocks and hear the tolling of the quarter hour." The tower completed an edifice so monumental in its Gothic exuberance that it could only be crowned by overstatement...
TUCSON, Arizona: A ten-mile circle on a snowy Colorado mountain is now the target of the search for Air Force Captain Craig Button and his runaway plane. Working with FAA radar tracks and several eyewitness accounts, the Colorado Civil Air Patrol has placed Button's A-10, an $8.8 million plane loaded with four 500-pound bombs, on New York mountain, about 20 miles southwest of Vail. The mystery of why Button left the Arizona-bound flight path of his three-plane team has raised speculation that he might have purposely broken away. There have been several incidents...
...with school children following her flight on the Internet. Other than a slight detour over northern Africa to avoid political unrest in Sudan, Finch's flight route will follow precisely the path taken by Earhart. Waving breezily to reporters, Finch says she has no jitters about her 29,000 mile flight. The original Earhart flight ended in disaster after 22,000 miles when Earhart, her navigator and plane vanished over the Pacific Ocean on the way between New Guinea and Howland Island. Pratt & Whitney, which is shelling out $4.5 million to sponsor the venture, financed the restoration of Finch...