Word: mins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...toward high-power lines. The Royal Canadian Mounties, aboard a helicopter, came to the rescue. Using the backwash from the rotors, the chopper pilot pushed the balloon toward a clearing in Ste. Félicité, Quebec, where the gondola finally dropped to the ground, 99 hrs. and 54 min. after leaving San Francisco Bay. For once Maxie's mind was not on the next challenge, which he had previously suggested might be a balloon flight around the world. Said he: "I'll leave that for another...
...hadn't she? On the assumption she had, New Yorker Rosie Ruiz, 26, was crowned as the first woman finisher in the 26.2-mile Boston Marathon. But doubts arose about Rosie's remarkable physical condition and stunning time: 2 hr. 31 min. 56 sec. Nobody remembered seeing her, except near the finish line; two Harvard students insisted they watched her join the pack half a mile away. Doubts also arose, as a result, about her 24th-place finish in the 1979 New York Marathon. Rechecked finish-line video tapes showed no Ruiz, although a computer had checked...
...Initiation of latmul men in Papua (20 min...
...Scarification of girls in the Sudan (10 min...
...Excision of Omar-Arab girls in the Sudan (10 min...