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...challenge, says Piccard, is to keep going until the next sunrise before the batteries are empty: "We have very little margin of error from night into day. Each dawn will be a moment of incredible suspense." For the 2011 flight, he and Boschberg will do alternating stints of five days and five nights between landings. A day on the ground spent charging in the sunlight should be enough to get the plane back into the air the next morning for another stage in its globe-girdling journey...
...holding his class picture in the tent in Macedonia still hung above my desk. In October, as the question of Kosovo's destiny became more and more acute, I tracked Dani down again, eager to know what had become of him and his homeland at this watershed moment in history. Stepping through the sliding glass doors at Pristina airport, I spotted that same giant smile I knew from eight years earlier, now with a little scruff of a goatee beneath...
This is a serious column.Fair warning, because you’ll be waiting for the payoff, the gotcha moment, the just-kidding punch line, and it’s not going to arrive.Last Saturday, I was a civilian; at far remove from the Yale Bowl press box, I cheered wildly for every Bulldogs stumble, every incompletion, every three-and-out. Virtually everything that could go wrong for the Elis did, and as a Harvard fan who loves to point and laugh and yell in the raucous environment of a near-full arena, I reveled in it. Last Sunday, I asked...
...where Harvard held a tight 1-0 lead in the second period.“[Kessler] made a split save that was so incredible,” Cahow says. “There was no way that puck wasn’t going in. In that moment I realized that she’s got all that she needs to be a goaltender. I think when you can make those kind of saves in close games that’s the mark of the best goaltender in the country.”Despite Kessler’s success...
Lebanese troops and armored vehicles have deployed at key junctions in Beirut in case the tensions spill over into factional violence. "It's a very delicate moment in the country," said Sateh Noureddine, a columnist for Lebanon's As Safir daily newspaper...