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...Numbers 67 hr. 2 min. 38 sec. Time it took financier turned adventurer Steve Fossett to become the first man to fly nonstop around the world without refueling 1.2 tons Approximate amount of fuel that unaccountably disappeared after takeoff...
...agenda—a hands-off, status quo administration raising money with one hand and throwing it at professors with the other—is actually best served by an impotent Larry Summers. After all, a new president wouldn’t labor against the endless mea culpas and nonstop pandering that the faculty’s warriors want Larry to learn...
...Presumably these expository time-outs also give the actors a chance to catch their breath between nearly nonstop action sequences. Ma, who worked with Jackie Chan on some of the superstar's best films, can shoot fight scenes that dodge and weave between ridiculous and dangerous. The 42-year-old Leung is no Jackie Chan (alas, neither is Jackie Chan these days), but he moves with a swashbuckling rhythm. Shu bats her eyes ferociously. Ma's easygoing balance gets a bit lost by the big finale. We won't say what happens, but it includes the line...
...Japan's new stance won't alter the fundamentals of the nearly 60-year cross-strait standoff, and isn't likely to nix what appears to be a minor thaw between Beijing and Taipei. The recent Lunar New Year holiday saw the first nonstop commercial flights between the mainland and Taiwan, and last week Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian made a pact with James Soong, a rival politician who wants better ties with China, not to declare independence, change Taiwan's formal name from the Republic of China, or rule out eventual unification with China...
Karnazes, 42, who now plans to go 300 miles nonstop, lays claim in his lively new autobiography, Ultramarathon Man, which will be published next month, to being the ultra of the ultramarathoners. That is a cultish group of athletes, many in their 40s, for whom a marathon just isn't challenging or interesting enough. If 36,000 people finished the New York City Marathon last year, how hard could it be? The ultras race over hill and dale in 50- to 100-mile painfests, like the Western States 100 and the Leadville Trail 100. Says John Medinger, 54, an investment...