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...worst moments," said French schoolteacher turned sailor CHRISTOPHE AUGUIN, "I said to myself that I am too young to die. But," he added philosophically, "you have to accept that possibility." Auguin, who last week broke the world record for nonstop solo circumnavigation of the world in a yacht, had plenty of bad moments over the almost 106-day journey. Only half of the 12 competitors in the Vendee Globe are expected to finish the race. Two were rescued by the Australian navy; one is still missing. "Finding your way through a field of icebergs," Auguin told Paris Match, "is like...
...Fewer Nonstops. The hub-and-spoke system was created in the late 1970s and early '80s to create "fortress hubs" and full planes. For passengers, this means fewer nonstop flights, reduced meals and higher fares. The strategy faltered when low-fare carriers landed in the hubs and ticket prices dropped exponentially. But the ValuJet tragedy has devastated the low-cost carriers. When ValuJet recently announced plans to end service between Mobile, Alabama, and Atlanta (a Delta fortress hub), the lowest available fare on Delta shot up overnight from...
...Hollywood royalty. Her wide, playful mouth suggests the young Katharine Hepburn; its I-know-I've-got-it look can be read as poise or derision. Waif-thin, Posey must have a Slinky for a spine; her walk is a loosey-goosey dance, as if house music were playing nonstop in her head. The aura is of a Park Avenue deb who gets her kicks downtown...
...banalities and inconveniences of middle-class life, the Hills--Hank, his wife Peggy and son Bobby--are a grimmer, reality-based lot, who doggedly accept the burdens of their position. The show is languidly paced and less wide reaching than the Simpsons in its comedy; absent is the nonstop barrage of cultural references ranging from Buckminster Fuller to Sammy Davis Jr. King of the Hill mines its humor instead from the narrow but brilliantly honed universe of Hank's no-nonsense populism and his coterie of dim-witted pals who fixate on cars and conspiracy theories and refer...
LONDON: Richard Branson is down--and lucky to be alive. Just 19 hours into the flamboyant British tycoon's second attempt to make the first nonstop, round-the-world balloon flight, the 174-foot "Global Challenger" experienced technical problems and the three-man crew was forced to land in the Algerian wilderness. "At one stage I was standing by the door chucking out everything movable - oil canisters, food, anything - to halt the descent," Branson said. "I thought, "What am I doing up here?" The acknowledged hero of the safe landing was engineer Alex Ritchie, himself a last-minute replacement...