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Knowing that board games were her freshman roommate’s favorite childhood toys landed a disbelieving Eliot House sophomore two plane tickets to Paris—a prize she received last night as part of thefacebook.com’s Friends Trivia Game...
...toss-up between board games and Legos and then I remembered she played a lot of Scrabble last year, so that’s what I answered,” said Yiyang Wu ’07, who won the plane ticket as the first of three grand prize trips to Paris worth $500 each. By the holidays, almost $10,000 in small prizes and plane tickets will be awarded...
...reception was muted. Rutan was widely respected in the experimental-plane-building industry, having designed Voyager, the first aircraft to make it around the world nonstop without refueling, which his brother Dick helped fly into the record books in 1986. But the design for SpaceShipOne inspired near universal derision. "When I first saw it, I thought he'd lost his mind," says Mike Melvill, Rutan's oldest employee, longtime friend and faithful test pilot...
SpaceShipOne's lift-off is inventive too. The vehicle is carried aloft tethered to the belly of a futuristic cargo plane dubbed White Knight, which takes off effortlessly and then climbs in circles of ever increasing altitude for an hour. Just when you think White Knight has disappeared from sight, SpaceShipOne separates and ignites its engine, which is fueled by nitrous oxide and rubber, and a plume of white smoke shoots straight up into the sky. Unlike the computer-driven shuttle, SpaceShipOne is controlled by an old-fashioned mechanical stick and rudder. That makes the altitude climb hair-raising...
...already record TV shows. But now, by pairing the newest models--such as the Gateway 7200S ($1,400; gateway.com)--with two new add-ons, that technology goes mobile. You can transfer shows and songs to Creative's Zen Portable Media Center ($500; creative.com to enjoy on a plane or bus or in your breakfast nook. If the PC is in the den but you want to see your shows on the living room TV, try Linksys' Media Center Extender ($300; linksys.com) which lets your computer broadcast to another screen...