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...teams competing for the X Prize purse, which was set to expire at the end of this year. Modeled on the Orteig Prize--which motivated Charles Lindbergh's celebrated transatlantic flight in 1927--the X Prize was created to fuel a competition in space liners, just as its predecessor inspired the early airlines. Imaginations ran wild. The Canadian Da Vinci Project wanted to launch its rocket from 80,000 ft. after lifting it there with a reusable helium balloon. John Carmack, creator of the Doom video games, intended to blast his wife into suborbital space with a new kind...
...HALO 2 The new and improved version of an alien-killing classic rocks harder than its predecessor...
Fitzpatrick will leave Harvard as the school’s second leading all-time passer behind only his predecessor, Neil Rose...
Ashcroft, if nothing else, served as an almost flawless example of what an attorney general should not be. We hope that the incoming attorney general, Alberto Gonzales learns from the mistakes of his predecessor...
MacFarquhar served as Parliamentarian under both Summers and his predecessor, Neil L. Rudenstine, and describes the different experiences working with each president...