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...politician, who crossed the Atlantic Ocean in 1952 in a 4.2-m inflatable dinghy to prove that long sea voyages had been possible in the past without freshwater supplies; in Toulon, France. Bombard made the journey with a sextant, fishing equipment, books and a plankton filter. He survived on raw fish, seawater, and plankton, which is rich in vitamin C, and drifted into Barbados from the Canary Islands 25 kg lighter after 65 days. He later served as France's State Secretary for the Environment before being elected to the European Parliament...
...PUBLISHING FIRM. ANY CHANCE YOU'LL DO YOUR AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND PUT IT OUT YOURSELF? Wait and see. It's still chapter one for Amazon. I think there'll be more happening on the Internet over the next 10 years than in the last 10. Over the next decade, the raw materials--technology, computers, disc space, bandwidth--will get cheaper and more powerful at a very rapid rate. Our job is to figure out how to layer invention on top of those raw materials to make things that actually matter to people...
...tillo--either way, it's a funny, foulmouthed culinary tour. (Of a French waiter, he asks, "Why is it that when he calls me 'Mon ami,' it sounds like 'A______'?") Fox is turning Bourdain's book Kitchen Confidential into a sitcom this fall; here you can catch him raw...
...smart enough, you have a high sperm count. Part of the lesson I got from—when I was able to qualify and was actually considering it, even though I had completely dismissed it before the examination—is that there is a strong element of raw male ego within the process...
Jockey-size Levi Leipheimer, 31, the Montana-born boss of Germany's team Gerolsteiner, makes up with precision riding what he lacks in raw talent. Before each stage, he probes his bike like a quality-control engineer, obsessing over the height and angle of the saddle, its distance from the handlebars. He can drive the tech guys crazy. "I've seen him argue for 15 minutes about a difference of one and a half millimeters," says Gerolsteiner spokesman Jörg Grünefeld. Leipheimer's approach is clearly working; he reached fifth place entering the Tour's final week...