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...long as it by all rights should have taken him. Knievel, who had been in poor health for years from conditions including diabetes and hepatitis C, was best known for his death-defying jumps on motorcycles (and other vehicles) in the 1960s and '70s. But really the stuntman, born Robert Craig Knievel Jr., was best known, and loved, for his crashes. After a number of successful jumps - over cars, trucks, live animals - Knievel shot to national fame after ABC Wide World of Sports aired footage of him spectacularly crashing, and crushing his pelvis, while trying to clear the fountains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Appreciation: Evel Knievel, 1938-2007 | 11/30/2007 | See Source »

Police found the body of John B. Edwards ’10 shortly after 11 p.m. yesterday at the Medical School's New Research Building, according to Robert P. Mitchell, a spokesman for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Harvard police logs...

Author: By Nan Ni, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Kirkland Sophomore Found Dead at Medical School | 11/30/2007 | See Source »

...suffer from wanderlust is to be in the thrall of travel, to have an itch to get out and see the world. “I travel not to go anywhere, but to go,” wrote a brooding Robert Louis Stevenson in “Cheylard and Luc.” “I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move...

Author: By Sahil K. Mahtani | Title: Wind, Sand, and Stars | 11/30/2007 | See Source »

...have other sorts of travelers: Robert Byron, after his time at Eton and Oxford, paid for his Tibet trip piecemeal by serializing articles about it. There is Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, the thoughtful French aviator who piloted his way around Algerian skies and Saharan camels before becoming at one point—randomly—director of the Aeroposta Argentina Company...

Author: By Sahil K. Mahtani | Title: Wind, Sand, and Stars | 11/30/2007 | See Source »

Motorcycle stuntman Robert "Evel Knievel" died in Florida Friday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Evel Knievel Dies at 69 | 11/30/2007 | See Source »

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