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...balloon ended Wednesday with a forced landing in a Canadian farmer's field, just 1,800 miles into the trip. The 51-year-old Fossett, who has climbed some of the world's tallest peaks, set records in ballooning and sailing and completed Alaska's 1,100-mile Iditarod Sled Dog Race, lifted off from South Dakota's Black Hills early Monday and immediately ran into trouble. A faulty autopilot system, extreme cold and a dead heater left him with just three hours sleep in two days. Then the electrical and communications systems failed. As a pair of helicopters combed...
...that time of year again, when my place at the North Pole is alive with excitement and activity. The elves have never been quite so busy, and Mrs. Claus is sewing some buttons on the old suit. I've been making some repairs to the sled and preparing the reindeer...
...they will never be stars or professionals can relate to -- the victory you yourself have won, the satisfaction you can get out of it." There is surely such satisfaction felt by the Jamaican bobsledders at the end of Cool Runnings. Having crashed in their final run, they hoist their sled above them and carry it to the finish line like a dead comrade. Winning, the movie dared say, isn't everything. Trying...
Camera Angle Most Reminiscent of an N.Y.U. Student Film: CBS's shot from inside U.S. bobsled driver Brian Shimer's sled. The view: the inside of the sled and Shimer's legs...
...never, to the best of my memory, had a strong urge to lie on greased-up, aerodynamic sled that flies off in a different at 80 mph with the slightest wrong body movement. Maybe I'm weird that...