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...going to stop him from breaking the sound barrier. The U.S. Air Force was counting on him. It was his ninth flight in the experimental rocket plane XS-1, each one having edged closer to Mach 1, the never crossed barrier past which man would fly faster than the speed of sound. It was dangerous, he knew. A British test pilot had been blown to bits going Mach 0.94. The crew at Murdoc Air Base in California, not knowing the extent of Yeager's injuries, sent him off with a jolly "Hi-yo, Silver...
...Mark Hamill and I--jittery and on live talk shows (like acid, only more gruesomely populated), and throughout the day we attempted to deliver George Lucas' message to enlist in his "star war." Harrison was its most apparently able representative; Mark and I were clambering to get up to speed. After all, we were figuring out who we were, forming our public, never-before-aired personas in front of you, perfecting our act by the seat of our talk-show pants. But we all liked the attention. What immature actor doesn't? Of course Harrison might have been mature...
Since 1999, when a Los Angeles rabbi, Yaacov Deyo, co-author of Speed Dating: The Smarter, Faster Way to Lasting Love, divined a way to get Jewish singles to mingle, scores of speed-dating services have popped up, offering time-pressed lonely hearts a chance to meet dozens of prospective partners in a single evening. One such service, HurryDate, launched in New York City two years ago, now runs dating events in 50 cities in the U.S., Canada and Britain--and points with pride to its first engaged couple (set to wed this June). TIME went to a session...
...Speed and accurate information are critical in defeating such outbreaks, and critics say Beijing's silence has had deadly consequences. In 1997, when a previously unknown strain of avian influenza killed nine in Hong Kong, the government's swift move to quarantine patients and cull more than a million chickens was widely credited with halting the spread of the disease. The risks of an uncontrolled viral outbreak are catastrophically high: with its tens of millions of pigs, poultry and people living in close proximity, southern China has long been one of the world's most lethal breeding grounds for killer...
...Minnesota is a small, quick team that relies on speed to win, but the Crimson beat the Gophers to the puck consistently. In addition, the Crimson was able to slow the Gophers' pace while avoiding penalties...