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...more polished second son Jeb who would follow the old man into politics. When both boys ran for statewide office in 1994, the family's chips were on Jeb in Florida, not George in Texas, to win. So when the reverse happened, "W" had pulled off the most outrageous stunt...
DIED. JACQUELINE AURIOL, 82, French aviator who was the second woman to break the sound barrier, in 1953; in Paris. The daughter-in-law of French President Vincent Auriol, Jacqueline traded parties at the palace for stunt-flying lessons in 1946. Two years after her face was crushed while she was a passenger in a 1949 plane crash, she volunteered to fly the Vampire jet fighter and set a world speed record for female aviators...
...intense personal impact on individual families," said Sen. Joseph Lieberman (D-Conn.), the ranking Democrat on the committee. "But if college becomes a luxury that an increasing percentage of the population cannot afford, the economic divide between the have and the have-nots could undercut the American dream and stunt the nation's economic growth...
...airborne and did a three-point landing," Moore says, and at one of those points, her right wrist, she broke two tiny bones: a metacarpal and the capitatum. The latter injury, quips Moore, "sounds like losing one's head, which is what I did when I suggested doing this stunt...
...Zorn, 42, a.k.a. NotComGuy. Vaguely troubled by his dependence on electronics, NotComGuy cooked up his own experiment. Instead of withdrawing from human society into his computer, NotComGuy set out to withdraw from his computer--and his cell phone and fax machine as well--into human society. Reasoning that "this stunt has a difficulty factor 52 times greater than DotComGuy's bagatelle," he announced he would go cold turkey for a week, then report on his discoveries in print...