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...most famously becoming the first person to fly around the world alone in a hot-air balloon, in 2002. "I don't like to be scared," he said. "I spend a lot of effort figuring out how to reduce risks." It is unclear whether such effort was enough to sustain Fossett, 63, who took off in a single-engine plane on Sept. 3 in search of a Nevada location for his planned next feat: breaking the 763-m.p.h. (1,228 km/h) land-speed record. Two days later, search-and-rescue efforts had yet to locate...
...that if Iraq is lost, it will be the Iraqis' fault. Top U.S. generals are predicting that the 30,000-strong troop surge will begin receding in early 2008, bringing the total U.S. military presence down to 130,000 by next August. Military officials hint that they want to sustain that level through the end of the Bush Administration...
...study of 60 Australians who scored at least 160 on IQ tests beginning in the late '80s. Today most of the 33 students who were not allowed to skip grades have jaded views of education, and at least three are dropouts. "These young people find it very difficult to sustain friendships because, having been to a large extent socially isolated at school, they have had much less practice ... in developing and maintaining social relationships," Gross has written. "A number have had counseling. Two have been treated for severe depression." By contrast, the 17 kids who were able to skip...
...better to offer shelter to residents rather than put them through the trauma of evacuation, and that they were so confident that the nursing home was safe that they extended the offer to staffers and their own family members. The nursing home sat on ground that did not sustain heavy flooding during Betsy, the 1965 hurricane that swamped much of St. Bernard Parish, and in fact appeared to have escaped Katrina's fury moments after the storm passed - until breached and overtopped levees sent a torrent of water through the parish...
...eight-week stint in the city I’ll always love to call home comes to a close, I admit that I can no longer sustain my old routine at school. There are just too many places and events that I’ve missed out on. And, as the free-spirited Holly Golightly aptly sings in “Breakfast at Tiffany’s,” there’s such a lot of world to see, even in our relatively small corner of Boston...