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...desire to present McCandless’s story authentically motivated Penn as well. “When you find a story like this...you realize that the closest thing to the answer can be found in nature...[and as a director,] you can follow a trail, photograph it as honestly as you can, and hope people walk out to their own version.”—Staff writer Victoria D. Sung can be reached at vsung@fas.harvard.edu...
Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, owner of the Portland Trail Blazers and the Seattle Seahawks, and one of the developers of the first private spacecraft, has never lacked for ways to stay busy, but in 2001 he joined with the University of California, Berkeley, and the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute to install a set of 42 dish antennas in Hat Creek, Calif. The so-called Allen Telescope Array (ATA), which was scheduled to go live on Oct. 11, does what conventional radio telescopes do. That is to say, it listens to the faint whisper of radio signals from...
...goal: a 10-min. mile (fear not, olympians). Wearing a pair of Nike Plus running shoes, I wind along a tree-covered Oregon trail, glancing at my iPod nano every few strides. I wish that little chip in my Nikes would malfunction. It's telling the nano my pace, and the nano in turn is taunting me: a 10-min. 30-sec. clip, with about another half a mile to go. I sprint--and almost die--near the finish. One mile completed, the nano screen reads. My time: 9min. 42sec. Yes! Cue the Chariots of Fire music...
...movies, not in stores. "The long-term challenges will be keeping the idea fresh and keeping down the price," says Harry Balzer of the NPD Group. Other major popcorn retailers, like the Popcorn Factory, have grown by selling online, so Dale and Thomas is driving blind, without a trail blazed by another company. Even the business's CEO admits that its rocket-fueled expansion may be a bumpy ride. "When you move this quickly, you make mistakes," Struhl says...
American politicians - especially presidential hopefuls looking to score easy points - lit into the Iranian President with a candor they rarely show on the campaign trail. "It is unacceptable for [Ahmadinejad], who refuses to renounce and end his own country's support of terrorism, to visit the site of the deadliest terrorist attack on American soil in our nation's history," said Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton. Republican candidate Rudy Giuliani - who was New York City mayor at the time of the attacks - thundered: "This is a man who has made threats against America and Israel, is harboring bin Laden...