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...fitting coincidence, the first known manned balloon flight occurred 226 years to the day before Falcon's supposed flight. On Oct. 15, 1783, French scientist Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier ascended 84 ft. (25 m) off the ground - the length of the rope attached to the vessel. He followed this tentative milestone with the first untethered flight on Nov. 21, reaching an altitude of 3,000 ft. (900 m). But de Rozier would also have the inglorious distinction of becoming ballooning's first fatality. During a 1785 attempt to cross the English Channel, de Rozier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Do-It-Yourself Ballooning | 10/16/2009 | See Source »

...first U.S. medical school to train community-based primary-care physicians. (Florida State University's medical school, for example, lets its third-year students do clinical work in rural areas of the state's Panhandle.) But it's considered the first to make that mission its raison d'être. Under its NeighborhoodHELP (Health Education Learning Program) scheme, which will forge permanent relationships with underserved zones of Miami, students are assigned a household along with counterparts from fields like nursing, social work and public health. Rock developed the idea with FIU's Dr. Pedro Greer - whose pioneering efforts to deliver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Florida Medical School's Effort to Boost Primary Care | 10/15/2009 | See Source »

...while maintaining a somewhat lower profile than Ferguson, is well known internationally for his animations. “In New York City, the maître d’ at Pizzeria Uno recognized me from something ABC News did and wanted me to autograph a napkin,” he says with a laugh. A high school biology class also asked for an autograph after reporting they watched the video at the beginning of class everyday...

Author: By Lingbo Li, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Professors Who Rock Harvard | 10/8/2009 | See Source »

...Voltage" - Playboy Tre & Mickey Factz (prod by B.o.B...

Author: By Jillian K. Kushner | Title: Straus' September Mix | 9/21/2009 | See Source »

...whom all the ladies love!") From there it descended into tragedy and defeat. At one of Lunardi's public launches, a young man got tangled up in some of the balloon's ropes, was dragged aloft, then fell to his death. Lunardi died in poverty, and the dauntless Piltre was killed while attempting to cross the English Channel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science Feels Sexy in The Age of Wonder | 8/3/2009 | See Source »

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