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Jessica's quest to become the youngest person to fly across the continent began last Wednesday in Half Moon Bay, California. She was to fly east in three legs, laying over in Cheyenne, Wyoming, and Fort Wayne, Indiana, before finally reaching Falmouth, Massachusetts, the town where she was born. She had bumped down in Cheyenne on Wednesday night in a heavy crosswind. "The wind was pushing us out," she told reporters. "You just have to give the plane more power." According to her father, she had been assisted in the landing by Reid, her flight instructor, a veteran pilot...
Instead of a bogus record that inevitably would have been challenged by a still younger child (the Guinness Book of Records officially discontinued its Youngest Pilot categories in 1989, fearing accidents), Americans have a macabre photo album of little Jessica. A mini-Amelia Earhart, in a leather bomber jacket and riding pants. A plucky, pug-nosed girl in a baseball cap who seemed more at home on one of her beloved ponies than in a plane...
...grew up in a small town on the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland, the youngest of five children of a prosperous canned-goods broker. When he was 16, both parents died within six months of each other, leaving the family broke and its house repossessed. Rouse parked cars to make money and eventually got a law degree by taking classes at night. At age 25, he and a friend borrowed $20,000 to form a mortgage-banking firm that became the Rouse Co., one of the nation's biggest developers of houses, apartments and shopping centers...
...fear for the fate of Tibet; we worry for the safety of Ngawang Choephel, missing since the summer, but recently seen in Nyari prison by a fellow prisoner who had been repeatedly beaten and tortured. We fear for the six-year-old Panchen Lama (probably the world's youngest political prisoner) and his family, who all "disappeared" over a month...
Managing what he calls "this rich trove of cyberspace resources" is second nature for Ramo, a journalist and cybersurfer who put Newsweek on Prodigy 18 months ago. Josh, it should be noted, is something of a prodigy himself. At 27, he is the youngest senior editor in TIME's history...