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India Balloonist Sets Highest Flight Mark
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| 11/26/05
| RAMOLA TALWAR BADAM - ap
Posted on 11/26/2005 8:43:19 AM PST by NormsRevenge
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To: Milhous
This is a great line: Consumers of news now understand that, as Eastland says, ``news is a thing made, a product, and that media with certain beliefs and values once made the news and then presented it in authoritative terms, as though beyond criticism.
To: Unmarked Package
Even the achievements of these heroes don't count in this category, I think a salute to these space pioneers is in order anyway.
Lt. Cdr. Victor Prather and Cdr. Malcolm Ross in Gondola, May 4, 1961
To: NormsRevenge; All
And then there's Jospeh Kittinger who
parachuted from a balloon at 102,800 feet in 1960. He actually is the only person ever to break the sound barrier without an aircraft.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Kittinger
To: NormsRevenge; All
Joseph Kittinger:
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