For the 11th time, a California board has voted to deny parole to Gregory Powell, the infamous "Onion Field" cop killer whose 1963 crime was chronicled in Joseph Wambaugh's best-selling book.
Adventurer Bertrand Piccard offers us a challenge: Find motivation in what seems impossible.
When Bertrand Piccard came up with his audacious plan to fly around the world in an aircraft powered only by the sun, he found that airplane manufacturers were skeptical such a plane could be built.
First came the fishermen. Then came the surfers. Now the formerly scruffy enclave of Montauk, at the easternmost point of Long Island, has been colonized by fashion-forward boutiques and hotels that are one-upping the rest of the Hamptons with a refreshingly relaxed sense of style.
Behind closed doors, the scientists and agents of the FBI scrutinize fibers, poisons, explosives, DNA and just about any other shred of evidence that might help solve crimes.
It's odd to recommend another book about Charles A. Lindbergh if there's still a copy of A. Scott Berg's wonderful 1999 biography somewhere on the planet. But Berg's Lindbergh is 640 pages long, and it presupposes a deep interest in its titular subject. David M. Friedman's The Immortalists (Knopf, $26.95) is less than half that length, but, more to the point, it gives you Lindbergh in the provocative context suggested by its title and spelled out in its subtitle: Charles Lindbergh, Dr. Alexis Carrel, and Their Daring Quest to Live Forever.
The man behind the aerospace Ansari X Prize, which helped propel the first ventures into the field of space tourism, is taking on fuel efficiency in cars.
Let's not wax sentimental about our space exploits thus far. The Apollo era was heroic, but beating the Soviets to the Moon never provided a compelling economic reason to return. (We didn't even ge...
Let's not wax sentimental about our space exploits thus far. The Apollo era was heroic, but beating the Soviets to the moon never provided a compelling economic reason to return. (We didn't even get Teflon or Tang as spinoffs--both were invented before 1960.)
Let's not wax sentimental about our space exploits thus far. The Apollo era was heroic, but beating the Soviets to the Moon never provided a compelling economic reason to return. (We didn't even get Teflon or Tang as spinoffs--both were invented before 1960.)
The record-setting, privately-built suborbital rocket plane -- SpaceShipOne -- is headed for a landing at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum (NASM) in Washington, D.C.
After years of capturing the imagination of wide-eyed daredevils, dreamers and would-be entrepreneurs, space travel for ordinary people may finally be taking flight.
Depending on the creator, the "what if" game of alternative history can be enlightening or absurd, scintillating or silly.
The ultimate thrill ride could be closer to reality.
On Oct. 26, 1958, a Pan Am flight made the trip from New York to Paris in eight hours, 41 minutes. Today that time would be nothing special, maybe even a little slow. But in 1958, such a short tran...
Want to change the world? Lead the assault on daunting frontiers? Goad your fellow man into achieving greatness? Improve the odds of finding a parking space? It's easy. Even better, it might make y...
Fortune: On a wing and a PCupdated: Mon Aug 11 2003 00:01:00
Wilbur and Orville Wright took to the air in December 1903, and short of a pilgrimage to Kitty Hawk there's no better way to mark the occasion than with Microsoft's Flight Simulator 2004: A Century...
Chaplin, Lindbergh, and Sigmund Freud
Let us say that you are Warren Buffett. (How does it feel so far?) As of June 30, the company over which you famously preside, Berkshire Hathaway, controlled some $54 billion of investment assets. ...
ON MOCKINGBIRD LANE: rape. On Magnolia: robbery. On Spruce: gunshots. All across suburbia -- on streets named after birds and trees and blossoms -- fear is spreading. It is beginning to change the ...
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