PORTLAND, Maine — A 67-year-old hiker whose trail name was “Buffalo Bobby” suffered a fatal medical problem Thursday along the Appalachian Trail just 20 miles before he would have finished the 2,180-mile trail for the third time. Robert Yerike, a free-spirited retired truck driver from Brick, N.J., had called his son, also named Robert, the [...]
The “magic” in this plastic flying carpet is pure technology, nothing wizardly or genie-liscious about it. Shove off Aladdin, move over Solomon, technology is catching up with fantasy, the BBC reports. The prototype flying carpet is described in the journal Applied Physics Letters: “We use integrated piezoelectric actuators and sensors to demonstrate the propulsive force produced by [...]
The 40th annual Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta lifts off October 1, with more than 600 balloons headed to the New Mexico skies for the more-than-week-long event. It’s the world’s largest hot air balloon rally. With more than 100,000 people expected to attend, the crowds start lining up to see balloons and chat with pilots as early [...]
Celebrity chefs have already conquered land and sea. But now they’re going airborne. Tomorrow, October 1st, American Airlines will debut two new lines of food “developed” by the company’s new celebrity chef partners, Marcus Samuelsson of New York’s Red Rooster and Richard Sandoval of Pampano and others. Samuelsson’s dishes, which are being called the “New American Table” menu, after his [...]
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