WITNESS: Fossett made friends in out-of-way places
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Alastair Macdonald is Reuters Bureau Chief for Israel and the Palestinian territories, based in Jerusalem. From 1995 to 1999 he covered the former Soviet Union as a Reuters correspondent in Moscow. In the following story, he recounts how he met Steve Fossett when the American adventurer's attempt to fly non-stop around the world in a balloon came to a premature end in southern Russia 10 years ago.
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The hunt for missing aviator Steve Fossett in the rugged terrain of western Nevada could solve some much older mysteries. Searchers have turned up half a dozen previously undiscovered plane crash sites, and they believe there may be as many as 200 such sites around the Sierra Nevada range.
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Searchers completed their first overnight hunt for Steve Fossett, organizers said today, after hopes were dashed that wreckage of the missing adventurer's plane had been found. Fossett vanished after taking off Monday from a ranch in Nevada.
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RENO, Nevada  - U.S. millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett, who made record-breaking solo flights by plane and balloon, has disappeared over the Nevada desert after taking off in a small plane to scout sites for an attempt to set a world land speed record, authorities said on Tuesday.
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RENO, Nevada  - The search for missing adventurer  Steve Fossett resumed on Wednesday as his friend, British  billionaire Richard Branson, tried to find him through a  satellite mapping service offered by Google.
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RENO, Nevada  - Air crews planned to search a vast area of the Nevada and California desert for a fifth day on Friday in the hope of spotting missing U.S. adventurer Steve Fossett.
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CAMBRIDGE -- A new friend-spotting software program will debut on the MIT campus today, allowing people to enjoy the social benefits of sharing their location without showing up on Big Brother's radar screen. The iFIND project turns every laptop into something like a precise Global Positioning System unit that can spot users -- down to the room they're sitting in ...
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RENO, Nevada  - The search for missing U.S.  adventurer Steve Fossett resumed on Wednesday as his friend,  British billionaire Richard Branson, tried to find him through  a satellite mapping service offered by Google.
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RENO, Nevada  - The Nevada Air National Guard dispatched a Blackhawk helicopter to a canyon on Wednesday afternoon after receiving a "credible" tip that missing millionaire adventurer Steven Fossett's plane may have crashed there.
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Trevor Paglen's subjects are good at keeping secrets - and their distance: Many miles of secure federal land frequently surround the off-limits military installations that he goes to great lengths to photograph.
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Millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett, who risked his life seeking to set records in high-tech balloons, gliders and jets, was declared dead Friday, 5 months after he vanished while flying in an ordinary small plane.
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By Meet Your Neighbor FRANCES FANNING For the Journal  If this year's monsoon season has had you thinking of the fragility of life in the high desert, meet a man who is taking action.
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U.S. millionaire adventurer Steve  Fossett, who made record-breaking solo flights by plane and  balloon, has disappeared over the Nevada desert after taking  off in a small plane to scout sites for an attempt to set a  world land speed record, authorities said on Tuesday.
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MINDEN, Nev. -- A squadron of 10 airplanes and helicopters began a fourth day Thursday of a frustrating search for missing millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett, whose small plane disappeared over Nevada's rugged high desert.
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CHICAGO -- Millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett, who risked his life seeking to set records in high-tech balloons, gliders and jets, was declared dead Friday, 5 months after he vanished while flying in an ordinary small plane.
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For the first time, an international team of astronomers led by Guy Perrin from the Paris Observatory/LESIA, (Meudon, France) and Stephen Ridgway from the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (Tucson, Arizona, USA) has observed the close environment of
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RENO, Nevada  - Air crews planned to search through Thursday night for missing U.S. adventurer Steve Fossett on a mission they likened to looking for a needle in a haystack in the vast Nevada desert.