The greatest escape of all
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Everything has changed, starting with that most basic of concepts: nationality. Sixty years ago, the town of Sagan was located deep in Germany.
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The world&#39;s first private astronaut, South African-born Mike Melvill, was jubilant as he returned safely from a harrowing roller-coaster ride into space that stopped the hearts of onlookers.
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A colorful and confounding head trip, âOpera Jawaâ is guaranteed to test the fortitude of all but the most adventurous viewer.
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There may be something almost nostalgic in our celebration of a âheroic explorer.â
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THE wife and children of Mark Thatcher fled South Africa yesterday to escape the furore that has erupted since the British businessman&#39;s arrest last week for allegedly financing a botched coup attempt in Equatorial Guinea.
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"The Complete Stories" (Pantheon Books, 528 pages, $27.50), by David Malouf: Australia is often a backpacker's destination of choice when otherwise lost. Its Ayers Rock and glittering Sydney are so far away and seasonally upside down that it must be the place to find a sense of purpose in the unsure time between adolescence and age.
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There's a ray of sunshine in all that gloom and doom.
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Often dismissed as a quirky pipe dream, it took a thrill-seeking mogul to energize one of mankind's oldest desires. By James Lee from Wired magazine.
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When you&#39;re 17 or 18, the world is only possibilities. You&#39;re immortal, accelerating down the fast lane of a superhighway stretching to forever.
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Travel: Rory MacLean: Robert Macfarlane's journey into the wildest corners of Britain and Ireland put the wonder back into familiar landscapes.
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Travel: The scene is better than at any time since the Beatles became too famous to have a pint down their local
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The land of Dracula is beautiful. I had plenty of time to admire it since getting anywhere in Romania takes forever.
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Four passengers had a remarkable escape when the plane they were travelling in burst into flames after losing both its wings in a crash-landing
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Richard Branson pays tribute to a lost adventurer, who soared to new heights and took us along for the ride
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âWhen you move all your life,â said Mitch Bainwol, âthe most memorable moments are your last day in one place and your first day in another.â
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Travel: She loves to dance, he loves to board. So to ensure a harmonious romantic getaway, Huw Williams and Rose Allett travel to Spain
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Take three strangers and put them together on a Nassau County beach during Memorial Day weekend.  Add a helpless child, then throw in some treacherous rip currents, and suddenly you have an incredibly inspiring story of heroism.  Real heroism.