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...Producer Price Index (PPI) rose 0.5 percent in April, up from March's rise of just 0.2 percent. And though retail sales for April rose only 0.1 percent, inflation hawks would have much preferred a drop -- considering that April was the ninth straight month that America's drunken-sailor consumers spent more than the month before. TIME senior economics reporter Bernard Baumohl says the gentle economic slowdown those hawks were hoping for hasn't materialized -- and real inflation worries are a ways down the road...
...story sounds less and less like a CNN news brief once it's revealed that the rocket is actually bound for the moon, manned by a doddering old scientist, an alcoholic sailor, a teenage reporter named Tintin and his cockerspaniel, Snowy. No need to stop the presses--it's only the premise for Destination Moon (1959), a Sputnik-era comic book by the Belgian illustrator Herge. Tintin and his two human companions, Captain Haddock and Professor Calculus, eventually touch the surface of the moon, romp about in orange space suits and endure who-knows-how-many plots to steal...
Hays is also a prize-winning sailor and best-selling author, and he is now working on a book titled Today I am a Boy, about his Bar Mitzvah...
...sailor, explorer, inventor, best-selling author, prizewinning filmmaker, passionate environmentalist and canny businessman. Instantly recognizable by his pipe, red cap and gaunt silhouette, Jacques-Yves Cousteau--a.k.a. "Captain Planet"--was arguably the century's best known, most popular Frenchman. For generations of scuba divers--and millions of armchair explorers--he created a crystal-clear window for the unseen world beneath the waves...
...division, Harvard freshman Sean Doyle finished fifth with 126 points, although a Navy sailor also had 126 points. A Tufts sailor won with 89 points...