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...guitar solo this time; in fact, I don't hear a guitar at all, just the pumping piano and the pulverized drums. The first instrumental verse starts with a sassy, Jelly Roll Morton-style line, then bangs out another four-time, four-note, four-on-the-floor figure with, this time, four arpeggios; it's how a sex-crazed Tex Avery cartoon wolf would express himself if he could play hot piano. Then the right hand pounds the same four high keys while the left hand describes a familiarly stealthy boogie-woogie figure, creeping up and down the lower register...
...SERIOUS FUN It's too late to register as a team for Oxfam's annual Trailwalker fund raiser, an arduous hike through Hong Kong's New Territories along the MacLehose Trail. But for solo souls willing to train with strangers, the event's website offers an online bulletin board that matches teams with new members. While billed as a walkathon, competition is fierce and many teams treat the fund raiser as an ultra marathon. Last year's fastest team, Montrail Protrek, set a new record, completing the 100-kilometer trek in just under 13 hours. Click on www.trailwalker.org.hk to learn...
...Posties burned themselves out and fell away like booster stages on a rocket launch as they led Armstrong on a chase of 33-year-old Laurent Jalabert of France on the final climb to La Mongie. The soon-to-be-retired JaJa had been on a solo break for about 40 km in pursuit of a stage win when he turned to see Armstrong, fellow Postie Roberto Heras and once's Beloki charge past with about 3 km remaining. With 200 meters to go, Armstrong pulled away to win the stage and the yellow jersey, which he never relinquished...
...balloon ride seemed like a serene activity for surveying pastoral landscapes, best undertaken with foie gras and a fine wine. But the Chicago millionaire has turned ballooning into an endurance sport requiring deprivation and a ground crew. Since 1998, the adventurer has tried to complete the first solo circumnavigation of the globe by balloon. After five attempts--most of which ended abruptly in large bodies of water--he made it. But by staying far south, he shortened what would have been a nearly 25,000-mile journey at the equator to 19,428 miles. He spent 15 days in freezing...
...Winners STEVE FOSSETT U.S. millionaire is first solo balloonist to circumnavigate the world. His immortal first words on landing: "Wait, what's an airplane...