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Although the Post quotes an expert labeling this a "significant ideological shift," a NYT story on the announcement, run inside, focuses instead on China's inability to grow fast enough to assure jobs for its ballooning workforce.
But today ballooning is the pastime of the gentleman adventurer.
Fossett (who's worth only $25 million to $50 million) is equally insouciant: He has driven in the Le Mans 24-Hour Race, raced sled dogs in the Iditarod, completed the Ironman triathlon, run an ultramarathon, and set the ballooning distance and endurance records.
(No ballooning story is complete without reference to Phileas Fogg in Around the World in Eighty Days . So here it is.)
The third-generation Piccard, no less a daredevil, is reduced to competitive ballooning.)