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We are all very excited that the weather is turning much warmer; it's a far cry from the howling gale we encountered as we exited the Strait of Magellan nearly two weeks ago.
A WP Sunday Outlook piece, written by Fidelity Magellan Fund legend Peter Lynch, argues that through nine recessions, a presidential assassination, multiple wars, and numerous political scandals the stock market has increased in value.
In a similar vein, several of the engineers have braved the elements by appearing at our daily all-hands gatherings on the flight deck without coats; only to be outdone by a petty officer who wore shorts through the frigid Strait of Magellan!
While Plotz is right that the number of challenges remaining seems to be decreasing--it could hardly increase--I find it almost impossible to believe that previous record-setters were driven by the kind of practical, commercial concerns that Plotz ascribes to Ferdinand Magellan and Dick Rutan.
Magellan's benefactors, though, never bankrolled a technical advance quite like the Allen Brain Atlas.