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U.S. balloonist circles globe alone / Adventurer spent 13 1/2 days floating above Southern Hemisphere
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American millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett's balloon rises into the sky after being launched from the township of Northam, 100 kilometres east of Perth in Western Australia August 5, 2001. Fossett is making
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