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  1. Finding Emilie

    While in college, Alan fell hard for a fellow art student, Emilie.

    Nine months after they started dating, the unimaginable happened - Alan lost Emilie in a distant netherworld. But then he found her again. This is the story of how.

    Finding Emilie is one of eight winning stories in the 2011 Third Coast/Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition. It was produced in 2011 for WNYC’s Radiolab, by Jad Abumrad with Robert Krulwich and Soren Wheeler.

    http://www.thirdcoastfestival.org/library/1003-finding-emilie

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  2. Loop the Loop (Radiolab)

    Lincoln Beachey is one of the most famous men you’ve never heard of. Born in 1887 in San Francisco, Beachy was lonely, chubby kid who, as authors Sam Kean and Frank Marrero tell us, nobody would have suspected of becoming a hero. But he was fearless. By the age of 10 he was hurling himself down San Francisco’s stomach-churning Fillmore Hill on a bicycle with no brakes.

    But what Beachy really wanted to do was fly airplanes. Then one day, while working as a mechanic at an airshow in Los Angeles, he got his big break: a star pilot got hurt, and Beachey leaped in to take his place. He shot upwards, 3,000 feet into the air…and his motor failed. He went into a nose-diving spin that no pilot had ever survived. And he did what no pilot had ever done: he turned into the spin, regained control, and landed safe and sound.

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