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You’ve heard of bio-diesel and ethanol. Now imagine filling your car up with air. That’s exactly what MDI, the creators of the first car to run on compressed air, say you could be doing soon.

The car, which runs on a combination of compressed air and fuel, is said to get up to 106 miles per gallon. (In comparison, the hybrid Toyota Prius only gets about 50 mpg.) It would be wonderful to be able to double the miles per gallon a hybrid is able to get. But is it realistic?

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If you listened to last week’s episode of Adventure Edge Radio, you heard the interview with Charlie Engle. Charlie is a recovering drug and alcohol addict who overcame his disease and became a philanthropic endurance runner.

Charlie recently ran 4500 miles across the Sahara Desert in order to raise money and awareness for the lack of water in the region. And now he’s ‘Running America’ to help raise money for, and awareness of, childhood obesity here at home. He’s also looking to set a new record for running across the country in 45 days or less. Running America, which will be filmed and made into a documentary, begins on 9/13/08 in San Francisco. From there, Charlie and another endurance runner, Marshall Ulrich, will run an average of 68 miles a day and end in New York on or before 10/28/08.

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Lance Armstrong took second place in the Leadville, CO 100 Mile Mountain Bike Race this past weekend. While six-time Leadville 100 winner David Wiens beat Armstrong by two minutes - they both broke the course record. Susan Williams took first place in the women’s division.

Check out the video below to watch interviews with all three racers…

It’s no secret the female gymnasts on China’s Olympic gymnastics team look a little young. But are they too young to compete?

There has been a lot of speculation about the ages of the Chinese gymnasts. He Xexin, in particular, looks strikingly young. We’re talking very young. Because Olympians must turn 16 in the year of the Olympics to compete in them, many are questioning whether or not He is old enough to be out on the floor. While her birthday is “officially” listed as Jan 1, 1992, news agencies aren’t so sure.

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Arches National Park in Utah now has one less arch. “Wall Arch” collapsed last week due to gravity and erosion. The fragile sandstone arch, along the popular Devil’s Garden Trail, is the first arch to collapse since 1991. Luckily, no one was hurt when the great arch fell.

There’s no word on whether rock climbers and illegal climbs contributed to the collapse of the arch, but it doesn’t sound like that was the case. However, if there was any damage to Wall Arch from climbers (like the possible damage to Delicate Arch after Dean Potter climbed it), it certainly could have added stress to the delicate rock formation, which was 33 feet tall and 71 feet across.

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