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What makes a Guinness World Record?

For adjudicators from Guinness World Records, it takes some record-setting nerves to judge a world-record attempt as successful. Guinness may get a thousand applications every week to break a world record, and during a time of pandemic, when social distancing prevents mass-participation records, they have even set up weekly at-home challenges. But you have to go outdoors to pursue what one team in Colorado recently attempted: the world’s largest fireworks shell ever launched. Lee Cowan reports. Source

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Impatience: Why we don’t want to wait

The phrase “patience is a virtue” is often easier spoken than practiced, especially in our exasperating times. Barry Petersen set out before the COVID-19 pandemic hit to learn just why we dislike waiting so much, and what we can do to keep our cool in an impatient world. He spoke to one researcher about the science behind impatience. Source

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Where is Jennifer Kesse?

A young woman vanishes from her Florida condo – security footage captures a phantom figure calmly parking her car. Is it the kidnapper? “48 Hours” correspondent Peter Van Sant reports. Source

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