7 Craziest Guinness Records
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Can you punch out 10 TV sets in under eight seconds? In honor of Guinness World Records day, watch the strangest records someone, somewhere, is proud to call their own.
A Mother-Son Book Bake-Off
Hyatt Bass is the author of The Embers, published by Henry Holt.
Hyatt Bass wrote a novel, The Embers. Her 5-year-old son wrote a book from a kit, The Super-brothers. And when both books launched at once, chaos ensued in their home.
A Heroes Star's Secret Identity
Kara Cutruzzula is an assistant editor at The Daily Beast.
Greg Grunberg talks about his all-star band, the killer iPhone app he created, why his 15,000 Twitter followers could be choosing his next role-and his character's death watch.
What happens when a mild-mannered physicist dabbles in the unpredictable formulas of the superhuman? No, you don't end up with a volatile accident that creates a superhuman über-man-at least not this time. Rather, you end up with a book ...
Joe Quesada is the editor in chief of Marvel Publishing. Joe also consults on Marvel Studios' Hollywood film projects that have produced a string of blockbusters including Iron Man and The Incredible Hulk.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Martin Jacques is the cofounder of the UK think tank Demos, writes a regular column for The Guardian, and is a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. His new book, When China Rules the World, is available now.
Christopher Buckley's books include Supreme Courtship, The White House Mess, Thank You for Smoking, Little Green Men, and Florence of Arabia. He was chief speechwriter for Vice President George H.W. Bush, and is editor-at-large of ForbesLife magazine. His new book is Losing Mum and Pup, a memoir. Buckley's Daily Beast column is the winner of an Online Journalism Award in the category of Online Commentary.
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Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Jeffrey Koterba is an acclaimed syndicated political cartoonist. Since joining the Omaha World-Herald in 1989, he has been a finalist for Editorial Cartoonist of the Year from the National Cartoonists Society and has placed second in the National Headliner Awards. His work is distributed through King Features Syndicate to 400 newspapers nationwide, and has appeared in such publications as the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the Washington Post, among others.
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