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This is usually accomplished by inflating a balloon in the artery, then implanting a stent to keep the artery open.
At 12:15 BST on Monday the lead balloon in the race is the American USA-2 - which has travelled 1298.93km (807m).
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Fire also brought down the balloon in Tuesday's Luxor crash.
The biggest department store in town organized a parade every year: an enormous balloon in the shape of a garishly colored doll was paraded through the main streets, pulled by ribbons that sequin-clad girls held as they marched behind a musical band.
The 6-year-old boy turned out to be hiding in his family's attic when a homemade helium balloon in their backyard somehow sprang loose, floated 50 miles through the skies, and set off a chase that dominated live news coverage for almost three hours.
Media in Hong Kong demand a full inquiry after nine of the territory's residents were among 19 tourists killed in a hot air balloon fire in Egypt's Luxor on Tuesday.
The HB-SIA craft was piloted by Bertrand Piccard, a co-founder of the effort, who is perhaps best known for being the first person to circumnavigate the globe in a hot-air balloon, in 1999.
The last hot air balloon accident in Luxor occurred in 2009, when 16 foreign tourists were injured after a balloon struck a cell phone transmission tower.
Billionaires in Russia and Ukraine have been particularly hard hit by lenders seeking repayment on balloon loans in order to shore up their own balance sheets.
The devices are used in a procedure called angioplasty, in which a balloon is snaked in through the leg and used to clear clogs in the arteries that feed the heart.
The crash recalled a somewhat similar hot air balloon accident in Egypt in February.
Fossett made an attempt at the record earlier but his balloon landed in an India mustard field after six days in the air.
There were basketball drills and contests, along with other activities such as a magician, face painters and balloon makers in a carnival-type setting.
Nobody can doubt the perilous verve of the opening, in which Joe (Daniel Craig) and his girlfriend, Claire (Samantha Morton), witness a fatal balloon accident in an English field.
Comparing it to a previous hot air balloon experience in another country, Michel noted that there was no safety briefing before the Luxor balloons lifted off the ground, but added that he felt safe during the trip.
According to initial indications, the balloon was in the process of landing after 7 a.m. when a cable got caught around a helium tube and a fire erupted, according to an investigator with the state prosecutor's office.
While the models were first cast and the paint was first mixed in New Jersey, the actual balloon was manufactured in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, with the help of a 3-D scanning program and a special machine that seals urethane panels.
Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones flew nonstop around the world in a balloon, landing safely Sunday in the Egyptian desert.
The family said Biggers "delighted in the enduring appeal of his 'Underdog' franchise, " including the balloon that appeared in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, and the 2007 live-action film.
Turned out Balloon boy was Attic boy, he was never in a balloon.
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Wiltshire explorer David Hempleman-Adams has had a good start in the Gordon Bennett Gas Balloon Race and is currently in fourth place.
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The balloon she was travelling in hit a mobile phone mast, ripping the balloon and causing an explosion that brought it crashing down.
One balloon was found in Warwickshire but organisers said the other one was "still at large in Oxfordshire".
The assumption was that the navigator lost his way before the plane struck the cable of a barrage balloon over Fishponds in Bristol.
Doctors were doing 300, 000 balloon angioplasties annually in the U.S., but in upward of 40% of cases the artery reclogged (a process known as restenosis).
When angioplasty is done, a balloon is placed in the area of the narrowed coronary artery, and it is inflated to widen the narrowed opening.
Instead, they entail a series of balloon, as in big, payments.
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