89) After all the search parties, rescue teams, and satellite images, it seemed fitting that the crash site of Steve Fossett, who made his name as a solo adventurer, would be found by a lone hiker. Thank you, PRESTON MORROW, for giving his story an ending.

88) Convenience-store owner KENT COUCH, 48, wasn't the first to fly a lawn chair rigged with party balloons—that distinction went to Larry Walters in 1982—but he went the farthest, floating 235 miles from Bend, Oregon, to Cambridge, Idaho, and brought himself back to earth with a pellet gun.

87) What's not to love about URBAN GARDENS? They green up the landscape and provide residents with fresh, local food. Some, like Philadelphia's Greensgrow Farms, which sits on the site of a former steel-galvanizing factory and makes its own honey, even turn a tidy profit, while others are more education-focused, like Growing Power, a Milwaukee-based organization headed by Will Allen, who received a 2008 MacArthur "genius grant" for his efforts.

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86) Former assistant managing editor MEGAN MICHELSON, who was crowned U.S. Extreme Telemark Champion on March 22 in Crested Butte, Colorado, after entering on a whim. A week later, she won the first-ever World Telemark Freeskiing Championships, in Alyeska, Alaska. Now we feel better about all those times she smoked us, like so many sausages, on the hill.

85) Burma's military junta notwithstanding, the world was there for the 2.5 million victims of Cyclone Nargis last May. Pledges of relief totaling $482 million poured in, including 220 water pumps, 28,000 tons of food, and 99,000 roofing sheets for schools. The idea of the "INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY" suddenly seemed less abstract.

84) Calling the result "anti-snow porn," LEEWARD CINEMA created the first-ever professional "human-powered" snowboard film. Twenty of the world's best, like Jeremy Jones and Markku Koski, trekked into huck-worthy terrain throughout the Sierra Nevada sans snowmobiles, lifts, or helicopters—just split-boards and snowshoes.

83) Australian scientists advanced fuel-cell technology by eliminating finicky platinum in favor of a thin, porous fabric we've loved for years—GORE-TEX—making hybrid cars cheaper and more reliable.

82) Kelly Slater's Best Wave of 2008
"I was at Padang Padang, in Bali. The wave breaks with two barrel sections, the first sort of a setup for the second. The wave was two or three times overhead when it stood up. I pulled into the first barrel for a second or two as the end of the wave unloaded on the inside reef. I stalled off the bottom and pulled into the next barrel with hardly any speed, so the whole thing would suck me in and pass me up. The tube monster—the whitewash from the crashing lip—was trying to eat me, but it actually pushed me along in the tube and out the end. I stood up a little early coming out, and the lip hit me in the head, which made the exit a bit more interesting. But I couldn't believe I caught a wave like that during my first session there. One of the best I've ever been lucky enough to ride." (SLATER WON HIS NINTH WORLD TITLE THIS YEAR.)

81–80) Portland takes pride in being America's most bike-friendly city. So after six cyclists died in traffic accidents there last year, the local government spent nearly $50,000 to create BIKE BOXES at more than a dozen busy intersections. The clearly marked squares allow cyclists to line up in front of cars so they don't get lost in blind spots. Police immediately began warning drivers who ignored the boxes. Cycling fatalities for 2008, to date: Zero. And EARL BLUMENAUER, congressman from Oregon's Third District, which includes most of Portland, inserted language in the $700 billion bailout bill that will offer tax breaks of $20 per month for bike commuters.