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friends. Regis' morning show with Kelly Ripa also"keeps rollin' along," and it looks as if "Who Wants toBe a Millionaire?" also could go somewhere. ... Moreon his private life: As far as I know, Regis was born inNew York and attended Notre Dame University. Hewas named Regis after his father's alma mater, aCatholic boys' school. He was married and divorcedfrom Kay Faylan, and then married Joy Senese.Has four children: Amy, Dan, Joanne and Jennifer.And this should be enough about Regis for now.Beyonce is not only beautiful but can sing herheart out. She also is a very good actress, asproven in her film "Obsessed." Offers arepouring in for dramatic roles, roles for asinger and every kind of movie one canimagine. Call it the "Beyonce Bounce," be-cause if ever a singer-actress is bouncing tothe top of the list, it's Beyonce.Amanda Peet joins the cast of "Guilliver's

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• The oldest tree currently standing is a Great Basin Brittlecone Pine in California. It is namedafter the Biblical character of Methuselah and is estimated to be about 4,800 years old.• There is an older tree – well, root system. The current tree isn’t ancient, but its root system isestimated to have taken hold in Sweden approximately 9,550 years ago after the last ice age. Itwas discovered in Swedish scientists in 2004.• The world’s longest fingernails belong to Shridar Chillal of India. His thumbnail alone is overfour feet long! He’s been growing his nails since 1952 and his hand is permanently disfiguredfrom the weight of them.• Bao Xishun of China is currently the world record holder for tallest man. He is 7 ft 8.95 in(2.36 m) tall. Leonid Stadnyk of the Ukraine measures 8 ft 5.5 in (2.5 m), but has refused to letGuinness measure him officially, so Bao currently holds the title.• The Guinness World Record for smallest dog belongs to “Heaven Sent Brandy,” a Chihuahuawho measures just six inches from her tail to the tip of her nose.• The longest highway belongs to Canada. The Trans-Canada Highway took twenty years tocomplete and stretches from Victoria, British Columbia to St. John’s, Newfoundland and meas-ures in at 4,860 mi (7,821 km).• The record for oldest animal in the world belonged to Harriet the Galapagos Land Tortoise,who celebrated her 175th birthday back in 2005. Harriet died in 2006, just shy of her 176thbirthday and is estimated to have hatched before the Civil War back in 1830.• The longest wall in the world? This one’s easy - it’s the Great Wall of China! But do youknow how long it really measures? It stretches and winds over 3,768 mi (6,000 km) acrossChina, is 25 ft (7.62 m) tall and is up to 30 ft (9.14) thick in some sections.• The world’s longest snake ever found was a python in Indonesia. It was found in 1912 andmeasured over 32 ft 9.5 in (10 m).• The world’s tallest man-made structure hasn’t even been finished and it already holds a worldrecord! The Burj Dubai skyscraper in Dubai towers a whopping 2,684 ft (818 m) off the

ground. It will have 160 inhabitable floors, the most of any building in the world. It is nearlytwice the height of the Empire State Building and will open in September of this year.• The longest interstate is I-90 and runs from Seattle to Boston. It would be a 3,100 mi (5,000km) trip if you drove it end to end.• The world’s longest mountain range is the Andes. They line the cost of South America,stretching 4,500 miles (7,500 km) from Cape Horn to Venezuela.• It takes Neptune 164.79 Earth years to orbit the sun, but this could be because it has to travel17,561,814,000 mi (28,263,000,000 km) to complete the trip!• The longest serving U.S. President was Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He served over twelveyears as President and died in office in April 12, 1945.• The world’s largest cave is Mammoth Cave in Cave City, Kentucky. 350 miles of the cavesystem have been mapped although 560 miles are thought to exist.• New York City’s subway system is the largest in the world. It has 656 miles (1,056 km) oftrack in all. The longest line is the “A” 8th Avenue Express train, which is over 32 mi (51.4km) long.• You might have known that the highest point on Earth is Mount Everest, measuring in at5,497 ft (8,848 m) above sea level, but do you know what the lowest point on earth’s surfaceis? The Mariana Trench, at its maximum depth, is 6.8 mi (10.9 km) below sea level. It was firstdiscovered during the Challenger expedition (1872-1876).• In January 1960, Swiss Scientist Jacques Piccard and US Navy Lt. Don Walsh made theworld record for deepest dive when they made the 6.8 mi descent into the Challenger Deep, thelowest point in the trench.• The longest title of a book? Davide Ciliberti of Italy holds that record with the 290-word titleof a book he published in 2007.

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Kyle Busch Is His Own ManRICHMOND, Va. -- Why is Kyle Busch sogood? That is, apart from his obviouslyimpressive skill level.Busch is ambitious. He wants it all. He races inevery race he can. At Richmond, he didn't justwin on Saturday and Sunday nights. He won atSouthside Speedway on the previous Thursdaynight.At age 24, he has 15 Sprint Cup victories, 24 inthe Nationwide Series and 11 in Trucks. That's atotal of 50. Busch's mind is like a calculator. He'sconcocted the notion that maybe he can win 200races in the three series combined before he hangsup his helmet.In one sense, it's kind of meaningless. RichardPetty, of course, won 200 Cup races -- and nonein the lower series. Combining victories would belike counting the Double-A home runs of abig-league catcher. By that standard, Crash Davis(Kevin Costner's character in "Bull Durham")would be in the Hall of Fame.There's something remarkable, though, in a manwho wants to achieve something no one elsewanted to try. This is a kid who loves to race ... toan extent that borders on the absurd.

Pull over! See those lights? That might be a dirttrack. Let me call my guy on the cell.Maybe he can hitchup the trailerand get myLate Modelup here.Busch is alsoabsolutelyunafraid ofbeing himself.Many driversare little morethan cardboardcutouts. Theyhide behind theadvice ofhandlers, restingtheir assumption onthe notion that, if theykiss up enough, nice thingswill be written about them.The driver who has won 11 ofNASCAR's last 46 races shares with the drivers ofyore -- Bobby Allison, Darrell Waltrip, HarryGant, et al. -- a thirst for competition. Buschdidn't grow up in Taylorsville, though. He grewup in Las Vegas. He has that trademark flair forthe dramatic. Why does he bow to the hostilemasses? He claimed Vegas had nothing to do withit."I'm here to be myself, man," Busch said in thewee hours of Sunday after the May 2 Sprint Cuprace. "I am who I am. Everybody is who they are,

for whatever reason. I don't think it's necessarilythe way you're raised or where you're

raised, or whatever. I just thinkwhat you believe in, what your

beliefs are, what allhappens around you asyou grow up and stuff."For me, it's fun tocome out here and,I guess, play thevillain rolesometimes, andyet be liked othertimes. It's alwayscool to have thataspect in this sport.Even if I wasn't in

this sport, you know,doing something else,

you've got to be happywith the way you're living life

and doing what you're doing.Otherwise, it's not worth living or not

worth doing what you're doing."Kyle Busch is his own man in a world where feware at his age. His theme song ought to be "I GottaBe Me.".

Monte Dutton has covered motorsports for The Gaston (N.C.) Gazettesince 1993. He was named writer of the year by the National Motor-sports Press Association in 2008. His blog NASCAR This Week(http://nascar.rbma.com) features all of his reporting on racing, rootsmusic and life on the road. E-mail Monte [email protected].


Kyle Busch is gunning tobeat Richard Petty's record of200 Cup victories by winning in

three series combined.(Getty Images)


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