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Courage: Ailing aerialist Angel Wallenda made her...

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Courage: Ailing aerialist Angel Wallenda made her first public appearance in a year--and walked a tightrope in Stone Mountain, Ga. Wallenda has inoperable lung cancer and a prosthesis replaces half the right leg she lost to cancer. Just two weeks ago, Wallenda was hospitalized for a collapsed lung and her other lung is permanently collapsed. In two shows, Wallenda, 23, walked across the 30-foot wire and then rode the distance on her husband’s shoulders. She was in Georgia to receive the Norman Vincent Peale Award for positive thinking.

Grab the Ring: The big question now is: Who gets to keep the $250,000 ring--Donald, Marla or Harry? Donald Trump revealed Sunday that he has broken up with fiancee Marla Maples, this time for good, he says. So what about the 7.45-carat diamond engagement ring? The New York tabs say Trump never paid for it: The Harry Winston jewelry company gave it to him, knowing it would bring publicity. Now the question is: What kind of publicity would the store get if it repossessed the ring?

Pulitzer Posse: More than 300 past Pulitzer Prize winners--novelists Norman Mailer and John Updike, poet Gwendolyn Brooks and cartoonist Herbert L. Block among them--gathered Sunday to mark the 75th anniversary of journalism’s highest honor. “It’s nice to be here in a frantic sort of way,” Updike said at Columbia University in New York. Newspaper columnist Russell Baker, a two-time Pulitzer winner, said looking at the audience was a “macabre experience. . . . I know how the obituaries of one half of you will begin: ‘Pulitzer-Prize winning. . . .’ ”

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Trip: Britain’s Princess Diana is making her longest official trip abroad without husband Prince Charles as she visits Pakistan this week. The Princess of Wales, wife of the heir to the British throne, said in Islamabad Monday she would visit a drug detox center and a school for the disabled--projects close to her heart--and visit the famed Khyber Pass on the border with Afghanistan.

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