Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe THIS GUY HAS 'WAY TOO MUCH MONEY Steve Fossett and his international crew aboard the 125-foot maxi-cat PlayStation have set a new W-E TransAtlantic world sailing speed record. Setting off last Friday from Ambrose Light, N.Y., they reached England Wednesday in four days, 17 hours, 28 minutes and six seconds --- beating the previous record of 6 days, 13 hours, three minutes and 32 seconds by almost 44 hours. Advertisement Fossett, a Chicago millionaire businessman, calls the accomplishment "enormously satisfying." (Web site: fossettchallenge.com) SOMEONE MAY REALLY BE MISSING THE BOAT Officials of the Florida State Lottery say time is running out for the holder of a $7 million lottery ticket to come forward and claim the winnings. The Miami Herald reports lottery officials have issued a new call for the man or woman who bought the winning ticket last April in a Winn-Dixie grocery story to contact the lottery board -- or forfeit the money. The deadline is Oct. 18. After that date, the money will return to the lottery's coffers for use as payouts in instant scratch-off games. The lottery board has put up posters in the neighborhood where the winning ticket was purchased and has even taken out a $20,000 newspaper ad, trying to find the winner. Advertisement By the way, since Florida started its lottery in 1988, about $64 million has gone unclaimed. But that is only 1 percent of the total monies ($5.7 billion) given out by the gaming program since it started. (Thanks to UPI Feature Reporter Dennis Daily) LATTE, ANYONE? Tea may be the traditional hot beverage of Japan, but it may be losing ground to coffee if Starbuck's debut on the Japanese stock market is any gauge for its future success. The Seattle-based coffee shop took Nasdaq Japan by storm Wednesday. Starbucks shares ended its first day of trading 25 percent above its initial public offering price of 64,000 yen. Since launching its first shop in Tokyo in 1996, Starbucks has gone on to establish 291 stores nationwide. The company expects the number to reach 400 within the next three years. As it did in the United States, the company has brought lattes and macchiatos into Japan's mainstream culture. Starbucks has captivated Japan's younger generation in urban areas. Getting a seat at a Starbucks in the trendy Shibuya area of Tokyo is nearly impossible, and youngsters crowd the store steps, each nursing a custom-made latte at U.S. prices of $3 or so for a brew. Advertisement REASONS TO CELEBRATE TODAY: THURSDAY: This is Gen. Pulaski Memorial Day, by presidential proclamation. It's also National Coming Out Day (Web site: hrc.org) And today is National Depression Screening Day (Web site: mentalhealthscreening.org) (Thanks to Chase's 2001 Calendar of Events) BY THE WAY... She was called "the first lady of the world." Who? Eleanor Roosevelt, the wife of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd president of the United States. Eleanor was born on this date in 1884. She was the first wife of a president to hold her own news conference at the White House, in 1933.
