The reason why Commodore decided not to use the upper five tracks by default ( or at least more than 35 ) was the bad quality of some of the drive mechanisms which did not always work reliably at the highest tracks.

Death Valley holds the record for the highest reliably reported temperature in the world, 134 ° F ( 56. 7 ° C ) at Furnace Creek on July 10, 1913.

Amtrak operated the City of New Orleans reliably through the 1980s and into the 1990s ; in 1992, the City of New Orleans had the highest on-time performance rate of all Amtrak services at 87 %.

Oodnadatta has a desert climate ( Köppen climate classification BWh ) and has also recorded the highest reliably measured maximum temperature in Australia: 50. 7 ° C ( 123. 3 F ) on 2 January 1960.

Individuals have been clocked at speeds of up to, which is the highest speed reliably reported in any water creature.

Engineering graduates of Illinois Institute of Technology are reported receiving the highest average starting salaries in the school's history -- $550 a month.

The Postmaster General recently reported that mail order frauds -- among which fake therapeutic devices figure prominently -- are at the highest level in history.

During the 1990s, the first peak was measured with increasing sensitivity and by 2000 the BOOMERanG experiment reported that the highest power fluctuations occur at scales of approximately one degree.

Also according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, The New Yorkers renewal rate ( the percentage of subscribers who renew their subscription each year ) is 85 %— one of the highest reported rates in the industry.

he was reported to have the highest citation index among Russian scientists, and h-index of 40.

The coumarin scopoletin is present in whisky, with the highest level reported in Bourbon whiskey.

, the highest finite Bacon number reported by the Oracle of Bacon is 8.

On June 5, 2007, the regional subsidiary of national broadcaster DR reported that a hill, Kobanke, situated in the southeast near the town Rønnede in Faxe municipality, with a natural point of terrain at 122. 9 m ( 403. 21 feet ), was the highest natural point on Zealand.

The air was measured for dioxins from September 23, 2001, to November 21, 2001, and reported to be " likely the highest ambient concentration that have ever been reported history.

* In a 2001 case study, physicians reported clinical changes in a 30-year-old woman who had been exposed to a massive dosage ( 144, 000 pg / g blood fat ) of dioxin equal to 16, 000 times the normal body level ; the highest dose of dioxin ever recorded in a human.

Amtrak points out that in 2010, its farebox recovery ( percentage of operating costs covered by revenues generated by passenger fares ) was 79 %, the highest reported for any U. S. passenger railroad.

The highest capacity cells on the market are reported to have the highest self-discharge rates.

This was followed by a contract renewal in 1938, after which she was reported to be the highest paid performer in Hollywood with a salary of $ 426, 924.

Supporters of fox hunting claim that the number of foxes killed has increased since the ban, that hunts have reported an increase in membership and that around 320, 000 people ( their highest recorded number ) turned up to fox hunts on Boxing Day 2006.

highest point: In the Mowdok range at 1052 m ( at N 21 ° 47 ' 12 " E 92 ° 36 ' 36 "), NOT Keokradong ( 883 m not 1, 230 m ) or Tajingdong ( 985 m not 1, 280 m as sometimes reported )

According to Benjamin Edelman, who reported his findings in the article " Red Light States: Who Buys Online Adult Entertainment ?," published in the most recent edition of the Journal of Economic Perspectives, Sevier County has the highest rate of online pornography usage in the United States.

A difference of almost 100 times separate countries with the highest and lowest reported infant mortality rates.

Air Force has ranked highest of all undergraduate-only universities in federally-funded research as reported by the National Science Foundation, surpassing $ 60 million in 2010.

Furthermore, DeKalb County saw the highest death toll in Alabama during a massive tornadic system in late April 2011 April 25 – 28, 2011 tornado outbreak, with 31 deaths reported in the county.

It consisted of a verse of iambic trimeter, followed by a verse of iambic dimeter, and it is reported that, although the epode was carried to its highest perfection by Stesichorus, an earlier poet, Archilochus, was really the inventor of this form.

The last reported judicial opinion in the case was a ruling by New York's second highest court that the case could not be resolved upon briefs and affidavits but must go to trial.

* 1960 – Joseph Kittinger parachutes from a balloon over New Mexico at, setting three records that still stand today: High-altitude jump, free fall, and highest speed by a human without an aircraft.

* 2. 45 m — highest jump by a human being ( Javier Sotomayor )

In August 2005, AJ Hackett added a SkyJump to the Macau Tower, making it the world's highest jump at.

The SkyJump did not qualify as the world's highest bungee as it is not strictly speaking a bungee jump, but instead what is referred to as a ' Decelerator-Descent ' jump, using a steel cable and decelerator system, rather than an elastic rope.

On 16 August 1960, Joseph Kittinger, in the Excelsior III test jump, set the current world record for the highest parachute jump.

* Excelsior III free-fall from a Stratospheric Balloon, Details of the highest parachute jump ever.

Allende was a talented athlete in his youth, being a member of the Everton de Viña del Mar sports club ( named after the more famous English football club of the same name and which regularly competes at the highest level in Chilean football ), where he is said to have excelled at the long jump.

There were bright spots ; in January 1967, Johnson boasted that wages were the highest in history, unemployment was at a 13-year low, and corporate profits and farm incomes were greater than ever ; a 4. 5 percent jump in consumer prices was worrisome, as was the rise in interest rates.

After the events in So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, Arthur Dent and his love interest Fenchurch attempt to sightsee across the Galaxy, but when Fenchurch disappears during a hyperspace jump due to being from an unstable sector of the Galaxy, Arthur becomes depressed and travels the Galaxy alone, raising money to pay his passage by donating his biological material to DNA banks ( mostly sperm, due to it having the highest payout ).

In this release, the character of " Mama ", who had the highest jump among the original cast, served as the template for Luigi, resulting in his taller, thinner look, combined with his Marioesque outfit and ubiquitous green color scheme.

He set historical numbers for highest balloon ascent, highest parachute jump, longest drogue-fall ( four minutes ), and fastest speed by a human being through the atmosphere .< ref >

Each character has different strengths ; Mario runs faster ; Luigi can jump the highest of the four ; Toad can run and pluck vegetables the fastest but can't jump well ; and Peach can jump the farthest, due to her ability to hover for a short time, though she is the slowest runner and slowest at plucking items from the ground.

After his victory, Curtis jumped from 396th in the world rankings to 35th, the highest jump for any person.

It is also known for having the highest bungee jump in the Americas at.

The current world record for highest jump in a half-pipe is held by freestyle skier Peter Olenick.

At 233 meters, the Macau Tower's tethered " skyjump " and Bungee jump by AJ Hackett from the tower's outer rim, is the second highest commercial skyjump in the world, after Vegas ' Stratosphere skyjump at 260 meters.

Near the park is the Bloukrans Bridge and Bloukrans Bridge Bungy which is the world's third highest bungee jump,

Stuntman Dar Robinson, doubling for Henry Silva at the end of the film, dropped from what appeared to be the Westin Peachtree Plaza, setting a record for the highest freefall ( unrestrained ) jump from a building in a film.

On 8 June 2006, Australian couple Heather Swan and Glenn Singleman jumped from 21, 780 ft ( 6, 640 m ) of Meru Peak in India setting a world record for highest Wisbase jump.