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...race--and that was the least of his feats. In 1959 Ted Corbitt, dubbed the "father of American distance running," introduced Americans to the "ultramarathon"--a race that is longer, often significantly so, than the traditional 26 miles (42 km)--with a 30-mile (48??km) event in New York. The co-founder of the Road Runners Club of America, he trained by running 200 miles (320 km) a week and won 30 of his 199 events. The secret? "[You] have to be very strange," he said. "You don't have to ... beat someone--you just have to get through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 12/20/2007 | See Source »

Cost of a proposed state-record fine in Virginia against Verizon for poor service during the first five months of 2006. The company failed to fix approximately 170,000 phone outages within 48??hr., as required...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NUMBERS: Nov. 12, 2007 | 11/2/2007 | See Source »

...were logging results by hand. What if this product could do it for them? The result was nikeplus.com "The site puts you and your achievements at the heart of this," says Olander. About 500,000 runners from more than 160 countries have signed on, and some 30 million miles (48??million km) have been uploaded. The site graphs distances for each jog and can tell runners how fast they were going at each point along the way. A map function lets them view popular routes in their neighborhoods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cool Runnings | 10/4/2007 | See Source »

Cream (Gal) 20¢ 48?...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE TARIFF: Nightmare's End | 3/31/1930 | See Source »

Opened in London, last week, but not yet patronized by the Royal Family, was a "Public Inhalatorium." Poor persons with colds may pay tuppence (4¢) to sit in a large chamber inhaling beneficial gases. Individuals of the middle classes will doubtless choose to pay two shillings (48??) for a booth in which they may sniff privately...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Crown | 1/28/1929 | See Source »

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