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...mile. Do that 100 times and it's an ultra-marathon. Now run those 100 miles up a mountain, or in the woods at night, or in a desert so hot that the soles of your shoes begin to melt. Sound like fun? Chris McDougall, author of Born to Run, thinks so. What started as a simple quest to explain a running injury took the former war correspondent deep into the world of ultra-running - and into the world of the Tarahumara, an indigenous race of superrunners who live deep in a canyon in Mexico. McDougall talked to TIME about...
Prabhakaran, 54, was born to a middle-class family on the Jaffna Peninsula. Incensed by discrimination against Tamils and radicalized by a militant grade-school teacher, Prabhakaran founded the LTTE in 1976, a year after a group he headed claimed responsibility for killing Jaffna's mayor. By 1983 the guerrilla movement--which pioneered suicide bombings and the recruitment of child soldiers--escalated the fighting into a civil...
...need the Faculty really to provide them with information any more,” he said. “[But] I think students have always needed help in what to do with information, how to process it, how to evaluate it.” Unfortunately, Gen Ed, born of turf wars and indecision, operating in an old-fashioned bureaucratic structure, is ill-placed to be an organizing force for the “information age.” And what the Curricular Review has shown, once and for all, is that only a thoughtless student would leave...
...Born in the Bronx in 1940, to parents whom he later claimed had been first cousins. Spector's father committed suicide when his son was 12. In 1958, when he was 17, Spector formed a band called the Teddy Bears. Their first hit was a B-side called "To Know Him Is to Love Him" (taken from the inscription on Spector's father's tombstone...
...prestigious ellerslie international Flower Show, held in March in Christchurch, New Zealand, locally born Crusaders and All Blacks scrum-half Andy Ellis did something that rugby players aren't generally known for: he picked up a gardening award. He had help from landscape-architect mate Danny Kamo, and the theme of his silver-winning entry - cricket, beer and outdoor pursuits - was all macho...