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...says Valiante, is Woods' constant quest to be better. As TIME wrote in a 2000 cover story about Woods: "What is most remarkable about Woods is his restless drive for what the Japanese call kaizen, or continuous improvement. Toyota engineers will push a perfectly good assembly line until it breaks down. Then they'll find and fix the flaw and push the system again. That's kaizen. That's Tiger." These words were written after Woods' first reconstruction of his golf swing, a revamping he undertook after winning the 1997 Masters by a record 12 strokes. Despite his continued dominance...
...couple of hours of escapism. However, if I want to learn history I go and read a history book. In fact, I read several books. In short, if Hanks wants to make movies about different periods of the past, great. They are good fun to watch. But to call them history lessons is, frankly, too much. Chris Wilkins, ZUG, SWITZERLAND...
...have dubbed this generation the junior high generation. They love vampires, zombies, cartoons. They call home many times a day. Reading, even e-mail, is too demanding; they text people in the next room. Doesn't that sound like a 12-year...
...took the iPad to dinner with journalist friends that first evening. Everyone expressed interest, but we kept the machine to the side while we gossiped about other things. We did call upon it to answer trivia: What kind of movie career did Farrah Fawcett have? Was it insignificant enough to justify her exclusion from the Oscars' annual montage of farewells last month? (Answer: She made Cannonball Run but was quite good in The Apostle. Otherwise, she was a TV star.) It was easier to look the information up on the iPad rather than switch on a computer or fumble through...
...During Thursday's phone call, Hu raised China's concerns about Taiwan and Tibet, Xinhua reported. "Taiwan and Dalai are two issues that China will always mention in occasions like this, but I don't think China will expect any constructive replies from the U.S.," says Jin. "I think China will mention those two issues just to declare their position." (See pictures of Obama visiting Asia...