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...India have known for thousands of years: the ordinary human body has almost unlimited powers and wonderful potential. As proof, we can look at the human beings who climbed Mount Everest without oxygen or who swam 100 km nonstop or who calculated the square root of a 27-digit number faster than a computer. All these feats were achieved by ordinary people just like you and me. The overwhelming majority of humans do not realize what they possess, and hence the power lies dormant. It is only when faith activates this potential that so-called miracles take place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 22, 1996 | 7/22/1996 | See Source »

...dense with unassuming, homespun heroes and heroines: from James Fenimore Cooper's Deerslayer to Mark Twain's Tom and Huck, to Will Rogers and Ma and Pa Kettle and the Clampetts of Beverly Hills, to Forrest Gump, who took the myth one step further by demonstrating that a double-digit IQ could lead to immense worldly success if accompanied by a good heart and simple decency. It is the essence of Capra's best-loved heroes. Jefferson Smith must contend with the schemes of Senator Paine, his onetime hero who plays a scene decked out in white tie and tails...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I'M JUST THAT SIMPLE | 6/10/1996 | See Source »

...arrived and metastasized into a monster: shrieking winds blew sheets of snow horizontally at 65 knots. A "whiteout" dropped visibility to zero, and wind chill plunged to -140[degrees] F. "It was chaos up there," says Krakauer. "The storm was like a hurricane, only it had a triple-digit wind chill. You don't have your oxygen on, you're out of breath, you can't think." In one horrifying vignette after another, the mountain began picking off its conquerors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEATH STORM ON EVEREST | 5/27/1996 | See Source »

...time to leave this office has come, and I will seek the presidency with nothing to fall back on but the judgment of the people, and nowhere to go but the White House or home." As he struggles to connect with voters and overcome President Clinton's double-digit lead, Dole is betting not only his career but his entire sense of himself that Bob Dole the man will play better than Bob Dole the Senator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Risking it All | 5/16/1996 | See Source »

Kentucky began the season ranked first in the Associated Press poll, were favored to win last night by a double-digit margin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Some Students Watch NCAA Championship | 4/2/1996 | See Source »

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