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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Because some friends of your rival clubbed you on the knee a month before the big skate. And maybe the real or imagined slight goads the grudging one to greatness. Revenge spurs nearly every movie plot; why shouldn't it juice the adrenaline that an athlete needs to excel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Summer Olympics: Gold-Medal Grudges | 9/11/2000 | See Source »

...content to excel in academia, Schultz, 44, has also been busy founding companies: Affymax (1988), to hunt for new drugs; Symyx Technologies (1994), to develop advanced materials; SyrrX (2000), to sell protein structures to drug companies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Combinatorial Chemistry: Doing It Nature's Way | 8/7/2000 | See Source »

...liability at this stage of his development may be his size. He may have to add some more weight to his 185-pound frame to excel in the rough-and-tumble Eastern Conference...

Author: By Michael R. Volonnino, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Four Harvard Players Taken in NHL Draft | 6/30/2000 | See Source »

...survey my fellow graduates, and I do not doubt that we will all excel above all others," Stetsko said. "But, now, now, I look out and realize that none of you can understand a single word...

Author: By William P. Bohlen and Imtiyaz H. Delawala, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Amid Pageantry, 6,165 Graduates Receive Degrees | 6/23/2000 | See Source »

...create these designs in suitably advanced neural computers. By that time, computers will greatly exceed the basic computational power of the human brain. The result will be machines that combine the complex and rich skills of humans with the speed, accuracy and knowledge-sharing ability that machines excel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will My PC Be Smarter Than I Am? | 6/19/2000 | See Source »

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