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...NCAA [meet] is the fastest meet in the world,” senior captain John Cole said, the veteran of four NCAA championships and the 2004 U.S. Olympic Trials. “People are breaking all sorts of records. There are so many Olympians there...
Vaillancourt—arguably the team’s fastest skater—used the Olympic-sized sheet at the Whittemore Center to her advantage all game long, skating past defenders and spreading the opposing formations thin to create scoring chances for herself and her teammates...
...they have imitators. Liberal talk is radio's fastest-growing format. If Air America hasn't yet drowned out Rush Limbaugh, it has at least found its own voice. --By Richard Corliss. Reported by Carolina A. Miranda
There's a lot of growth to control. From 1990 to 2003, Arizona's population increased 53%, making it the second fastest growing state in the nation, after Nevada (another desert state, whose population grew 87% in the same period). Developers working in the U.S.'s four major deserts--California's Mojave, Arizona's Sonoran, Texas and New Mexico's Chihuahuan and Nevada and Utah's Great Basin--can't build houses fast enough. In the town of La Quinta, Calif., southeast of Palm Springs, property prices jumped 48% last year, and new-home buyers have to go on waiting...
...prefecture has become Japan's most reliable and energetic commercial engine. Specializing in high-value, high-tech manufacturing, Aichi has posted one of the top economic growth rates in the nation in recent years. It boasts one of the lowest unemployment rates, the second highest household income, and the fastest rising property values-and that economic muscle is pumping a boom in construction, retailing, fashion and plain old civic pride. "In many ways, this is one of the city's finest eras," says Masahiko Mori, president of Mori Seiki, a machine-tool company that has just relocated its headquarters from...