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...nationals with a double Mohawk -- one side dyed black, the other white. "Nelson's the wildest, most accident-prone human being who ever lived," says his coach, Chris Martin. "But you can't beat his talent." During the U.S. Olympic trials last March, Diebel swam the second fastest 100-m breaststroke in history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Star Swimmers | 7/27/1992 | See Source »

...many as five events. Sanders, maybe the team's most complete swimmer, is in the 100-m and 200-m butterfly and the 200-m and 400-m individual medley, plus a possible relay. She is likely to win only twice -- teammate Crissy Ahmann-Leighton is the fastest active 100-m butterflyer in the world, and Sanders tends to lose rhythm in the final freestyle laps of the medleys -- yet she could be somewhere on the victory podium five times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Swimming A Bigger Splash | 7/27/1992 | See Source »

...become the world's best long jumper. In June, Lewis ate the dust of Mark Witherspoon and Dennis Mitchell at the 100-m U.S. Olympic trials. Shockingly he failed to qualify for either the 100- or 200-m sprints. In Barcelona for his third Olympic appearance, the world's fastest man has an outside shot at being chosen for the 4 X 100 m-U.S. relay team. But he's only guaranteed a chance to compete in the long jump, and is not assured a medal there. Still he has stuck to his usual training regimen, and the preternatural...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Track Stars | 7/27/1992 | See Source »

...Fallen Angels," "The Land Where Legends Are Made," "The Capital of the Third World," "La-la Land"--the list of monikers for the metropolis goes on and on. Everyone from the Mamas and the Papas to Roland Barthes has theorized on the significance of the First World's fastest growing urban center...

Author: By David S. Kurnick, | Title: Pondering the Big Questions In the Land of Milk and Honey | 7/17/1992 | See Source »

Just before the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, it looked as though the Westernizers had decisively won. Russia was by then a Western-oriented constitutional monarchy with the fastest-growing capitalist economy in Europe. Yet two years later, the Bolsheviks were declaring ideological war on Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia Could Go The Asiatic Way | 7/6/1992 | See Source »

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