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...them to trust you? They stay secluded by remaining down in the depths of this vast network of canyons. One reason they haven't blazed across the competitive circuit is because our kind of running is really stupid and foreign to them. We bust out as fast as we can from gun to tape, and the Tarahumara don't do that. Humans are built for endurance, not speed. We're awful sprinters, compared to every other animal. We try to run our races as if they were speed races, but they are not. They're endurance races. Even a marathon...
...releases, the three top worldwide winners are Monsters vs Aliens, Fast & Furious and X-Men Origins: Wolverine, all of which have exceeded $300 million thus far. Can you guess which of the late-2008 releases have earned about $250 million? Gran Torino and Marley & Me. As for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, it added $205 million offshore for a total of $332.6 million. And the top-grossing film worldwide since last fall, with $352.8 million: that little runt of an Anglo-Indie charmer, Slumdog Millionaire. It's like a Pixar movie, without the pixels...
...Future cost projections are even more chilling, since money to meet those projections is dwindling fast. In 2007, GM and the union estimated that it would require an investment of $57 billion to provide future health care for GM's blue collar retirees, even after trimming some benefits. GM's VEBA is more than a little shy of that number. It had $14.4 billion in the middle of 2008, and now has only $9.4 billion in assets, which is beyond the reach of creditors but would barely last three years in the face of escalating health-care costs. Gettelfinger describes...
...point that anyone who was watching the meet saw is that we were a team,” Morawski said after the meet. “If they were in a heat with their teammates, they worked with their teammates to touch them out and win. Swimming as fast as we did and staying that close to Princeton without getting the wins—that was the group effort...
...amazing time watching all of my teammates succeed and swim incredibly fast,” sophomore Kate Mills wrote in an e-mail. “Our championship truly was a team effort. We always said that we were a special team, and in the end, we proved that we really were a special group of girls. I think that speaks to the atmosphere of our year...