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...People from all walks of life compete. Some just want to cross the finish line, others want to win (the time difference between the front runners and the back of the field can be in excess of 50 hours by each race's end). Competitors range between 21 and 67 years of age and come from more than 130 countries. Often, families and groups of friends enter together. Sometimes, companies use the races as team-building exercises or charitable endeavors - Microsoft entered three top executives from their Seattle headquarters in this year's Gobi race, known as the Gobi March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Long March | 7/31/2008 | See Source »

...Before she left for Disneyland, though, she had to finish editing a YouTube video to promote Trophies, her new novel about second wives. In the video, Gore Vidal narrates while dolls - one of which is voiced by Catherine Bach - act out a scene in which they talk about very dirty things while planning a fund raiser. It's a lot like Sex and the City, if Carrie and Samantha got husbands and all the shoes they wanted and then got so bored that they tried to end the war in Iraq. And as ridiculous as that might appear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Activism, Hollywood-Style | 7/23/2008 | See Source »

...established at least twice: once in 2000, when he attended a football match, and again in 2003, when he underwent minor surgery in a Belgrade military hospital. Ljajic vows that Mladic is next: "We have just proved we're serious about war-crimes issues," he says. "We intend to finish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Karadzic Called to Reckoning | 7/23/2008 | See Source »

...leitmotif of the tournament. Three weeks after he married tennis great Chris Evert, Norman had defied all expectations by displaying three rounds of breathtaking golf redolent of the form that won him British Open Championships in 1986 and 1993. But his final-round 77 and tied third-place finish behind England's Ian Poulter further cement his standing as golf's most heartbreaking avatar of almost-but-not-quite. Yesterday included, Norman has now led seven times going into the final day of a major without going on to win (his only front-of-the-pack victory was at Turnberry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Harrington Beats Norman at Birkdale | 7/20/2008 | See Source »

...crossed the finish line atop the Pyrenees on Sunday, Riccò lifted his hands up from the handlebars, kissed his two index fingers and pointed three times to his own chest, as if to say, "It's me, I'm the one." Yes, you're the one who was about to break our hearts again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drugs Scandal Hits Tour de France | 7/17/2008 | See Source »

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