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...Grand Tour Spanish superstars Real Madrid flew to Asia last summer on a publicity tour, shortly after signing David Beckham (above), the game's highest-earning player and Asia's favorite footballer. The team posed for gaggles of screaming fans, beat some lumbering local teams?and flew home more than $12 million richer, thanks to record sales of team jerseys and to fans like the 44,000 in Tokyo who paid $27 each to watch practice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Piece Of The Action | 5/31/2004 | See Source »

...KNEW THAT SOMETHING ABSOLUTELY OVERWHELMING WAS GOING TO TAKE PLACE." --John Robinson A pilot with the 344th Bomb Group, Robinson, 24, flew two successful sorties over Normandy on June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: D-Day: What They Saw When They Landed | 5/31/2004 | See Source »

...flew Martin B-26 Marauders, which were, without any doubt, the best bombers in the whole wide world. Several weeks prior to June 5, the squadron doctor had passed out a small pill to each crew member. He said the pills were intended to keep the crews awake in case we had to work around the clock. Everybody knew that this was in preparation for D-day. I don't know how they worked on anybody else, but they kept me awake for three nights and three days, completely unable to sleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: D-Day: What They Saw When They Landed | 5/31/2004 | See Source »

...RECENTLY KOBE BRYANT GOT UP AT 4:00 A.M., FLEW TO COLORADO TO PLEAD NOT GUILTY IN HIS SEXUAL-ASSAULT CASE AND THEN RETURNED TO LOS ANGELES TO SCORE 42 POINTS IN A PLAYOFF GAME. HOW IS HE DOING THIS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Kareem Abdul-Jabbar | 5/24/2004 | See Source »

...father, who owned Mack Trucks, the young Fulton took his 18-month trip home after completing school in Vienna. He later embarked on an inspired if eccentric career as an inventor. In 1950, he built a flying car called the Airphibian, a high-wing monoplane, which on one occasion flew from Maine to California. One of his inventions was a precursor to the modern flight simulator; another, the Fulton Skyhook, designed to extract spies from enemy territory, was featured in the 1965 James Bond movie Thunderball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones May 24, 2004 | 5/24/2004 | See Source »

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