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...that they help you keep your balance, especially on a cracked pavement or an uneven surface. Because the wheels' tilt is offset by the weight of your foot, the skate actually feels sturdier than most inline skates. Experienced skaters may find the LandRollers a little clunky and heavier than other popular skates, but for beginners longing to roll with the rest of the crowd, these two-wheelers do an admirable job of reducing the fear factor. Next Product: Get Down And Boogie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best Inventions 2005: Sporting Life | 11/13/2005 | See Source »

...races. If you're driving an Indy car at 220 m.p.h., he says, the aerodynamics are so good, you can pretty much floor it all the time. "You're thinking about what you're going to have for dinner while you're sitting there," he says. Stock cars are heavier, 700-h.p. Neanderthals, custom-built throwback machines. "At the end of a straightaway, you've got to use the brakes and force 3,400 lbs. to change direction, which it doesn't want to do." And you've got other drivers who think nothing of sitting on your rear bumper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NASCAR's Driving Force | 11/7/2005 | See Source »

...only do minority women professionals care for their communities, but many also shoulder family burdens that are heavier than those of their white colleagues. Among businesswomen of color, 54% have children at home, compared with 38% of white businesswomen. Sixty percent earn more than their spouses; 34% pay for housing for children who aren't their own. African-American women professionals 28 to 44 are more than twice as likely as whites to be single mothers. Yet many are hesitant to share their burdens with their employers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Race, Gender & Work: Pathways to Power | 11/6/2005 | See Source »

...naively runs towards a group of rebels dressed in rags. Caught in a trap of destiny, he has to choose between a brutal death or a brutal life. He chooses life and finds himself metamorphosed into one of those thousands of child soldiers dressed in rags, carrying guns heavier than their bodies, whose stories rarely float to the surface...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fall Arts Preview: Books Listings | 9/30/2005 | See Source »

...Judge Achmad Sobari; in Jakarta. Darmawan, a former courier from East Java, received the harshest penalty yet for the attack, which killed 10 people. Three others implicated in the bombing are now serving jail terms of up to seven years. Unrepentant, Darmawan told the court, "You will receive heavier punishment than what you have meted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 9/19/2005 | See Source »

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