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...Olympics are a celebration of instants: not just in the milliseconds ticking away on every scoreboard in the Savoie but in the larger way in which 15 years of determination can turn on a single moment. Look away from the slope for an instant, touch the side of the run for a second, and 10,000 hours of practice are gone. The athletes carry alarm clocks -- or time bombs -- in their heads and measure their lives in heartbeats (193 a minute for a biathlete). "Luge is all feeling," explained Duncan Kennedy, an American luger who won by placing 10th (higher...
...residential real estate commissions at 5%, thus adding an instant 1% to the value of every home in America and, at the same time, making real estate sales -- which produce nothing -- a little less attractive relative to teaching, which is where we really want to attract our best people. There's already tacit "price-fixing" among real estate agents -- the standard 6% commission -- so this would just fix the price a little lower. With home prices having consistently outstripped inflation for decades, until recently, real estate commissions were outstripping inflation too. Meanwhile, pay for most other lines of work, like...
When Stealth fighters and B-52s levelled the slum area of El Chorillo in Panama--creating 30,000 instant homeless and uncounted dead--when F-15Es and Tomahawks tore up the suburbs of Baghdad, they got away with it. We believed that if the military could have, they would have avoided these folks, and that if those folks lived so close to support networks, they obviously supported them...
...said. "Not me alone, but all the people who think the world can be brought together by telecommunications." The years since, and most especially the one just past, have demonstrated how emphatically he was right. For influencing the dynamic of events and turning viewers in 150 countries into instant witnesses of history, Robert Edward Turner III is TIME's Man of the Year...
...founder of the first global TV news network, Ted Turner has turned viewers in 150 countries into instant witnesses of history and helped affect the way events unfold. In a year as momentous as 1991, CNN was there -- and the whole world watched...