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...with "what's me and what isn't." Take competing, for example. Though she took it up only when she came to Gerringong, she's now devoted to surfing. And she's good at it. Other beachgoers say she's probably the best female surfer in town; certainly the keenest. But when friends urge her to enter competitions, she just shakes her head. "Competition isn't me," she says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Water World Of Her Own | 8/7/2006 | See Source »

...Simon's Town. There he met Golden Mgedeza and Solomon Dipeere, both teenage naval cadets from Kwa Thema township outside Johannesburg. Ainslie nurtured their passion for sailing, and offered free lessons to other poor black and mixed-race kids in the surrounding townships. Burricks was one of the keenest. "We had to chase him away to get him to do some schoolwork during exams," Ainslie recalls. For Burricks, sailing provided an escape from the violence of township life. "You grow up thinking that's your way of living," he says. "But if you give kids something else to do, like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Kind Of Race | 4/30/2006 | See Source »

...Washington, where Kings, Prime Ministers and Presidents are routinely received with equanimity bordering on boredom, Teng's [sic] arrival provoked the keenest excitement. Not since Nikita Khrushchev flew in from Moscow to take a crack at détente 20 years ago has a state visit aroused so much exhilaration ... Teng's determination to modernize China's backward industry by the year 2000 led him to request tours of the advanced technology production lines for which U.S. industry is celebrated. During a 24-hr. swing through Georgia, he will visit the Ford Motor Co.'s assembly plant near Atlanta. His tour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 27 Years Ago in TIME | 4/9/2006 | See Source »

...sellers, and the book will ultimately appear in more than 30 languages. Someday, centuries hence, this phenomenon may seem easily explicable. Of course: How could such a book fail? After all, it is about a physically repulsive 18th century Frenchman with no discernible personality, no body odor and the keenest sense of smell the world has ever seen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Nose Knows: PERFUME | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...Hand stencils have been found in only three other caves in Tasmania's spectacularly rugged southwest, all reachable by only the keenest of bushwalkers. Dating of those discovered in 1986 in Ballawinne cave, in the Maxwell Valley, provided the first proof that rock art in Australia had survived from the last Ice Age, which ended roughly 10,000 years ago. Tasmania was then joined to the Australian mainland by a land bridge, and though the island's stencils may not be as old as Arnhem Land's tableaux of long-limbed spirits, or as elaborate as the red spectral figures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Tunnel | 7/29/2004 | See Source »

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