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...perennial powerhouse in the latter - it has had far less success in soccer. The New Zealand team traveling to South Africa may feel uncomfortable not just because they're known as the "All Whites." In a tournament filled with millionaire, jet-setting athletes, the bulk of the Kiwi squad is made up of journeymen who toil in obscurity in lower-tier leagues in Europe and others who until recently were playing semi-professionally at home. A tied match, let alone one victory in South Africa, would be cause for celebration. (Read: "Rugby Hits the Big Time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Five Reasons to Look Forward to the 2010 World Cup | 11/19/2009 | See Source »

...been together since she was 19 or 20," he says. Perminova is a model and an economics student at Moscow State University. Throughout our two-hour breakfast, she alternately serves as waitress - doling out espressos, porridge, and pastries stuffed with black caviar - and as significant other, sampling the kiwi fruit and playing on her laptop. (See pictures of Russia celebrating Victory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alexander Lebedev: Rich Advice | 7/27/2009 | See Source »

...reasonably priced food includes curries, pasta, fried chicken and Mongolian hot pot, as well as elaborate shaved-ice desserts with names like "diarrhea with dried droppings" (chocolate), "bloody poop" (strawberry) and "green dysentery" (kiwi). Despite the disturbing descriptions, the desserts were great. But after seeing curry drip down a mini-toilet, I may never have that sauce again. (See pictures of what makes you eat more food...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Edible Excretions: Taiwan's Toilet Restaurant | 3/2/2009 | See Source »

...having a hard time grasping the importance of becoming the world's fastest kiwi peeler(multiple-record holder Alastair Galpin set that mark this week, stripping and eating the fruit in about 16 seconds) you're not alone. "There can be a snobbishness about record breaking," the book's editor-in-chief, Craig Glenday, told Britain's Sky News. "What may seem pointless to you could be a passion for someone else." For some, record-breaking itself has become a consuming passion. Ashrita Furman, a health-food store manager from Queens, N.Y., has broken more than 200 records. He notched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Guinness World Records | 11/14/2008 | See Source »

...Karan show to get an up-close look at Arlenis Sosa, who I was told is the new face of fashion. Sosa, 19, was pretty and awfully nice but mostly just really tall and outrageously skinny. Though she bragged to me about having just finished a salad and a kiwi, she paused when I asked her if that salad had dressing. "I don't like dressing," she said. I gave her a look. "Because I can't be fat," she continued. "I do like it. But I don't want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion Frills | 9/18/2008 | See Source »

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