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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...worst economic year for young people since they've been born. A lot of them are out of work, are struggling to get jobs, and quite a large number are quite literally on the street. I'm sure I gulped and then almost definitely said, "Screw it - let's do it." And it's such a feel-good thing for everybody, and I think we'll raise a lot of money for young people who are living on the streets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Virgin Founder Richard Branson | 9/1/2009 | See Source »

...late for Semenya. "She should not let them take away her medal," Soundarajan says, or allow one test to determine her fate. "She is a woman and that's it, full stop," Soundarajan says. "A gender test cannot take away from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gender and Athletics: India's Own Caster Semenya | 9/1/2009 | See Source »

...Bonds, or any other pariahs the ability to hit major-league pitching. All but the most ardent moralists and car-radio screamers would grant that most of the now tarnished stars of baseball’s Juiced Era were skilled ballplayers even without the aid of chemical enhancement. PEDs let great athletes leverage their skills to even higher, previously unimaginable levels. They enabled marginal athletes to make massive sums of money playing a kids game. And they allowed baseball to return to the glory it had lost in the 1994 strike...

Author: By Gabriel J. Daly | Title: Little Papi | 8/31/2009 | See Source »

...Ridge stops short of laying blame at the doorstep of his former colleagues, perhaps out of loyalty or perhaps because he would rather look forward. As he said on Sunday, "There is still unfinished business, so let's finish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ridge: Second Thoughts, but Not Second-Guessing | 8/31/2009 | See Source »

...plane touch down in Lebanon. Once on the ground, they held passengers captive, threatened them with guns and murdered one hostage, dumping his body onto the tarmac. Nonetheless, after the captives were rescued, one of them reportedly later said of his captors, "They weren't bad people; they let me eat, they let me sleep, they gave me my life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stockholm Syndrome | 8/31/2009 | See Source »

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