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...brisk synopsis, you can tell that Death Race 2000 is far richer than the remake. Both have an attitude; the first one has a vision. George Miller testified that the Bartel film inspired his Mad Max movies: the post-apocalyptic landscape, the valuing of speed over life, the fender-level shots of cars careering toward Armageddon. It also spawned a rip-off video game, called Death Race, supposedly the first of its kind to be banned. Death Race 2000 didn,t slam into any legal walls, but it has a lunatic daring that was a hallmark of 70s movies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death Race: Worth a Test Drive | 8/24/2008 | See Source »

...feel that I’ve taken this engineering and applied sciences to a high level in the last 10 years, and it has to be taken to the next level,” Venky told The Crimson this February after announcing that he would leave the deanship to return to the faculty. “That’s a minimum five- to 10-year project. I thought it would be better if a new person comes...

Author: By Alissa M D'gama and June Q. Wu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Veteran Spaepen To Serve as Interim Dean of Harvard Engineering School | 8/23/2008 | See Source »

...many possible methods to determine age, but they are not very accurate. The error is about two years." Most of these are also based on forensic approaches and have not used to screen for age in living people. In some cases, current imaging techniques simply cannot provide the level of detailed information required to make the methods practical for situations such as the one facing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Science Tell a Gymnast's Age? | 8/23/2008 | See Source »

...ends of chromosomes, has proven too unreliable. Just a few years ago, genetic experts had thought that aging cells had shorter telomeres, but it turns out that these bits of DNA can get snipped off even in relatively young cells. "We all age at different rates at the molecular level," says Sinclair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Science Tell a Gymnast's Age? | 8/23/2008 | See Source »

...could run a 4-min. mile - until Roger Bannister proved us wrong in 1954 when he ran it in 3 mins. 59.4 secs. At the 1936 Games in Berlin, sprinter Jesse Owens won the 100m gold with a blistering time of 10.3 secs - today, that's par for junior level speed athletes. We now have better equipment, better training and improved nutrition, along with faster tracks and, crucially, a lot more endorsement money to be made by running as fast as possible, and that's uncovered a deeper pool of better runners than ever before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Fast Can Humans Go? | 8/22/2008 | See Source »

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