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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Groomed for greatness from infancy, Woods is the rare phenom to fulfill his promise. He's a multiethnic star with a megawatt smile and what was a clean-living image - qualities he harnessed to become the consummate corporate pitchman, the world's richest athlete for eight years running and the target of unending idolatry. When athletes meet the stratospheric expectations heaped upon them, we have fewer incentives to unwrap their shiny packaging. Now that Tiger's brand has been dented, fans who bought Nikes or quaffed Gatorade at his urging may be channeling their disillusionment into moral outrage. They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Let Down by a Tiger We Never Knew | 12/7/2009 | See Source »

According to The Harvard Law Record, Cruise "surreptitiously" entered the classroom and "flashed his megawatt smile" at titillated students, announcing that "he was there to see Bert speak; after all, he'd never had a chance to hear him lecture before." What a considerate client! More after the jump...

Author: By Esther I. Yi | Title: Cruise Becomes a Law Student But Not Really. No, Not At All, Actually. | 10/7/2009 | See Source »

According to The Harvard Law Record, Cruise "surreptitiously" entered the classroom and "flashed his megawatt smile" at titillated students, announcing that "he was there to see Bert speak; after all, he'd never had a chance to hear him lecture before." What a considerate client! More after the jump...

Author: By Esther I. Yi | Title: Cruise Becomes a Law Student But Not Really. No, Not At All, Actually. | 10/6/2009 | See Source »

...make the case for twisty lightbulbs, white roofs, geothermal heat pumps, electric cars, advanced research and carbon-pricing. He sounds like Al Gore but with unimpeachable scientific credentials, a nonpartisan aura and a rumpled charm. At 61, he still radiates boyish impatience as well as boyish enthusiasm, with a megawatt smile that appears without warning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Steven Chu Win the Fight Over Global Warming? | 8/23/2009 | See Source »

...company discarded the old extractive-industry model and formed a power-generation arm to build biomass power stations for Liberia, starting with a 35-megawatt station for Monrovia due to be switched on in 2010. (The capital's million or so residents currently make do with just two megawatts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rebuilding Liberia | 7/13/2009 | See Source »

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