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...seller mixes established fact with Menzies' own much-disputed interpretations of history. It was a Chinese edition of 1421 and subsequent e-mails with Menzies that Liu says convinced him of his map's significance. Menzies, who has helped publicize Liu's find, tells TIME: "There isn't one millionth of a 1% chance the map is a fake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: History's Mysteries | 1/23/2006 | See Source »

...system. Certainly a meter (which is defined as the distance that light travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second) is far less arbitrary of a unit than a yard. (Then again, to be fair, the meter was originally defined as “one ten-millionth of the length of the earth’s meridian along a quadrant...

Author: By Charles R. Drummond iv | Title: Celsius 488 | 10/26/2005 | See Source »

...popular, gets great mileage and goes from 0 to 60 in 341 pages. Published last October, lacocca was parked at No. 1 on the best-seller list for 36 weeks. Last week the 2 millionth copy came off the press, a feat bettered by only a few books, including Gone With the Wind and Jonathan Livingston Seagull. The author, who has not promoted the book and assigned most of its profits to charity, is still "awestruck" by the success. "I'm told America loves listening to me, but I love listening to America," says lacocca, who receives about 500 letters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 29, 1985 | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

...only thing this compares to is when Tiger Woods used to lead the World Golf Rankings by the same distance that stood between the second-ranked player and the 200 millionth player in the world. But that was before Woods left Butch Harmon, put on some weight and married that Swedish model and former nanny. (On this note, I have a plan. We must prohibit all Swedish models from visiting or attending Harvard. Well, actually, having a quick look around campus, a ban like that might already be in place...

Author: By Michael R. James, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dawson's Push For the Payton | 10/26/2004 | See Source »

...Commercial online-music sites have hit it big in the U.S. and Europe, thanks to the success of iTunes, which recently sold its 100 millionth song. Even Microsoft is shouldering its way into the business. Last week, the software giant launched its U.S. online-music store, MSN Music. But to the frustration of millions of willing Asians with MP3 players and broadband connections, buying the latest hits online is difficult, because the big U.S. music sites are ignoring the region and local alternatives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where's the Music? | 9/6/2004 | See Source »

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