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...goal: a 10-min. mile (fear not, olympians). Wearing a pair of Nike Plus running shoes, I wind along a tree-covered Oregon trail, glancing at my iPod nano every few strides. I wish that little chip in my Nikes would malfunction. It's telling the nano my pace, and the nano in turn is taunting me: a 10-min. 30-sec. clip, with about another half a mile to go. I sprint--and almost die--near the finish. One mile completed, the nano screen reads. My time: 9 min. 42 sec. Yes! Cue the Chariots of Fire music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cool Runnings | 10/4/2007 | See Source »

Harvard, which recorded nine shots in the first half, controlled the pace, but seemed a little slow to first-year coach Ray Leone...

Author: By Jake I. Fisher, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Crimson Cashes in After Narrow Misses | 10/2/2007 | See Source »

...private sector, then, it is almost business as usual. That is, apart from the observance of different meal times and the longer evening prayer, which starts at 7:30 p.m. and lasts anywhere from one to two hours depending on which country you are in. Still, the overall pace is still slow. The bottom line: unless it is urgent business, schedule your trip before or after Ramadan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Doing Business During Ramadan | 10/1/2007 | See Source »

Cost of the Burj Dubai. Workers have already completed 145 of 165 floors, working at a pace of one floor every three days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Numbers: Oct. 1, 2007 | 10/1/2007 | See Source »

...disappoint. With the play moving quickly from end to end, the game included 35 total shots between the two teams, 16 of which were on target. With the score tied at 1 at the end of regulation, the two teams went into sudden-death extra time. The fast pace of play left both sets of players tired heading into the additional frames. The match did not go on for too much longer, though, as in the fourth minute of overtime the Bulldogs’ Maggie Westfal took a centering pass from Kate Macauley and fired the ball past sophomore goalkeeper...

Author: By Jay M. Cohen, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Yale Tops Women's Soccer in OT in Ivy Debut | 9/30/2007 | See Source »

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