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...only because he had to let his team's leader take the championship--in cycling everyone else works for the top dog. In 1997 Ullrich was the boss rider, and he won by more than 9 min. Ullrich's legs are so powerful that while Armstrong often does 100 pedal r.p.m.s up mountains in a low gear, Ullrich rides alongside at 75 r.p.m.s at a higher one. Ullrich came to this tour in the best shape of his life. His team, Deutsche Telekom, seemed to be executing its strategy flawlessly. Until July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Three Lance in France | 8/6/2001 | See Source »

...film, a 1951 public-service short called Once Too Often. He looks a pleasant fellow, someone to prize as a neighbor in the sunny suburbia of the postwar era. His behavior is that of any blithe burgher: a carefree puff of his cigarette, a heavy foot on the gas pedal, an appreciative glance at a lovely lady as his car draws alongside hers. Then the scene cuts to black and...CRASH!, a sickening fusion of metal and flesh. What begins as comedy, and accelerates toward romance, explodes into heedless tragedy, into death or worse: the souring of the American Dream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clown Prince: JACK LEMMON (1925-2001) | 7/9/2001 | See Source »

...like the American Medical Association broke into applause. But he quieted them. This President was good at snatching back victory, he knew. The grassroots activists had to keep the phones ringing in Senate offices. "We can't let up," Kennedy told the lobbyists. "We've got to keep the pedal to the metal every hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Best For The Patient? | 7/2/2001 | See Source »

...actually takes place; in other words, the body lags slightly behind the brain's intention to act. In effect, the brain warms up for an impending movement by directing specific clusters of neurons to fire, just as you might warm up your car's engine by pumping the gas pedal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brain Power | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

...PEDAL POWER Worried your kids are turning into vididiots and couch potatoes? Looking for fun ways to exercise? Simply hook up any PlayStation to a CycleFX, available in July at cyclefx.com The $300-to-$500 exercise bike works as a controller for about 45 racing games for PlayStation and three for PlayStation2. The faster you pedal, the farther your car or speedboat travels. Who needs PowerBars when your pride is at stake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New From E3 | 5/28/2001 | See Source »

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