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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Crosskates. Unlike inline skates, which are mounted directly above four hard, rubbery wheels, each Crosskate ($700 a pair) is attached to a hollow, 2-ft.-long aluminum bar, with a rugged, air-filled tire on each end. The metal frame gives the skates extra stability, and the front wheels pivot to the side to make turning easier. You use ski poles to help push yourself along. "I wanted people to experience the sensation of skiing without having to drive three hours to get to the snow," says inventor Jamie Page, 30, a mechanical engineer and outdoor enthusiast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Needs Snow? | 3/4/2002 | See Source »

Every war has its fateful pivot, when the high-altitude bombs lose their persuasive power and politics becomes a sideshow, when soldiers must hit the ground and fight and everyone else braces for something terrible. This war turned last Thursday night. Throughout the day, combat helicopters had carried U.S. special-operations troops ashore from the U.S.S. Kitty Hawk, anchored in the Arabian Sea off the southern coast of Pakistan. The forces choppered over miles of desert terrain to an airstrip at Dalbandin, close to Pakistan's secret underground nuclear-test site and just south of the Afghan border. There they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Into The Fray | 10/29/2001 | See Source »

Every war has its fateful pivot, when the high-altitude bombs lose their persuasive power and politics becomes a sideshow, when soldiers must hit the ground and fight and everyone else braces for something terrible. This war turned last Thursday night. Throughout the day, combat helicopters had carried U.S. special-operations troops ashore from the U.S.S. Kitty Hawk, anchored in the Arabian Sea off the southern coast of Pakistan. The forces choppered over miles of desert terrain to an airstrip at Dalbandin, close to Pakistan's secret underground nuclear-test site and just south of the Afghan border. There they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ground War: Into The Fray | 10/20/2001 | See Source »

Trouble is, it's all about politics too. Last week, just hours before Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi met at Camp David with George W. Bush, Okinawa saw the type of ugly incident that happens there with depressing regularity--becoming, once again, a tawdry pivot in the complex relationship between the U.S. and Japan. A woman in her 20s told police that a foreigner raped her early Friday morning in the parking lot of a shopping mall in Chatan, not far from the Kadena base. Details of the alleged crime are sketchy, but for several hours police questioned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Incident in Okinawa | 7/9/2001 | See Source »

...sound of a Ping-Pong ball suddenly shatters the quiet. I see nothing but can sense the ball moving left, then right, then back again (and again and again). My ears are performing the equivalent of the left-and-right neck pivot required to watch tennis. Finally the ball drops to the ground and rolls. Still in total darkness, I can sense which direction it's moving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High Fidelity | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

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