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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...People are often surprised by the amount of physical training racers do. What's your regimen? There's a very extensive training program. [NASCAR races] are four to five hours in length. The g-forces take a lot out of you. I lift weights four times a week, usually run five days a week. There's ab work, core-based work. You need your lungs for endurance. And the more you muscle mass you have on you during an impact is real important...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jimmie Johnson: Breaking NASCAR Records | 11/30/2009 | See Source »

...hounded by tricky policy conundrums. After Chinese banks engaged in massive lending aimed at combating the global downturn, China's regulators warned in late November that they must meet mandated capital requirements or risk sanctions, a strong sign that Beijing is worrying over the possible fallout from its stimulus program. China also faces a tough choice on its currency regime. The government is under increased pressure from the U.S. and European Union to allow the yuan to appreciate, though policymakers remain nervous about the negative effect that could have on its struggling export sector. China "is like watching a duck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Lesson of Dubai: The Crisis Is Not Over | 11/30/2009 | See Source »

...presenter who was tapped for the E.U. election, "Silvio's" suggestion that she go into politics was a welcome attempt to close the age and gender gap in government. She'd met the Prime Minister back in 2005, when she was 28, and was interviewing him for a Mediaset program. Alloro missed her plane; he offered her a ride on his jet. As they flew, she recalls, he quizzed her on his policies, on that morning's newspapers. By the end of the afternoon - some of which was spent strolling in the natural museum section of his Sardinian villa, looking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Silvio Berlusconi Uses Women on TV | 11/30/2009 | See Source »

...school - and prodding state officials to discover how little access those kids have to safe crosswalks and sidewalks in many Florida cities. (Miami drivers are also notorious for carelessly parking their cars on sidewalks near schools, forcing children into the streets.) The state's Safe Routes to School program has been a particular success in that regard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Florida's Deadly Hit-and-Run Car Culture | 11/29/2009 | See Source »

Janovec, who looks more like a ZZ Top guitarist than an expert on the nutmeg tree, is constantly darting about as he coordinates the Andes to Amazon Biodiversity Project that has documented new species of bugs, birds and plants. He has a revolving door program that continuously brings in other specialists. In early November he was sharing Quince Mil with Russ Van Horn, a leading expert in bears from the San Diego Zoo, and Eric Christenson, a renowned botanist from Florida specializing in orchids. Their days begin at 4 a.m. and extend late into the night. Christenson has already identified...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How a Little Town in Peru Is Becoming a Hotspot | 11/26/2009 | See Source »

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