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...which endurance runners rely. Slow-twitch muscle can contract for long periods of time with less fatigue, which helps some distance athletes run up to 60 mi. per day. Sprinters legs are genetically blessed with 70% fast-twitch and 30% slow-twitch muscles, which is what allows them to push off so fast and so powerfully, according to Scott Trappe, who heads the human performance laboratory at Indiana's Ball State University and has studied sprinters' muscles. But elite sprinters like Bolt may have even more of something that other world-class sprinters don't: superfast-twich muscles, which perform...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Fast Can Humans Go? | 8/22/2008 | See Source »

...Committee on Conventional Prompt Global Strike Capability believes that there are threats (like nuclear terrorism) that the Pentagon's fleets of attack planes and missiles cannot handle and which have to be stopped with the immediacy of the push of a button by a future U.S. President. It's not quite a "death ray" but it's the closest existing technology can get to that fantasy weapon. Still, skeptics roll their eyes and say that the report's authors are like a bunch of junior high school boys who have seen all the James Bond movies and believe that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will the US Develop a Death Ray? | 8/21/2008 | See Source »

...with a tape recorder that the female table tennis players should not be afraid to shake things up a bit in the wardrobe department. The baggy shirts - the same as the ones the men wear - don't do much to set the female players apart. "We are trying to push the players to use skirts and also nicer shirts...with more curves," he told the China Daily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sticky Business of Table Tennis | 8/21/2008 | See Source »

...Until this year, the Bush Administration had appeared to take for granted al-Maliki's acquiescence when push came to shove. The Iraqi Prime Minister had, for example, publicly opposed the surge of some 30,000 additional U.S. troops deployed in Iraq last year, but when they came anyway, al-Maliki's government muffled its dissent. That left many in the region and beyond questioning the extent of sovereign control exercised by the Iraqi government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Tougher al-Maliki Flexes His Muscle | 8/21/2008 | See Source »

...lives in the U.S., and benefits from the best of both the precision of the Chinese and the power of the American gymnastic styles. "At this high level, It doesn't matter which country or which culture you are in," said Chow. "You have to train real hard to push the limit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: US Gymnasts Finish Off in Style | 8/20/2008 | See Source »

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