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...more than three days, not to mention the possibility of sleep running and hallucinating. "My curiosity is how far this human system can go," says Karnazes. "What is it really capable of?" His endurance is legendary in the ultramarathon community, a 12,000- to 15,000-strong collection of rabid overachievers. On the road to 300 Karnazes pursues a vampire-like training schedule, rising at 2 a.m. for 50-mile runs and then putting in a full day at his natural-food business. The night runs also allow him to keep some semblance of daily family life with his wife...
...such a sytstem might work is a complicated question, and the details will take a long time to hash out even if the necessity is ever agreed upon in the first place. In the meantime, the answer is clearly not to shy away from Wikipedia like some rabid dog needing to be put down: The momentum gathered over the past few years is too valuable a thing to let slip. Instead, we ought to follow the mantra: “know thy sources.” Healthy skepticism is by definition healthy, and independent confirmation is a valuable commodity...
...office in Asia, then in Europe after French auteur Luc Besson (La Femme Nikita, The Fifth Element) bought the rights to the film, trimmed a few minutes and slapped on a new music track. Even before its February opening in 20 U.S. cities, the movie has sparked a rabid cult, thanks to festival showings, bootleg DVD imports and Internet downloading...
...financial health, it is being investigated by the Internal Revenue Service. The IRS is reviewing the group's tax-exempt status on the grounds that it engaged in partisan politics, a no-no for nonprofits. N.A.A.C.P. chairman Julian Bond, who has accused the Bush Administration of drawing its "most rabid supporters from the Taliban wing of American politics," calls the probe an attempt to silence the group. "We're not going to allow any institution to prohibit us from fighting racism," he says...
...York City One irony of the technological age is how a plethora of choices has served to separate and isolate us. We have become electronic and ideological shut-ins. Nowhere is this willful know-nothingism more apparent than in the current political quagmire, in which candidates and their rabid supporters ferociously cleave to their ideological realities. It's not only on Election Day that most of us will decide we don't care what our neighbors think. As the U.S.'s pre-emptive war in Iraq has taught us to ask, What neighbors? The hell with them. Edward C. Pease...