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...Canadian Donovan Bailey snatched the mantle by speeding to gold in 9.84 seconds, earning himself a spot in a 150-m duel with Michael Johnson, the gold-shoed sensation who set Atlanta ablaze by running the 200-m event in a record-setting 19.32 seconds. But the race, which took place in June 1997 at the Toronto Skydome, was an unmitigated bust; fans derided the event as a corporate showcase that sullied the sport, and Johnson pulled up lame with a quadriceps injury halfway through...
...Fritz Henderson announced this week that the company's much anticipated Chevy Volt (half electric, half fossil fuel) is the undisputed winner in the miles-per-gallon race, claiming that under new EPA guidelines the Volt will hit 230 miles per gallon (city), the first car to ever earn triple-digit fuel efficiency. Not to be outdone, Nissan fired back a few days later to its Twitter base of fans that its just-announced all-electric Nissan Leaf would be rated at 367 m.p.g., also using EPA guidelines. (See the 50 worst cars of all time...
Evicted and imprisoned, deprived of their rights, the aliens could be the Palestinians in Gaza, the detainees in Guantánamo or, transparently, black South Africans for the 46 years of apartheid and, in effect, for centuries before. (The title is a play on District Six, a vibrant mixed-race area of Cape Town that was declared whites-only in 1966, after which 60,000 of its residents were forcibly removed.) In his 2005 rough draft for District 9, the short film Alive in Joburg, Blomkamp didn't foreground the political elements. But while writing the feature script with Terri...
...National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), thrilled to recruit a proven statewide winner who can raise cash without help from Washington, endorsed Crist the day he entered the race. So did outgoing Senator Mel Martinez, who announced last week that he's stepping down early, allowing Crist to select a sympathetic caretaker - he says he won't name himself - to keep the seat warm. Early polls suggest that Crist would easily beat any Democrat - the favorite is Congressman Kendrick Meek - and that he's starting with a 30-point lead over his GOP challenger. Crist also raked in a state-record...
...Rubio insists he won't drop out, and those daunting polls suggest that the relatively few Republicans who know Rubio are quite likely to vote Rubio. Over the next 14 months, as Rubio introduces himself to the state, this race is likely to evolve from David and Goliath into a struggle for the party's soul, with a moderate populist who celebrated the stimulus with Obama at a Fort Myers rally and a conservative stalwart who opposes almost everything Obama has done. (Read "GOP Governors: Split over Obama's Stimulus Plan...