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...elasticity, combined with the longest stroke in swimming, makes "Thorpedo" everything his nickname suggests: sleek, smooth, strangely beautiful and, to the competition, lethal. "If you were going to do a Frankenstein," says Brian Sutton, coach of nine Australian Olympians, "if you were going to put a swimmer together from scratch, you'd build Ian Thorpe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Summer Olympics: Ian Thorpe | 9/11/2000 | See Source »

...elasticity, combined with the longest stroke in swimming, makes "Thorpedo" everything his nickname suggests: sleek, smooth, strangely beautiful and, to the competition, lethal. "If you were going to do a Frankenstein," says Brian Sutton, coach of nine Australian Olympians, "if you were going to put a swimmer together from scratch, you'd build Ian Thorpe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Profile: Ian Thorpe | 9/6/2000 | See Source »

...scary as to lose the stuffed-animal concession. Crystal and Goodman have the star power, but director Peter Docter says the real find is Mary Gibbs, 3, who happens to be the daughter of a Pixar employee and plays the lead human. "We initially brought her in just for scratch track, but she's so appealing that we kept bringing her in, giving her lots of candy and using whatever sounds she made." Is "candy" the new geek-slang for stock options...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 28, 2000 | 8/28/2000 | See Source »

...divides his time between the University of California, Berkeley, and the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, wants to put the pieces back together again. His goal is to create a computer model of how the cell works so that someday he'll be able to design his own cells from scratch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Biology: Hacking the Cell's Circuitry | 8/7/2000 | See Source »

...Most Convincing Impression of a Beltway Outsider (WP) "When I look back at Washington, I scratch my head and ask what the hell are they doing back there." -Dick Cheney, on life in the private sector...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Politics Junkie | 7/31/2000 | See Source »

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