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...sport, but I don't want to share the world record." JUSTIN GATLIN, U.S. track star and world's fastest man for five days until he learned that because of a timing error, he had actually tied, not broken, Jamaican rival Asafa Powell's 100-m record of 9.77 sec...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim: May 29, 2006 | 5/21/2006 | See Source »

ITUNES NEW MUSIC TUESDAY 15-sec. clips of fresh tracks from an eclectic array of bands (such as Pearl Jam, the Dixie Chicks, Death Cab for Cutie) fill these 10-to-15-min. podcasts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: The Pick Of The Podcasts | 5/2/2006 | See Source »

...time increases, perhaps the certainty that you know that you dropped it and it’s your food decreases. Eating floor food of unknown origin sounds at least unpleasant and probably unhealthy to me. [But n]o, I think food picks up as many germs/debris in 0.1 sec as it does in 5 sec or 50 sec or 500 sec.” “Unless you are in a place where serious pathogens are likely, eating dropped food sounds okay to me—although it may not impress your date. But then dropping food...

Author: By Lauren B. Gibilisco, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Hey, Professor... | 4/19/2006 | See Source »

...night in question he had been hired to perform at a Korean-American talent show in Los Angeles. There's a grainy amateur video of the event in which you can see him mumble his name into the microphone and then do his thing for about 60 sec...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How To Get Famous in 30 Seconds | 4/16/2006 | See Source »

...look like amateur footage, showing soccer deity Ronaldinho putting on a pair of sneakers and then, incredibly, nailing the crossbar with a soccer ball four times in a row. Some of the successes are accidental. For a while, one of the popular movies on Google Video was a 20-sec. clip of a kid falling off a jungle gym. Others are inexplicable: a 24-year-old Midwesterner known as Nornna has so far posted 755 movie clips to YouTube in which she laconically narrates the details of her daily life. The videos are almost excruciatingly prosaic, but they have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How To Get Famous in 30 Seconds | 4/16/2006 | See Source »

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