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...still stay so secluded, and what did you do to get them to trust you? They stay secluded by remaining down in the depths of this vast network of canyons. One reason they haven't blazed across the competitive circuit is because our kind of running is really stupid and foreign to them. We bust out as fast as we can from gun to tape, and the Tarahumara don't do that. Humans are built for endurance, not speed. We're awful sprinters, compared to every other animal. We try to run our races as if they were speed races...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Myth of the Lonely Long-Distance Runner | 6/1/2009 | See Source »

...views himself as infallible. Even during the communist era, an informer spying on Klaus as he took part in informal economics discussions described him as an abrasive know-it-all. "He makes it clear that who does not go along with his ideas and opinions is simply stupid and incompetent," reads Klaus' secret police file. In team sports, former Czechoslovak premier Strasky recalls, Klaus used to be "insufferable," displaying behavior he would later bring to politics: "He always knew that another player had blundered. He never forgave mistakes and his opinion had to be the final...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vaclav Klaus: The Man with the E.U.'s Fate in His Hands | 5/21/2009 | See Source »

...that anything could keep Eminem, 36, from trying to win it back. Half of Relapse - the aggressively dull and stupid half - is devoted to re-establishing Eminem as a man so unhinged, he's capable of anything or at least fantasizing about anything. By the middle of the first song, "3 a.m.," Eminem, or one of his multiple alter egos, has masturbated to Hannah Montana and left a pile of bodies behind the counter of a McDonald...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eminem's Relapse: Back to His Old Tricks | 5/19/2009 | See Source »

...Unless the Devils collapse. Then I'm off this stupid game ... till next season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Friend of the Hockey Court | 5/14/2009 | See Source »

...very important for businessmen. For the shipping industry, they [previously] had to move goods to China by stopping over in a tiny town in Okinawa and paying $5,000 to $10,000 to get a chop to say they've been though a third place. We've done this stupid thing for more than 20 years, and that little town has got a windfall, but now it's changed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taiwan's Ma Reflects on His First Year As President | 5/14/2009 | See Source »

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