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Like Beauty, I found myself carried away by the quiet virtues of the Beast: how the Kindle feels encased in creamy leather, the way the gadget helps me power through a book superfast and how it lets me take my library on a plane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Warming to the Kindle | 7/17/2008 | See Source »

...Cullens are actually a local coven of vampires. Edward has been 17 since 1918. He is superstrong and superfast, he can hear people's thoughts, and he does not breathe or sleep or age. His skin is cold, and when exposed to the sun, he doesn't burn--he glitters. Edward and the Cullens aren't ordinary vampires: they have renounced human blood on moral grounds, feeding instead on wild animals, which they hunt by night. He and Bella are instantly, overwhelmingly attracted to each other, but he is also wildly hungry for her blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stephenie Meyer: A New J.K. Rowling? | 4/24/2008 | See Source »

...only "about 90%" vegetarian; he's also a man transformed. He now rises early every morning to study Vedanta. "I've not missed a single day," he says in amazement. At the end of each evening, he spends 10 or 15 minutes reflecting on his day--"like doing a superfast advance through a dvd," he explains. "To be diligent and focused like this, I can't even tell you how unusual it is for me. My nickname when I was growing up was Fast-and-Sloppy." Reading and rereading Swamiji's writing is like practicing a musical instrument, Moon says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Swami, How They Love Ya | 10/18/2007 | See Source »

...crazy as it seems, we like to relax at places that serve jolting caffeine and superfast food...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Just Sit Back and Relax! | 6/18/2006 | See Source »

Communications are expected to be a huge headache yet again. During Katrina, New Orleans overnight lost $500 million worth of telecom structure--fiber-optic and copper wire--leaving the city's emergency-operations center at city hall with a superfast T1 line as useless as a set of tin cans. Deputy mayor Meffert ended up handing out Nextel walkie-talkies for all the out-of-town help and cobbling together a voice-over-Internet communications system out of old computers, which still serves the city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: You're On Your Own | 5/21/2006 | See Source »

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