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...1930s and '40s, Babe (Call Me Babe) Zaharias could traipse nonchalantly from being the greatest female track star to being the best female golfer. As recently as the late '50s, Althea Gibson, who won Wimbledon and the U.S. Open twice each with a racquet, also enjoyed a swell career with a driver. Today sprinter Marion Jones, who starred in college hoops at North Carolina, would love to moonlight in the WNBA but knows she can't. If she shifts focus for a nano, she's lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For Women, A Golden Age | 9/3/2001 | See Source »

...Komsomolets rescue capsule from 1650 meters, using a steel cable. As the cable was shortening, it lost its resiliency and broke. They lost the capsule. Now, (Rubin's head, Academician Igor) Spasski shows his magic tricks with cables and ship models in a test pool to prove how swell his Kursk project is. It is as ridiculous to watch as it is painful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'Kursk Salvage is an Adventurist Scam' | 8/27/2001 | See Source »

...delivery. The triad also hired a crew of bajing loncat and arranged fake papers for the ship under a new name. On the agreed night, two speedboats raced west out of Babi. After an hour or two, they cut the engines and waited, bobbing in the swell of passing carriers. In the first boat, the boarders assembled their satang, lashing together lengths of bamboo; the remaining twine they used for sword belts and handcuffs. In the early hours, the Thai tanker appeared as a collection of bright lights on the horizon. The two teams waited for it to pass, slipping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Buccaneer Tales in the Pirates' Lair | 8/20/2001 | See Source »

...have to buy special SACDs (which will play at lower quality on standard CD players) to take advantage of this. SACDs cost around $20, and selection is limited. My wife and I ended up viewing a special edition of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, which was especially swell in our cocoon of sound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Now That's Home Entertainment | 8/13/2001 | See Source »

...chat room, it's because his cell phone has just beeped. In this modern maelstrom, yoga's tendency to stasis and silence seems at first insane, then inspired. The notion of bodies at rest becoming souls at peace is reactionary, radical and liberating. If it cures nagging backache, swell. But isn't it bliss just to sit this one out, to freeze-frame the frenzy, to say no to all that and om to what may be beyond it, or within ourselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Power of Yoga | 7/9/2001 | See Source »

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