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The key, says Valiante, is Woods' constant quest to be better. As TIME wrote in a 2000 cover story about Woods: "What is most remarkable about Woods is his restless drive for what the Japanese call kaizen, or continuous improvement. Toyota engineers will push a perfectly good assembly line until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tiger at the Masters: An Ultimate Test of Toughness | 4/5/2010 | See Source »

To put those numbers into perspective, vegassports-odds.com puts the odds of the Chicago Cubs winning the World Series at nine to one, meaning that a championship for the Cubs is predicted to be more likely than admission to any of these schools.

Author: By E. Benjamin Samuels, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Playing the Odds | 4/4/2010 | See Source »

The funding crisis in European higher education is unlikely to improve anytime soon. "There's quite a lot of anxiety in the system," Flather says, cautioning that short-term cuts will have long-lasting effects on universities. Undermining these "engines of democracy," he adds, could end up being more costly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe's Education Crisis: College Costs Soar | 4/4/2010 | See Source »

Souza, who sought the agrarian reform that would give small plots to the area's poor, was shot three or four times as he bicycled with his wife and her friend on Tuesday evening, said Loyana Nogueira da Silva, the police officer who was on duty when the case was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brazil's Land-Reform Murders: Dark Side of an Economic Miracle | 4/4/2010 | See Source »

Another issue is the agricultural frontier that is constantly encroaching on the Amazon. Brazil is an agricultural powerhouse and the world's biggest exporter or producer of sugar, soy beans, coffee, orange juice, beef and chicken. Thirst for land, produce, and the jobs, development and hard currency they brings are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brazil's Land-Reform Murders: Dark Side of an Economic Miracle | 4/4/2010 | See Source »

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