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...Hence his idea for a spray-on condom. The prototype, which began testing last year, consists of a hard plastic tube with nozzles that spray liquid latex from all directions, much like the water jets in the tunnel of a car wash. According to Krause, there are numerous advantages to his spray-on condom. "The condom fits 100% perfectly, so the safety is much higher than a standard condom's, and it feels more natural...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spray-On Condoms: Still a Hard Sell | 8/13/2008 | See Source »

...plate of bhelpuri, do you think you'd even notice an increase?" The cost of the dish here is four times what you'd pay out on the street. For these workers, who cannot afford to buy a thing in this mall, not even a bottle of water, everything seems surreally expensive; the surreal getting inflated by 12% isn't an event...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Burden of Inflation | 8/13/2008 | See Source »

...Well, the secret might be out. Phelps collected his third win in the Water Cube in the 200m freestyle on Aug. 12 - and his third world record. "Being in lane six, I was out of the middle of the pool. I knew that if I jumped first, the guys in the middle of the pool wouldn't be able to see me, and by the time they did, hopefully I had enough ground where I could hold them off," he said of his record-breaking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Even Higher Bar for Phelps? | 8/12/2008 | See Source »

...course, Phelps won't admit to it. But if you're as gifted as he is in the water, and you shrug off world records as easily as a coat, no mere clocks will keep you feeling challenged - you need something to motivate you. Setting eight new marks in a single meet might do it - Phelps has already broken five world records in a meet at last year's World championships. What's three more? Next up are the 200m butterfly, in which he owns eight of the top 10 performances ever, and the 4x200m freestyle relay, in which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Even Higher Bar for Phelps? | 8/12/2008 | See Source »

...athletic schools like these, they rarely see their parents and the extensive training often takes precedence over academics. Divers have to be recruited particularly early - sometimes as young as age six - before they develop a fear of heights and so that their bodies can be molded into the ultimate water-piercing missiles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Another Golden Day for China's Divers | 8/11/2008 | See Source »

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