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In 1930, Percy Williams, a Canadian, became the first non-American to take the title. Six years later, Owens took the record back with a 10.2-second time - part of the epic performance in Berlin in which the sprinter notched four gold medals and punctured Hitler's vision of Aryan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World's Fastest Human | 8/18/2009 | See Source »

The research, conducted by Jeffrey Timberlake of the University of Cincinnati and Rhys Williams of Loyola University Chicago, was presented this week at the annual convention of the American Sociological Association, in San Francisco. In order to take America's temperature on the often overheated topic of immigrants, the researchers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stereotypes Persist Even Where Immigrants Don't | 8/12/2009 | See Source »

The BNP has also learned to turn attacks against it to its advantage. Britain's Equality and Human Rights Commission is currently investigating complaints that the BNP is breaching the law because it admits only "indigenous Caucasians" as members and employees. Griffin defines that group as "of English, Irish, Scottish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The March to the Far Right | 8/10/2009 | See Source »

Though it still remains somewhat of a taboo to discuss, the skin-color barrier has historically been just as daunting for people of color as the racial barrier. A 2004 study showing that light-skinned immigrants in the U.S. earn more money on average than darker-skinned immigrants confirmed what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Appreciation: Naomi Sims, the First Black Supermodel | 8/5/2009 | See Source »

• One of five boys born to Thornton Boyd, a U.S. Marine, and his wife, Patricia. The pair divorced in 1977. His mother later re-married a Washington lawyer and American Muslim named William Saddler. Though Boyd was raised in the Episcopalian faith, he converted to Islam shortly after graduating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Daniel Boyd: A Homegrown Terrorist? | 7/30/2009 | See Source »

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