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...years older than I was. I passed John. John was very, very competitive, and even though he was older he really put on the pace to try and pass me again. Well, there was simply no way I would permit anybody to pass me, and I put on the speed and left John behind. I always remember looking behind at John, who was absolutely desperate to try and defeat me on this hill, and I really couldn't understand it. Here was the leader of the expedition, the big wheel, why should he be so desperately keen to beat someone...
...right-hand versions when Tata Motors starts exporting the car to Southeast Asia and Africa in a couple of years. The top third of the over-sized headlights act as the turn signals (indicators) and look like cheeky yellow eyebrows above the main lights. It has a top speed of about 60 miles per hour. "Car companies are in probably the most emotive business area that one can find apart from fashion," company chairman Ratan Tata told TIME a day before the big launch. "There will be people who say it looks like a toy, but if you consider...
...websites where they are in turn downloaded to the phones of millions of readers. The most popular are printed as books and sell in the hundreds of thousands. Okiyama's first keitai shosetsu or "cell-phone novel," K, was written on her 3G Sharp handset and finished with a speed that would have left Barbara Cartland eating her literary dust. In book form, it is 235 pages long. "I think I was writing 20 pages in two hours per day at the most, and it took me almost a month," she says. "I wrote while my baby slept...
...that we have limited cognitive resources to multitask," says Arthur Kramer, director of the Biomedical Imaging Center at the University of Illinois. When demand for our "neural resources" exceeds supply, the result is decreased performance - scanning less attentively for pedestrians, for example, or failing to maintain a lane or speed...
...that the change wasn’t just for a night in 2007. Last year, the Crimson used a come-from-behind victory over the Big Green to begin a run to 13 league victories and the Ivy championship, with a loss at Yale as its only speed bump. On its title run, Harvard used a deadly combination of youth and experience—a trio of stellar sophomores with junior Lindsay Hallion running the point and senior Christiana Lackner dominating the boards—to power a high-scoring offense. While youth was often a blessing, it was sometimes...