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...youngsters weaving around each other, diving and springing out like seals, practicing their strokes. It could be any public pool on a warm summer's evening, until you notice first that nobody is bumping into anyone else; and second, that everything is happening at a little over twice normal speed. The giant screens at each end of the pool announce the warm-up session will end in 15 minutes, and it dawns on the ignorant spectator that this is how Olympic swimmers loosen up before a race: not with a couple of lazy stretches, but with a few hundred meters...
RECENT COVERAGE Built For Speed Michael Phelps wants his gold rush to last
...RECENT COVERAGE Built For Speed Michael Phelps wants his gold rush to last
...RECENT COVERAGE Built For Speed Michael Phelps wants his gold rush to last
...wrongdoing. Instead of slinking into well-heeled obscurity, he plotted his return, this time determined to shake up a new industry. Citron, 33, is now CEO of Vonage, which has become, in 18 months, the leading player in the explosive new market for home-phone service via high-speed Web connections, known to geeks as VOIP (voice over Internet protocol). He isn't shy about his ambition: "to change the entire telecommunications landscape...