Fresh from setting the world of athletics alight by running a blistering new world record time of 9.58 seconds in the men's 100 meters at the World Championships in Berlin, Usain Bolt has told reporters "anything is possible" for the future. The triple Olympic champion, who is 22-years-old, told the official Web site of athletics world governing body (IAAF) that he could reduce his record-breaking times even further in the future. "Anything is possible. I'm just happy I won. ...

I was 14 the first time I got falling-down drunk. I was attending summer golf camp at the University of Arkansas. It was 1985, and a preternaturally talented young golfer named John Daly was my camp counselor. This was six years before Daly won the PGA Championship as a rookie. He would also become famous for his drinking, but in 1985 he was still just a big kid, five years older than I was but not especially more mature. ...

Author Kurt Andersen's new book, Reset: How This Crisis Can Restore Our Values and Renew America, examines the economic, political cultural opportunities to be found in the wake of the financial crises. In this excerpt, the first of five on TIME.com, he glances back through history to see how national destinies can change. It was fitting that as I was writing my previous book, an historical novel called Heyday published in 2007, I turned 50. Once your life has ...

Add CO2 to the atmosphere and the climate will get warmer — that much is well established. But climate change and carbon aren't in a one-to-one relationship. If they were, climate modeling would be a cinch. How much the globe will warm if we put a certain amount of CO2 into the air depends on the sensitivity of the climate. How vulnerable is the polar sea ice; how rapidly might the Amazon dry up; how fast could the Greenland ...

I've been to the White House five or six times over the years, but none of those times did I ever pick up an instrument. WASHINGTON (CNN) -- I've been to the White House five or six times over the years, but none of those times did I ever pick up an instrument. It was always for some event. "Hey, there's a reception. Come eat some finger foods, and look around and be in awe like ...

A massive fire engulfed the four-story offices of a major film company in central London on Friday, sending clouds of white smoke over the city skyline, the London fire department said. Two firefighters with minor injuries were taken to the hospital as a result of the Future Films building on Dean Street in the city's Soho district, London ambulance services said. The London Fire Brigade dispatched 12 engines and 55 firefighters to battle the blaze, which began befor ...

FOTA has blamed world motorsport's governing body the FIA after the teams' representatives walked out of a meeting, claiming the future of Formula One was once again "in jeopardy." The Formula One Teams Association, which represents eight racing outfits, issued a statement explaining its new grievance with the FIA. It said its team managers attended the Sporting Working Group at the Nurburgring in Germany on Wednesday, having resolved its differences with the FIA over the future of the world's premier ...

Bloggers and news writers are asking many questions about Jobs' return. Chief among them: Is Apple fine without its chief executive What does Jobs' health mean for Apple stock And why has Jobs' health been such a drooled-over story Jobs, a 54-year-old cancer survivor, has been on medical leave for about six months. He had a liver transplant about two months ago. Apple, maker of the iPhone, iPods and Mac computers, has remained mum on the ...

Steve Jobs, the face of Apple, is scheduled to return to work by Tuesday, and the tech community's obsession with his health and his role at the hip tech company continues. Bloggers and news writers are asking many questions about Jobs' return. Chief among them: Is Apple fine without its chief executive What does Jobs' health mean for Apple stock And why has Jobs' health been such a drooled-over story Jobs, a 54-year-old cancer survivor, has been on medical leave ...

It's amazing how a huge global phenomenon can begin. In 1984, Russian mathematician Alexey Pajitnov was playing with one of his favorite puzzles when he had an inspiration: How about creating a computer version Pajitnov wrote the program in his spare time, simplifying the idea to make it easier for those of us who aren't math geniuses. He used shapes made of four squares -- hence "Tetris," which comes from the Greek word for four, "Tetra." In ...