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The Trash-Talking Rivalry Between the World’s Fastest Talkers

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Who’s the fastest? It depends on what exactly you’re counting, and who you ask.

On the flight from Heathrow, Steve Woodmore began to feel afraid. A Londoner through and through, he had never been to America. In his hand was the science fiction novel Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A.

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