There are 124 days till 2009. There was once a wise young tortoise who read in an ancient book about a tortoise that had beaten a hare in a race. He read all the other books he could find but in none of them was there any record of a hare that had beaten a tortoise. The wise young tortoise came to the natural conclusion that he could outrun a hare, so he set out in search of one. After many days, the tortoise finally encountered a hare and challenged him to a race. “Read this,” said the tortoise. He showed the hare the story in the ancient book, complete with the moral about swift not always being to terribly fast. “Tosh,” said the hare. “You couldn’t go fifty feet in an hour and a half, while I can go fifty feet in one and a fifth seconds.”