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Today is your last chance to help decide who makes Time magazine’s list of the 100 most influential people on Earth; polls close at midnight. The newsmagazine, as we know, thinks quite highly of You, and so it has set up a Website on which you can vote for Your favorite candidates. Who’s leading? Well, we’ll grant that Time perhaps set itself up for trouble by putting David Beckham’s picture first on the voting page, and we’ll also acknowledge that this is, of course, the Internet, but, still: wow. Currently, the leaders are Rain (a Korean singer), Stephen Colbert, hockey star Sidney Crosby, video-game designer Shigeru Miyamoto, and Dane Cook. (To be fair, the highly substantive science writer Richard Dawkins is ranking sixth — though he’s seeming vulnerable to a late-breaking challenge from Kiefer Sutherland.) Noted statesmen as Sanjaya, John Mayer, and Salma Hayek are comfortably in the top 100, while it appears that John McCain, the Pope, and Osama bin Laden won’t be making the voters’ cut. Oh, You. (Time editors, by the way, will announce their own, presumably less-top-40-focused choices in Friday’s magazine.) —Ben Mathis-Lilley
The Time 100 — Are They Worthy? [Time.com]
