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Next up was Merloni, who had botched a grounder mere minutes before that could have resulted in an inning-ending double play instead of an eventual Yankee run. Merloni couldn’t atone for his blunder and struck out, giving Mussina his 13th K of the game and putting him within an out of perfection...
...authority. Except for 1992 when a raid on a tanker belonging to former President Suharto's wife prompted mass arrests, he has successfully evaded his pursuers for 25 years. Says the pirate king: "Our culture is a water culture and there have been pirates here since the 12th or 13th century. You have to have courage and spiritual strength to be a pirate and Palembang men have it." And discipline? The pirate king almost chokes laughing...
...decades its museums have been robbed of hundreds of their most valuable items. In an infamous break-in at the National Museum in Ile-Ife in 1994, thieves with an inside contact smashed open 11 display cases. Their haul, which included some of the best-known 12th and 13th century Ife terra-cotta and brass heads--all uninsured--was worth about $200 million. It was the museum's third burglary that year. Nigerian traders also target villages like Kawu, buying artifacts from locals or encouraging rudimentary digging. "It's not exactly excavation," says Abiye Ichaba, head of research and documentation...
Ironically, some e-banks are dealing with the catch-22 of being branchless by building branches. E*Trade Bank, 13th largest FDIC-insured savings bank by assets and leader of the Internet-onlies by a mile, piggybacks on its parent, which opened a superstore in April in New York City, and is launching mini-branches in Target stores across the country...
This week's Innovators on marketing is the 13th installment in a series profiling people we think will make a profound mark on the new century. So perhaps you're wondering who our pick for the next avatar of yoga is or who the next wave of civic leaders are. --Find the whole Innovators epic at time.com/innovators...