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...some grizzled baseball types who don't believe in miracles say the answer can be found in Martinez's extraordinary fingers--long and slender like those of a pianist. They allow him to grip the ball longer and spin it fiercely, making it sing and dance. From the same arm motion, Pedro can deliver four very different pitches. He has a straight fast ball that approaches 100 m.p.h., a cut fast ball that moves in on left-handed hitters, a curve that suddenly dives for the plate and the game's best change-up, which often has a red-faced...
...sports stars, from Martha Stewart to Joe Montana, are jumping on the VC bandwagon. In the past several months, corporate heavyweights IBM, News Corp., Time Warner (parent of TIME) and Arthur Andersen, to name a few, have launched their own funds. Even the CIA has set up a venture arm, In-Q-Tel. And later this year, Silicon Valley start-up MeVC, along with VC Draper Fisher Jurvetson, will roll out a publicly traded venture fund that lets individuals with a net worth of at least $150,000 plunk down a minimum of $5,000 to play...
...between what a person gets on welfare vs. on the job. Indeed, Europe's overall fiscal health and strong growth prospects present a golden opportunity to launch those moves. But like all other opportunities, it may be fleeting. Says Romano Prodi, head of the European Commission, the regulatory arm of the E.U.: "We must act now, because the challenges facing us cannot wait...
...Recently, NASA released a report claiming the robotic arm on its Mars Polar Lander was a success. Last week F. James Sensenbrenner Jr., chairman of the House Committee on Science, ridiculed the report, pointing out that the whole contraption crashed on the red planet before the robotic arm was ever deployed. Was NASA trying to pull a fast...
...Technically, no. Long before the crash, NASA chose specific projects to include in its annual report. As luck would have it, the only part of the lander mission they chose to rate was the robotic arm, and when they tested it on earth, it worked like a charm. If you lost a $165 million lander because of a missing line of computer code, wouldn't you try to accentuate the positive...