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...base to make a sliding catch for out number one. - Maguire walks in a six-pitch at-bat. Runner on first, one out. - A come-backer to Hofeld nearly results in a double play, but a strong throw from Stoeckel comes in just late as DiCesare legs it out avoid making the final out of the inning. - Passed ball puts DiCesare in scoring position and puts a little more pressure on Hofeld. - Intentionally walking Tamsin again. Let's see if Walsh is right twice. - Woah. Lyon hits a ball JUST foul down the third base line which would have scored...
...only up to a point. The effects triggered by chronically elevated levels of testosterone can eventually have the opposite effect. Animals observed in this same situation by scientists start to pick fights they ought to avoid, or to patrol a wider, more hazardous patch of territory. Perception of risk becomes blurred. For a trader on a roll in the midst of a bubble, for instance, that suggests "several rounds of winning means testosterone so high they start taking stupid risks," says John Coates, a former Wall Street trader turned senior research fellow at Cambridge, and lead author of the study...
...While the field concerns may have been legitimate, the Red Sox certainly could have employed a more responsible and transparent decision-making process in their treatment of the situation to avoid the flip-flop, along with the confusion and hard feelings that it caused...
...American Airlines - about 1,200 flights, more than half of its daily schedule, affecting 273,000 passengers after the Federal Aviation Administration ordered the carrier to ground 300 planes for inspection - are the aviation equivalent of a traffic cop behind on his quota blanketing a street with tickets to avoid catching heat from his sergeant. Woe unto thee unlucky enough to double park...
...time and phase in the fixes and re-inspections (as it had done just two weeks earlier), the FAA chose to ground all the planes at once. The agency has said that it's simply enforcing the rules, and American's CEO, Gerald Arpey, has been careful to avoid any criticism of the FAA. (A spokesman for the airline would only say that American would follow the rules "to every jot and fiddle.") Industry observers have not been so shy. "They were making a statement to the traveling public," says Rick Seaney, CEO of Farecompare.com, a travel website...