Word: backups
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This year Fireovid is still getting them out for the Pittsburgh Pirates' top minor-league club. But for sheer endurance his story is overshadowed by the resurrection of Warren Cromartie, 37, who returned after six years in Japan to become a backup first baseman for the Kansas City Royals. In Slugging It Out in Japan (Kodansha International; $19.95), Cromartie, once a star outfielder with the Montreal Expos, vividly recounts his frustrations as a gaijin home- run king with the Tokyo Giants. The transformation of baseball to fit Japanese cultural norms is familiar terrain for anyone who has read Robert Whiting...
...radioactivity into the environment. Most commercial reactors guard against meltdown by ensuring that the fuel is always surrounded by circulating coolant, usually ordinary / water. But what if a pipe bursts and the water is lost? Or if the water boils off? To prevent such mishaps, today's reactors have backup systems and backups to the backups. But no matter how many layers of redundancy are built into a conventional reactor, it can never be 100% safe from a meltdown...
...most qualified; I cast my vote with him as well. Some committee members also expressed support for one of the minorities interviewed, and he became the committee's second choice. Later, he dropped out of the running, leaving the other white male to take his place as the backup...
Youth abounds behind the plate as the Crimson will feature two freshmen and a sophomore at the catcher position. Phil Andriola returns after hitting .276 as a backup in his rookie campaign. The freshman backstops are Dave Morgan and Sean Flynn...
Near the gas-monitoring machines and scattered around the bases are live chickens. The machines' sirens will sound if there are chemical agents in the air, but the birds are the backup. Coal miners used canaries to warn against poisonous gases; the desert uses chickens. One air base named its newspaper after its chicken -- Buford Talks -- on the grounds that as long as the bird is squawking, they are safe. When peace comes, the soldiers daydream, they will hold a barbecue...