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...couldn't get out of, and I got out of them." Now closers get those all-important saves by pitching a single inning or less. So they are able to pitch in more games and build their statistics. Gossage isn't the only former big leaguer with a beef. Today's hitters, thanks to smaller ballparks and steroids, hit far more home runs. Gossage contends that players from the 1970s and '80s whose numbers don't compare with those of modern-era hitters like Barry Bonds and Rafael Palmeiro (both of whom have denied knowingly using steroids) have been wrongfully...
Pollan divides our food sources into four categories. One is industrial, meaning giant agribusiness. Then there are the two kinds of organic, large and small scale. Finally there's anything hunted and foraged. He goes on an adventure down each food chain, fattening a beef calf for market or following the path of industrial corn all around the country. Each trip ends in a meal made of foods from that category...
...from Harvard can study in Indian universities and vice versa,” Summers told the Times. “I also want to start exchange programs between business and public health experts in U.S. and India.” The outgoing president also said that the University would beef up its India-related academic offerings. “We are working hard towards building a program especially on India, the subcontinent and South Asia studies,” Summers said, according to the newspaper. “Like people study political science, culture, public health, economics, law and medicine...
...said Liu. Unlike some of their professional counterparts, these freshman rhymesters haven’t let feuding come between them. “Hang’s an amazing freestyler, and I think a lot of him as a rapper. There’s definitely no beef,” Mure says. Their amity is probably a good thing, as Liu aspires to work in the music industry as a producer. And if these two keep collaborating, old-establishment Harvard might get a rep for underground...
...voters. He may be looking for some room to maneuver. On Friday night, the Prime Minister met with university rectors, many of whom have urged him to retract the law. Villepin signaled little willingness to do so, but there were signs that the government may be ready to beef up job protection in other ways, possibly by increasing the tax burden on employers who purposely use short-term contracts for revolving-door workers, and stiffening the laws regulating the use of internships. Yet withdrawing the law is no easy matter: the only legislative course would be a humiliating request...