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...Mart's modest offices across town--a sea of small cubicles plastered with Sam Walton's inspirational messages (DON'T ALLOW YOURSELF TO FALL INTO DIFFICULT SITUATIONS YOU CAN'T CHANGE!) in Chinese--Hatfield is staging his own little revolution. He runs 46 stores today but has much bigger plans. In two years, Wal-Mart will double that number and, in the next year alone, he will train some 25,000 new employees in the art of delivering those everyday low prices to China's growing middle class. It's a grueling, nonstop job. Hatfield has visited 70 Chinese cities...
...before home crowds so sparse, the catchers could hear individual fans ask for peanuts. Or maybe it's the pitching staff, one of the toughest in the league to score against. Or it might be manager Frank Robinson, a gutsy ex-outfielder who almost decked a much younger--and bigger--guy last week as he tore after Los Angeles Angels manager Mike Scioscia, who had cursed him during a confrontation over a rules violation...
...recounts, Hill posed as the middleman for an Arab tycoon. He solves the Munch case by pretending to be a buyer for the wealthy J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, a role that allows him, as his work often does, to accessorize lavishly: seersucker suit, big bow tie, bigger Mercedes. It also requires him to steep himself in Scream scholarship. To ensure that con men would not try to fool him with a counterfeit version, he even memorized the pattern of wax droplets left on the work when Munch blew out a candle one night...
...fans like to describe our passion in religious terms, as if the places our heroes play were secular cathedrals. It's easy to see why. When you truly, deeply love a sports team, you give yourself up to something bigger than yourself, not just because your individuality is rendered insignificant in the mass of the crowd but also because being a fan involves faith. No matter what its current form may be, your team is worthy of blind devotion. Belief is all. As Brooklyn Dodgers fans said in the 1950s: Wait till next year...
According to the NRC and the NEI, a force as big as Atta's band or anything bigger than the DBT is an "enemy of the state." That means it's the Pentagon's problem. "We recognize that there can be threats to our plants that are greater than what is defined by the DBT," Marvin Fertel, chief nuclear officer of the NEI has told Congress. "Although our security would provide an initial deterrence, at some point such threats are the responsibility of the Federal Government." That wouldn't necessarily do the plant's defenders any good, though. "They could...