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...swore they would never forgive players for the lockout delay of Opening Day have since misplaced their rancor and delighted in the annual spectacle of stars born and reborn. Cecil Fielder, exiled to Japan last year, signs with Detroit and threatens to become the first American Leaguer to bop 50 home runs since Mantle and Maris in '61. Dave Justice, toiling in Triple A, gets promoted to the haggard Atlanta Braves in mid-May and hits 28 home runs: out of nowhere, into orbit. The arms of half the Dodgers' pitchers fall off, but the slim, steely mound grace...
...least two months ahead. Most parks keep a portion of sites off the Ticketron computers, offering them to campers on a daily basis. But getting a space without a reservation can mean hours of waiting in line with no guarantee of success. "Don't think you can just bop into any park and find someplace to stay at the last minute," says the Park Service's Priscilla Baker. "You might spend the night in your...
...Bop on the bottom line is just one way of solving what Deborah Dougherty, assistant professor of management at the Wharton School, sees as the crucial problem of the new decade: "connecting innovation with existing business." In an era of global competition, fresh ideas have become the most precious raw materials. That means companies suddenly want their employees to think on their own, which calls for enormous change at firms where imagination was once considered a subversive trait. "In the past four years, creativity has been mainstreamed," says Roger von Oech, who runs Creative Think, a Menlo Park, Calif., outfit...
...restaurant consultant Becky McGovern is situated only 100 ft. from the San Andreas fault. Although it bounced "from one side to the other," the house did not fall down. At Mariposa House Restaurant in the same town, owner Barbara Kuhl said her building "did the Shimmy, Shimmy Ko-Ko Bop, but we didn't lose a thing." Her porch, however, had "gone out to meet two little old ladies" arriving for dinner...
MILT JACKSON: BEBOP (East-West). The Modern Jazz Quartet's eminent vibes man dives deep into the bop era, working fresh wonders on eight vintage tunes, mostly by Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker. If Bird lives in Clint Eastwood's recent film biography, he gets a neat new lease on life here...