Word: carp
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lose again, 4-0, as Chunichi Dragons pitcher Kuo Yuan-tzu becomes only the fifth hurler in besuboru history to win 100 career games. Friday: The once mighty Giants lose, 1-0, to the fifth-ranked Yokohama Bay Stars, forcing a tight pennant race with the second-place Hiroshima Carp and third-place Dragons...
Sunday: In a Central League showdown, the first-place Yomiuri Giants beat the second-place Hiroshima Carp 3-1, making up for their worst ever defeat the day before (a 19-5 loss to the Carp). Wednesday: Orix Blue Wave superstar Ichiro Suzuki (left), who tends bonsai in his off-hours, broke a 43-year-old record with his 192nd hit of the season (George Sisler set the U.S. record of 257 in 1920). Friday: Suzuki went hitless as the Pacific Division's first-place Seibu Lions beat the second-place Orix 6-1, moving four games ahead. Rain...
...wonders to emerge from Vu Quang and adjoining forests in Vietnam and Laos. In the past two years scientists have also found evidence of what appears to be two new species of deerlike creatures -- the giant muntjac and the quang khem -- and a novel species of fish resembling carp. Since exploration is still in its early stages, hopes are high that many more discoveries will follow. The area is "a biological gold mine," says MacKinnon, who has spent 25 years as a field biologist in Asia. Says Colin Groves, a taxonomist at Australia's National University: "The region represents much...
...UMPS ARE BIASED. Pitchers carp about an elf-size strike zone and umpires who call close pitches in the batters' favor. "Borderline pitches make the difference," says White Sox starter Alex Fernandez, "and the umps don't give us those calls. They don't make guys swing the bat." Instead, hitters can wait for that fat one. Speaking of which...
...point last week. For the first time since 1978, a mayor of New York City was proposing a budget smaller than the previous year's. The actual difference -- about $102 million sliced out of $31.6 billion, or just 0.3% less than the current budget -- still caused critics to carp and unions to bawl. But Giuliani remained adamant. "Disagree with us about how we distribute the pie," said the Republican, "but agree with us that it has to be a smaller pie." It was Giuliani's most substantial signal that New York City -- the biggest spender of them all -- was joining...