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DIED. TED WILLIAMS, 83, tough Boston Red Sox outfielder who made good on his goal to become baseball's greatest hitter with a .400 average; in Crystal River, Florida. The Hall of Famer began playing for the Red Sox in 1939. After a brief stint as a Marine flyer during World War II, he returned to Fenway Park, hitting his final major league ball?a home...
...team use a 10-minute, fast-freezing process called vitrification that he says reduces the chance of ice-crystal formation. Porcu, on the other hand, claims comparable results with a slow-freezing technique that takes about two hours and uses more highly concentrated preservatives...
Here's a classic: a fellow calling himself Crystal Jimmy promised he could get everyone on his mailing list a credit card even if the person's credit was shot. "These are often targeted to people who are having money troubles," says Grant. She explains that if you reply, Jimmy is likely to ask you for money--"an application fee or a processing fee, or whatever. It's usually hundreds of dollars." Needless to say, once Jimmy has your cash, his motivation to follow through will disappear...
...They were very good about paying their rebates all the way through until when they went under,” said Michael T. Sha ’02 over crystal-clear digital cell phone connection. Sha ended up losing some cash in the end, when the company quit sending the checks, but managed to recoup his losses by reselling some of the free merchandise he had acquired. “I probably didn’t lose much,” he says...
...police station and penned the following confession: “I, Randy Jay Gomes, diverted funds from the Hasty Pudding Theatricals to accounts over which I had control, two of mine and one of Suzanne Pomey’s. I initially stole money to buy drugs, specifically crystal meth, and continued to divert out more as the situation escalated. I also used some of the money to buy some electronic equipment and to travel. I was never proud of what I did and hoped one day when I had beat the addiction and had a job I could...