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...site has barely gotten off the ground - it officially launched on Jan. 6 - it's already impressively close to its goal. Thanks in part to the countless media layoffs around the country, MNN has been able to assemble a surprisingly accomplished staff for such a new property, including Peter Dykstra, the former head of CNN's science unit, and bloggers like the New York Times's Jim Motavalli, a transportation expert. That talent has enabled MNN to get a fast start on harder environmental news, even as it does the yeoman's Web work of aggregating content from other sites...
...bill. If the phrase ''winning ugly'' had a face, it would belong to left fielder Pete Incaviglia, who thunders toward a pop fly and doesn't catch it so much as consume it. If ugly had an attitude, it would belong to center fielder and team firebrand Lenny (''Nails'') Dykstra, the Dead End Kid with an endless muddy stream of epithets and tobacco juice. If it had a clotheshorse, it would be John Kruk, the Shmoo-shaped first baseman who tore his pants lunging for a ball early in the final game and, either defiantly or absentmindedly, left his underwear...
...stock up on just the bare essentials. "I'm only spending money that I absolutely have to, like for gas and food," says Roxanne Steiny, the operations manager of a Los Angeles e-commerce firm. Some nervous home buyers are backing out of deals just before closing. Michelle Dykstra, a real estate agent in La Jolla, Calif., outside San Diego, has already seen one client walk away before signing for an $850,000 home...
...without jail time. They face fines and seizure of equipment but are typically back in business within weeks. Canada doesn't have U.S.-style mandatory sentencing laws for drug offenses. Law-enforcement officials say most Canadian judges don't view pot cultivation as a serious crime. Says Corporal John Dykstra of the Mounties: "People in the marijuana-growing business want to do business on our side of the border because the risk...