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Moreover, a manager’s decisions fail as often as they succeed, depending on luck or the smallest minutiae of a player’s performance. A manager might make the logical call to take out a starting pitcher after 130 pitches over eight and two-thirds shutout innings in a 1-0 game, but fans and pundits will cry foul if the next batter hits a home...

Author: By Nathaniel S. Rakich | Title: Managing Expectations | 7/21/2009 | See Source »

...extensive was your sailing background? I've been sailing my whole life and I'd lived on boats for eight years. So I did have quite a bit of experience. But I had never done very much solo stuff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Teen Who Sailed the World Solo | 7/21/2009 | See Source »

...winds, it's pretty much like doing whatever it is you do at your house, because you set the sail and don't touch the line for three weeks at a time. The wind comes in the same direction for months. When you're doing that, you get your eight or 12 hours of sleep. Make food. I had a blog going on my website. I'd read up on the next port I was going to. Do some studying. Read a book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Teen Who Sailed the World Solo | 7/21/2009 | See Source »

...cars haven't exactly taken the world by storm. Reva - which has received venture capital from Draper Fisher Jurveston, the Global Environment Fund and Mellon HBV Master Global Event Drive Fund - has sold only 3,000 cars over the past eight years. Half of those have been exported to Europe, mainly to London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Made in India: The $12,000 Electric Car | 7/21/2009 | See Source »

...experts, while pregnancy hormones may impact a small subgroup of vulnerable women, they have little to do with PPD in most cases. In a study published in the American Journal of Psychiatry in 2000, researchers used drugs to mimic the postpartum decline of pregnancy hormones in 16 women, eight with histories of PPD and eight without. Five of the eight women who had previously experienced PPD developed mood symptoms. But none of the women who had never been depressed postpartum were affected. (Read "The Risks - and Rewards - of Pills and Pregnancy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postpartum Depression: Do All Moms Need Screening? | 7/20/2009 | See Source »

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