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...first major primary vote next Tuesday, the momentum Kerry gained with his Iowa victory has already given him a bounce. Although he had trailed Dean by 30 percent at one point, the latest Reuters/MSNBC/Zogby poll shows Dean leading Kerry 25 to 23 percent, with a four percent margin of error...
Baseball is a game of errors and redemption. It is a game that keeps track of mistakes and features them as part of the official line score--runs, hits, errors. Pete Rose made the ultimate error by betting on baseball while he was managing the Cincinnati Reds in the late '80s. Although he consistently denied his guilt, he accepted a lifetime ban from the game. For the next 14 years, Rose continued to publicly deny that he had ever bet on baseball. The arrival last week of his new book, in which he finally confessed, stunned the baseball world. Rose...
...gone away aren't coming back, and the only way to create new ones is the hard way--through innovation and a better-educated work force. But Dean's brand of straight talk leaves little room for complexity, and his self-proclaimed "intuitive" style leaves plenty of room for error...
...forward in a head-to-head match with Bush, despite a month of good news for the President that has included both a rebounding economy and the capture of Saddam. Though Dean still loses to Bush 51% to 46% among likely voters, he is just within the margin of error...
...Caroll Neubauer proudly displays a large metal chamber where cardboard boxes packed with finished goods are sterilized. "This used to be outsourced," Neubauer says with a smile. "We brought it back in." By improving the machines and training its staff to run them, the company has reduced its error rate to the point that its sterilization process is a competitive advantage--one that, in the end, is just as important as cost. "The more innovative you are, the higher your pricing power," Neubauer says...