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...stopgap deal agreed to by owners last Friday aims to keep the two leagues separate for a year and delays the team merger, thereby averting a strike for at least another week. But few deny that Japanese baseball is ailing. Most teams, which exist primarily to advertise their corporate owners' name, are losing money, and fans are being drawn away by other sports, like football. Television ratings of the nation's top team, the Yomiuri Giants, have dropped 38% in the past five years, and the league's best players have defected to the U.S. Owners say austerity measures such...
...researchers could collect a better helping of such ancient stuff, that would go a long way toward explaining how the crude materials that constituted the early solar system developed into the discrete planets that exist today. For 27 months of its three-year mission, Genesis trolled through space beyond the orbit of the moon, gathering solar wind on five 4-in. hexagonal collector plates--each coated with silicon, gold, sapphire or diamond--and then stowing them back inside the body of the spacecraft. What's there could be a cosmic treasure: "A billion billion molecules for us to study," says...
...would support her three children. She still doesn't know. And the uncertainty of her fate is a question with enormous political ramifications: What do we, as a nation, do about the downside of economic globalization? In fact, the real reason why Ribbon Workers for Truth would exist would be to divert attention from that question. The Ribbies would also turn Nieves' refusal to return to work without a health plan into a "character" issue--and thus evade the essential ridiculousness of a health-insurance system that would usually provide Nieves care (through Medicaid) if she were on welfare...
...Such generosity can't be displayed by East Timor's athletes, who arrived pin-less in an Olympic Village that considers these tchotchkes a major form of diplomatic exchange. But that matters little to the citizens of a nation that didn't formally exist until two years ago. In September 1999, hundreds of East Timorese civilians were killed and one-quarter of the population sent into temporary exile during a rampage by Indonesian anti-independence militias. When news of a massacre spread, Agueda Fatima Amaral, a marathoner who constitutes half of East Timor's Olympic contingent, gathered up a couple...
...made us see. Cartier-Bresson, HCB, Hank Carter or just Henri--always said with pride and affection--was the master in whose shadow documentary photography will always exist. Before his death last week at the age of 95, he spent his life reconciling opposites, not laboriously but in an instant, with the grace of an athlete, on the run. Through his eyes we see the universal in the specific, large issues in small things, mystery in the obvious, poetry in the mundane. We see infinity in the blink...