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...perhaps the most rational strategy in all of sports, yet every March, and throughout the college basketball - and NBA - season, elite coaches fail to make a move that any barstool Bobby Knight would surely recommend (and will surely scream at the TV). With your team up three points, and just a few seconds left in the game, the opponent needs a long-distance three-point shot to tie it up. So, it would stand to reason, you should prevent the other player from taking that potentially heart-breaking heave by fouling him before he has a chance to shoot...
...EXTINCTION 75,000 Estimated population of Tasmanian devils, marsupials found only on the southern Australian island of Tasmania, whose numbers have been decimated by disease 10 Number of years until the species becomes extinct, experts warn, if new conservation efforts fail...
...Black, the press baron accused of looting his Hollinger International media empire, began his current trial in Chicago with at least one thought on his mind. "The prosecutors will soon, finally, have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt the guilt of completely innocent people," he wrote recently. "They will fail, and justice will be done...
...decide otherwise, consider that most business start-ups fail and that temporary problems have a way of becoming fatal ones. In other words, a lot of these loans go bad. About 14% of personal loans end up in default, according to Circle Lending, which formalizes loans between family and friends. That compares with about 1% of bank loans. So don't be surprised if your largesse ends up lost...
Should the city fail to take action, Van Beuzekom told the council she would return and “bring my hobby with me, which is rat-catching.” Van Beuzekom said this would involve a “rat trap” with “a live rat inside, to show you they do indeed exist...