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...ringing phrases in MacPhail's two-page reversal included: "The spirit of the rules" and "It is the strong conviction of the league that games should be won and lost on the playing field." The umpires' call was "technically defensible"; MacPhail did not blame them. With a flourish, he even commended "Manager Martin and his staff for their alertness." But all future complaints about pine tar will have to be lodged before the fact. Brett's cherished bat, "a seven-grainer," one ring for every year of a tree's troubled life, was returned...
...classics flourish in Japan, but how deep are their roots...
...chorus and seven men the dragoon soldiers. And yet the small company ample fills the intimate Agassiz stage, which is highlighted with a colorful backdrop of two birds standing nose to nose and flowers spread over the two story set. The costumes are floral as well. Characters constantly flourish huge plastic flowers, reminding us that the traits the plot hangs on are ephemeral and will wilt in time...
Then there are the scourges that have always been with us, the Legionnaire's bacteria that suddenly find an environment in which to flourish anew momentarily, or the influenza virus that undergoes minor mutations to spring forth with renewed vigor. Indeed, of all the potential disease agents looming on the horizon, it is the familiar flu virus that worries Foege the most. "I fully anticipate that possibly in our lifetime we will see another flu strain that is as deadly as 1918. We have not figured out good ways to counter that." The same holds for the most common...
...waters off Peru and Ecuador are usually an exceptionally rich fishery. As the cold Humboldt Current sweeps north from the Antarctic, it lifts a rich mix of nutrients from the ocean floor that lets a variety of marine life flourish. In 1970, Peruvian fishing boats called bolicheras (from the Spanish word for dragnet) hauled in 13 million tons of anchovies, a fifth of the world's total fish catch. Now, the warm equatorial water is blocking the upwelling of nutrients from the sea bottom. The result is economic disaster. The anchovies are largely gone. Coastal waters have turned into...