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...other four - outfielder Mike Cameron and pitchers Freddy Garcia, Kazuhiro Sasaki and Jeff Nelson - are there thanks to Torre (and injuries to Yankee closer Mariano Rivera and token Devil Ray Greg Vaughn...
...Mariners are now made of players like Edgar Martinez, a quietly stellar hitter who will be batting .300 with 125 RBIs well into his 50s. Bret Boone and John Olerud are fine players and deserving, but superstars? More like hometown voting passion. Likewise Cameron, Garcia, Sasaki and Nelson - none of these guys are going to make Rodriguez-type money or do Griffey-type commercial endorsements...
...steel-caged, no-holds-barred match in which our country had to send one living writer to wrestle against the globe's Gabriel Garcia Marquez and history's Shakespeare and Dostoyevsky, I'd feel most comfortable sending in Thomas Pynchon...
...summers ago, when my wife Luci and I split a house with others at the Jersey shore, we had taken in a few Trenton Thunder games. A kid named Garcia-something was playing short for the Sox Double-A club that year, and he was worth watching. I was charmed by the lovely riverside ballfield, and the family-friendly feel of the games. There was a big, stuffed, Double-A quality mascot named Boomer and several Double-A quality contests between innings. I could tell a new science was being applied to minor league games; no doubt this was behind...
...plants, but these are not your padre's maquiladoras: some look like Italianate palaces (Johnson & Johnson) or works of modern art (Thomson electronics). Some have in-house banks, cafeterias, spic-and-span bathrooms and, increasingly, on-site training in new technologies unfamiliar to illiterate peasants from Oaxaca. Jaime Garcia, 31, an engineer from Torreon, heads an all-Mexican team of 16 young designers at Delphi Automotive Systems' Technical Center, working on steering-column prototypes for U.S. cars due out in 2004. From his wide-windowed floor, Garcia has a panoramic view of both cities. He admits that the border...