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...fans, the choice is an easy one - play the man. Even though he's not playing well, Ripken is the leading vote-getter at third base for this year's All-Star Game in Seattle on July 10. And, on the day he announced his pending retirement, all 19,600 remaining tickets for the Orioles' Sept. 30 season-ending game at Yankee Stadium were sold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cal Ripken, Jr. | 6/22/2001 | See Source »

ATTENTION GETTER Hey, parents! We've finally found a video-game system designed to lengthen--not shorten--your child's attention span. Developer East3 redesigned some NASA biofeedback technology to build the Attention Trainer, a helmet that monitors brain activity through the scalp. The data are relayed wirelessly to a PC and used in special games developed by Hasbro Interactive in which vehicles move faster or targets grow larger when players focus their attention. At about $1,000, it's not quite ready for the PlayStation crowd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Toy Fair 2001 | 2/26/2001 | See Source »

vote separately from those choices, with the highest vote-getter becoming...

Author: By Imtiyaz H. Delawala, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Council Considers Elected Mayor | 1/31/2001 | See Source »

...also find themselves on the side of states' rights in arguing against the Republicans that state rather than federal courts should be the final arbiter of state election laws. Bush brought the case to the Supreme Court, and it might be considered moot if he's the top vote getter in the later as well as earlier tallies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election 2000: The Legal Challenges | 12/4/2000 | See Source »

...vote-getter in his district, Seton got his first choice of sub-committee within the UC. He chose the Student Affairs Committee--the same committee on which his brother served...

Author: By Alex B. Ginsberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Seton and Seton | 10/30/2000 | See Source »

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