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...unkindest words that could be directed your way in the South Bronx, but to members of Red Sox Nation, as fans of Boston's baseball team are known, they burned with particular intensity, scarlet letters on their sporting souls, because the words reminded them that the Red Sox hadn't tasted a World Series championship since Babe Ruth was the team's star player. For generations of New Englanders, it had been axiomatic: When the leaves fall, so do the Red Sox. Yet for 86 years, fans were bonded by this epic failure. It nurtured in them an almost messianic...
...promising young pitching prospect out of Washington and Lee University showed up for a tryout with the New York Giants (the baseball Giants, that is--they hadn't yet decamped for San Francisco). The prospect made a decent showing: three innings, three men on base, no runs scored. Good screwball, nice sinker, not much heat. "If somebody had offered me a Class D professional contract," says the prospect--whose name was Tom Wolfe--many decades later, "I would have gladly put off writing for a couple of decades...
This being a presidential-election year--in case you hadn't noticed--it didn't take long for the political campaigns to start pointing fingers. John Kerry blamed the President, saying the Bush Administration had ignored repeated warnings that the situation was deteriorating. Bush blamed trial lawyers for driving so many manufacturers out of the market in the first place. But there wasn't much evidence that voters were buying any of it. Although 61% of participants in the latest ABC News poll say they are concerned about the shortage, the issue doesn't appear to be changing their minds...
...Zhang hadn't yet been born when Nike founder Phil Knight first traveled to China in 1980, before Beijing could even ship to U.S. ports; the country was just emerging from the turmoil of the Cultural Revolution. By the mid-'80s, Knight had moved much of his production to China from South Korea and Taiwan. But he saw China as more than a workshop. "There are 2 billion feet out there," former Nike executives recall his saying. "Go get them...
WHAT WE KNOW NOW Iraq probably destroyed all or most of its agents in 1991 and '92, and hadn't shown any interest in biowarfare after it destroyed its al-Hakam bioweapons plant in '96. It now appears that the trailers the U.S. found in May 2003 weren't labs; they were intended for launching hydrogen weather balloons...