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There's a huge difference. In my career, everyone used a little wooden racket. You see players today standing 10 feet behind the baseline and hitting clean winners. That's when I say to myself, "This is not a game I know much about." There's always a lot of talk on whether today's players could play with a wooden racket. I'm sure Federer could. But other players would battle just to enjoy the game with a wooden racket. They'd make so many mistakes...
...announced over a month ago that it was raising the pandemic alert to phase 5 (out of six phases), there were 114 confirmed cases in just a handful of countries, along with an unknown - though suspected to be large - number of infections in Mexico. That wasn't a huge total, but H1N1 was clearly spreading and it fit the WHO's very specific criteria for the pandemic phase to change from level 4 to level 5: it was a novel influenza virus that was sustaining human-to-human spread in at least two different countries (in that case...
Peruvian President Alan Garcia is furious. His plans to open huge parts of the country's Amazon jungle to foreign investors are crumbling and the woman he was grooming to lead the Cabinet is politically wounded, a casualty of violent protests by indigenous people in the northern jungle last weekend...
...piggybacking on the NIH-funded National Children's Study, which is enrolling 100,000 women who are or plan to become pregnant, with the goal of tracking the development of children from before birth to adulthood. Tack on some questions and blood draws and suddenly you've captured a huge number of potential subjects. But expanding the study costs money. Second Wavers like Georgetown bioethicist Maggie Little have begun searching for members of Congress who are willing to take up their cause. "This issue could make somebody on the Hill a hero," she says...
...done it so successfully that he may have inspired a minor ventriloquism renaissance. Terry Fator, a singing ventriloquist who won America's Got Talent in 2007, now has a 10-year contract at the Mirage in Vegas. "Jeff was a huge inspiration to me," he says. "But I'm competitive now. I've got a DVD coming out too." And at least one dummy manufacturer says business...