Word: jimming
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...four walks in 6 2/3 innings—three more than he allowed in five Ivy starts in 2006, when he was named the league’s Pitcher of the Year. Meanwhile, the Crimson hitters were stuck in a malaise at the plate, baffled by Penn rookie lefty Jim Birmingham. Birmingham, despite struggling with his control—including six walks—and topping out in the mid-80’s on the radar gun, owned a no-hitter through seven innings when he was pulled. “He probably threw about 145 pitches...
...four walks in 6 2/3 innings, or three more than he allowed in five Ivy starts in 2006, when he was named the league’s Pitcher of the Year. Meanwhile, the Crimson hitters were stuck in a malaise at the plate, baffled by Penn rookie lefty Jim Birmingham. Birmingham, despite struggling with his control (six walks) and topping out in the mid-80’s on the radar gun, owned a no-hitter through seven innings when he was pulled. “He probably threw about 145 pitches,” Walsh said of Birmingham...
...drizzly afternoon, Constable Neill Simpson makes his rounds in an armored Land Rover through North Belfast, one of the few districts where it's still too dangerous for routine foot patrols. His first visit is to Jim Potts, a unionist community official. A tall green "peace fence" winds between the streets, separating unionist Glenbryn from nationalist Ardoyne. Potts tells Simpson about a small riot over the weekend involving 40 or 50 people from each side of the fence. In times past, such altercations might have had deadly consequences. Potts himself was charged with making an affray at high-profile...
...goes, but not the same as, say, a blood test for anaemia or an x-ray of a broken femur. In the search for a test offering this kind of diagnostic certainty in mental illness, two Australian researchers believe they've made a leap. Gin Malhi and Jim Lagopoulos, from the department of psychological medicine at Sydney's Royal North Shore Hospital, report detecting what appear to be abnormalities in the workings of the brain of people with bipolar disorder - a finding, they say, that could eventually allow doctors to subdue the condition before it can wreck patients' lives...
...states including Missouri and Georgia are considering their own expressions of regret for slavery, and Rep. Stephen I. Cohen, a white Tennessean, just introduced a resolution for a national apology in the U.S. House that reads, in part, "African-Americans continue to suffer from the consequences of slavery and Jim Crow - long after both systems were formally abolished - through enormous damage and loss, both tangible and intangible, including the loss of human dignity and liberty, the frustration of careers and professional lives, and the long-term loss of income and opportunity...