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Vance collected a bizarrely impressive stat line with four runs and three RBI on just one hit. That one knock of the game, incidentally, turned out to be his first collegiate home run—a drive to left on the first pitch he saw from Dartmouth rookie Kyle Zeis, his “best friend” and classmate at California’s Torrey Pines High School...
Eventually, yes. As long as tight supplies exert upward pressure on prices, the only way to get relief is to knock down demand for oil. Any technology that makes cars more efficient would do that, and hybrid cars are nearly 50% more fuel efficient than even the leanest conventional cars available today. The government offers tax credits for people who buy hybrids, but hybrids may not take off unless gas prices climb significantly higher. "At $3 a gallon, they start looking pretty sensible," Wyss says. Hydrogen-powered cars could make an even bigger dent in oil demand, but they...
...experiences of conventional tourism. His methods involve the imposition of arbitrary?and often absurd?constraints that turn mundane travel into a fascinating series of games. In Fly by Night, readers are invited to arrive at a destination at dusk, explore through the night, and leave before dawn. Barman's Knock involves going to your favorite bar, downing your favorite drink, asking the bartender what his favorite bar and drink are, then going there, downing that drink, and repeating the process. Then there's Monopoly Travel, which consists of exploring a city using only the streets and places featured...
...experiences of conventional tourism. His methods involve the imposition of arbitrary - and often absurd - constraints that turn mundane travel into a fascinating series of games. In Fly by Night, readers are invited to arrive at a destination at dusk, explore through the night, and leave before dawn. Barman's Knock involves going to your favorite bar, downing your favorite drink, asking the bartender what his favorite bar and drink are, then going there, downing that drink, and repeating the process. Then there's Monopoly Travel, which consists of exploring a city using only the streets and places featured...
...concern us," says Grant Winterton, Coca-Cola's regional manager for Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. The beverage titan knows the risks firsthand. Coca-Cola invested $800 million in the 1990s to build 11 plants in Russia and an extensive distribution system. The company's fortunes took a severe knock in 1998, when Russia was hit by a debt crisis and massive devaluation of its currency. But since then Coca-Cola's Russian operations have grown back to profitability, Winterton says, and it currently has half of Russia's $1.9 billion carbonated soft-drink market. And thus, concludes Winterton, "the opportunity...