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...than $100 million for the privilege of starting these new teams Last year's minor league Denver Zephyrs vs. the Rockies in a best of seven series I'll take the Zephyrs in six, if only because they'd be more familiar with the new team's home park, Mile High Stadium, a structure perfectly designed for one sport football...
...Marlins will also inhabit a football stadium, Joe Robbie, though it makes a passable ballpark with a little bit of dressing up. The Rockies will stay in Mile High until construction on Coors Stadium (yes, it's named after the beer) is completed sometime later in the decade. This new stadium is already being billed as another Camden Yards, the year old Baltimore Orioles park which was widely praised by fans with short memories for being just like an old-style ballpark. In reality, Coors will turn out like Camden--a soulless, state-of-the-art ballpark which serve...
...head. The 150 or so correspondents now prepare themselves to trap the President for a minidrama on the nightly news, while he arms himself to deflect their barbs or smother them in warmed- over words. A game is afoot. This round went to Bill Clinton by an Arkansas mile. Next time . . . well, given the President's determination not to filter his proposals through the contentious corps, next time may be many months away. Then there is the thought that this ritual ought to expire, as a great dinosaur should...
...evidence suggests that earthquakes are incremental steps in the movement of the 20 or so lithospheric plates that make up the planet's crust. It takes about 50,000 major jolts to nudge a plate 100 miles. Eldridge Moores, the geologist who guides McPhee, believes California was formed when a 2,000- mile-long arc of land parked against North America 250 million years...
Government officials insist the Saddam River project, a 350-mile canal linking Baghdad with the Shatt al-Arab waterway south of Basra, is intended only to add 1.5 million acres to Iraq's arable land. Arif al-Delaimi, chief engineer on the project, says the southern portion of the canal was completed in the 1980s and the marshes have been drying up ever since. Instead of driving the inhabitants out, he says, the government has been resettling them around artificial lakes. But Andrew Whitley, executive director of Middle East Watch says, "The land under the water is of little agricultural...