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...Wilson made the jump. He signed a minor league contract with the Brewers and was assigned to the organization’s rookie-level affiliate, the Helena Brewers, in the distant Pioneer League...
Dead or alive? It's a question that has been fodder for morning radio contests and celebrity death pools, and has even given rise to a number of websites that allow you to ascertain whether your favorite star or minor celebrity has kicked the bucket or is simply living out the rest of his or her life in obscurity. Apart from our fascination with the morbid, Internet searches on dead vs. living celebrities give us insight into the half-life of fame, as well as what drives the popularity of stars who are no longer with...
Giuseppe Berta, a professor of economic history at Milan's Bocconi University, does not endorse such views. Nevertheless, he says that the clashes in Milan were a reminder that the growing economic role of an immigrant group almost inevitably brings disruptions. Even so, these disruptions have been relatively minor since Chinese investment in Italy has, so far at least, focused on small, decentralized industries. "The Chinese presence is growing, but it's a penetration from below," says Berta...
WITH A LANDMARK 1961 book, The Destruction of the European Jews, Raul Hilberg argued that the Holocaust had resulted not from a single preconceived plan by Adolf Hitler but from a vast bureaucracy involving thousands of minor characters and decisions. In doing so, Hilberg pioneered the academic study of the Holocaust and established himself as its pre-eminent scholar...
...estimates that 1.1 billion people around the world lack safe drinking water, a number that could reach 5 billion by 2025. Very few of them live in the U.S., however. Turn on a tap almost anywhere in America, and you'll get clean, safe water--a minor miracle on much of the planet. But you wouldn't know that from the giant plastic bottles of water that many of us haul around as if preparing for a stroll in the Sahara. Americans drank more than 8.25 billion gal. (more than 31 billion L) of bottled water...