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...international ratings of math achievement, U.S. students rank about average--ninth out of 17--at Grade 4, but sink to 12th place by Grade 8, setting the stage for further slippage in high school...
...Dave Zabriskie by two seconds through the first three flat stages in early July, Armstrong took the yellow jersey after the fourth stage, a team time trial in which Zabriskie crashed, ending his Tour. Armstrong gave the jersey up for a day, to Germany?s Jen Voight, after the ninth stage, saving his strength for the Alpine climbs. Armstrong came out of the Alps with a lead, but a 12th-stage crash cost him Manuel Beltran, a teammate, or ?domestique,? who was slated to protect Armstrong on the Pyrenees climbs...
...glad I?ve got no more readings scheduled in the next little while; it feels odd recounting Game Seven yet again, when I know the team is, even then, out on some American ballfield, losing. Blowing a lead in the seventh. Giving up a walk-off in the ninth...
DIED. MICKEY OWEN, 89, All-Star catcher of the 1930s and '40s best known for an infamous play that helped the New York Yankees defeat the Brooklyn Dodgers in the 1941 World Series; in Mount Vernon, Mo. In the ninth inning of Game 4, Owen dropped a third strike against the Yanks' Tommy Henrich that would have ended the game and given the Dodgers the win. Instead, the Yanks went on to win 7-4 and took the series 4 games...
...Corp. (CNOOC) had an inkling that something was up the day they gathered in Hong Kong this spring for a regularly scheduled meeting with the firm's top management. Rumors that CNOOC, the third largest oil company in China, might make an audacious bid to buy Unocal, the ninth largest oil company in the U.S., had appeared in the financial press as early as January, although CNOOC never confirmed the stories. Board members also knew that CNOOC, in an effort to boost its ability to fuel China's booming economy, had been scouting more than 100 companies with...