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...turns out that Jason Shiga is not actually dead, but just living in Oakland, California. This will come as welcome news to comix fans who may have been alarmed at the coda of his 2000 book, "Double Happiness," which explained that he had committed suicide in a mental institution. Shiga has since explained this Puckish bit of misinformation as a marketing ploy which backfired. I'm glad he's still around because his creations, though woefully hard to find, are some of the most fun comicbooks I've read in a long while...
...other advantages beyond its work force. It flies point-to-point domestic routes, as opposed to the complex and expensive hub-and-spoke international networks operated by other major airlines. There are no meals served onboard, no bulky drinks carts and no entertainment. Where it makes sense, as at Oakland International Airport in California and Midway Airport in Chicago, Southwest uses less expensive, less crowded secondary airports. It flies only one type of aircraft--the Boeing 737--to reduce maintenance costs and turnaround time, and it contracts out its most intensive maintenance work. That allows the airline to employ only...
Except maybe the $140 million payroll. And the obnoxious bandwagon-jumping fans. And Jason Giambi abandoning Oakland. And the embarrassment of riches that is trading for Jeff Weaver, who they don’t even start, but who would start on every other team in baseball. And trading for Raul Mondesi because you’re the only team capable of doing so, and hey, another All-Star-caliber player never hurt anybody...
There are so many other teams to like. Minnesota is the best story in baseball; their own owner wanted them to lose last year and they barely dodged contraction. St. Louis is playing out of its mind in memory of fallen pitcher Darryl Kile. Oakland won 100 games after losing Giambi and not adding much payroll. Bonds has playoff ghosts to shake, and even the people who like the Braves the least realize they should have won more than one puny world championship over the last decade. And the Angels are the saviors of baseball...
...introduction of much-needed new technologies. Within days, the $300 billion in cargo that each year surges through the 29 Pacific ports had come to a standstill. Some 160 ships loaded with everything from bananas to Nissan 350Zs began stacking up around the harbors of San Diego, Los Angeles, Oakland, Calif., Portland, Ore., and Seattle while idling truck drivers were loaded down with wine, apples and cotton#151;the perishable exports of U.S. farmers and companies needing to sell their goods around the world...