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...full-fledged wire service, the agency is moving to provide what might be called news fragments. A more apt name might be in order: blurb, maybe. Or blip. UPI now supplies headlines to a San Francisco paging company which displays headlines on pager screens and to a Kentucky outfit that is looking to flash headlines on LED screens in bars...
...morning before my 10-year college reunion, and I'm already totally stressed--not over the usual stuff (whether my outfit or my job is cool enough to dazzle old flames) but from trying to figure out why, despite fresh batteries and a brand-new adapter, my darned Earthmate GPS isn't talking to the DeLorme AAA Map 'n' Go software that came with it. I'd thought it would be fun and instructive if my friend Karyn and I drove to Dartmouth with no paper maps, only digital ones. I'd picked Map 'n' Go over the competition because...
...throw. I know it's not as easy as it looks, but man." Even worse, Veronica Portillo, a girlfriend of one of the players, said, "You looked a little old for the first pitch. They're usually little kids." But her friend Shannon Kroll said, "Your outfit looked good." I should reveal here that I bought Shannon a beer. In fact, I bought a lot of people beer. You can't help it when you're in Iowa. Not so much because everyone is nice but because beer is really cheap...
...Fifty-seven of the 66 major-league umpires have already signed on with the fledgling outfit, says Phillips, and the other nine may soon follow. Why? "The umpires feel underappreciated, and they think they?ll have a stronger negotiating position if they?re selling their services to the league, rather than working as employees." More leverage, more benefits, more respect ?- and, of course, more money. "Profit-sharing could even be a part of this down the road," says Baumohl. "The teams are individual companies, who share in the league revenues -- why not the umps?" The umpires? current collective bargaining agreement...
Sheila Knox sits in her backyard on a gravel road on the outskirts of Richmond, Va., and flips through old photographs of her brother Joseph O'Dell. It's hardly a typical family album. There's Bubba, as she calls him, in a schoolboy outfit, leaning up against his baby sister. Then a grownup Bubba hugging her when she visited him on Christmas Day at a Florida prison. And finally Bubba shortly before the Commonwealth of Virginia executed him by lethal injection. Knox believes they killed the wrong man. And she knows the state now has the tools to prove...