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...Helling said he never saw a player inject steroids, but he heard all the clubhouse talk about what players were doing, as they would euphemistically put it, to "get an edge." Helling himself had a very clear understanding of what was cheating and what was not. He was born in Devils Lake, North Dakota, and became one of only 15 men born in that state to become a big leaguer. He attended Stanford University and made his major league debut with Texas only two years after the Rangers selected him with a second round pick in the 1992 draft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man Who Warned Baseball About Steroids | 2/23/2009 | See Source »

...Yahoo has lost its place as a meaningful player in the media and in the world of the internet because it has the same e-mail, content, TV guide, shopping, mapping, and personal ad sections as the other portals do. None of these is distinguished. These features are, as a matter of fact, nearly interchangeable with the similar features that its competitors offer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Yahoo! Doesn't Matter Anymore | 2/23/2009 | See Source »

...global finance markets. On Sunday, officials from eight E.U. countries wound up an economic summit in Berlin calling for tougher regulations on international financial markets-including secretive hedge funds and the tax havens they often rely on to do business. The question is: will the U.S., the biggest financial player in the world, ever agree to the binding international regulation the Europeans seek...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe Calls for Tougher Rules on Global Markets | 2/23/2009 | See Source »

...Harvard—the longest win streak for any collegiate sport—and easily captured win 201.“Trinity is an unstoppable force right now,” said DiSesa of the eventual national champions. “We know they have a lot of great players, but a lot of us have the ability to play with them, so this is the matchup we wanted.”Trinity swept the Crimson in what seemed like lopsided play. The Bantams asserted their supremacy with 3-0 victories in seven of nine matches.The day started off with...

Author: By Brian A. Campos, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Crimson Comes Up Short at National Tourney | 2/23/2009 | See Source »

...professor, and multi-instrumentalist (piano, violin and accordion) takes his talent to the streets of Harvard Square. One might have spotted Michel last summer playing Klezmer music with Ted Sharpe ’76, a computational biologist at The Broad Institute at MIT and an amateur fiddle player. Michel and Sharpe are not the only street performers who boast an impressive resume of academic credentials and musical training. Street performers around Cambridge and Boston defy the stereotypical perception of performers as glorified panhandlers. Many of them are at least college-educated and have a range of other careers available...

Author: By Bora Fezga and Melanie E. Long, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Harvard Square Center of Performing Smarts | 2/20/2009 | See Source »

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