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...After studying 23 varsity baseball players at the University of Florida campus in Gainesville, Portal thinks he knows why. ; In last week's New England Journal of Medicine, Portal and fellow Researcher Paul Romano reported that it's mostly a matter of eye-hand dominance. The better pitchers -- and poorer hitters -- tend to have a dominant, or favored, eye and hand on the same side. But good hitters have crossed dominance: the preferred eye and hand are on opposite sides. Confusing? Not really. A pitcher needs to be able to sight along the line of a pitch. On the other...
...agree, for instance, on whether to include tear gas in that category. The issue is complicated by the fact that many of the chemicals and much of the equipment used in the production of chemical weapons are also used in the manufacture of legitimate agricultural and industrial products. The poorer nations complain that a ban on such chemicals would deprive them of agricultural fertilizers and ultimately of food. With that in mind, the Third World nations aim to insert a clause in the proposed treaty that would guarantee technical and economic assistance in exchange for their support...
...years since then, the strongman has grown more reclusive and his country more xenophobic -- and poorer. Per capita income stands at only $200 a year, well below that of China and the Philippines. Once the major rice exporter of South Asia, Burma is now barely self-sufficient in that staple. Rangoon is a seedy, decaying city where paint peels on once grand Victorian mansions; a Western visitor to the capital last week found that little had changed in the past five or six years...
Cardenas' constituency is darker and poorer and more likely to be wearing scruffy sandals than well-heeled shoes. They are often a good deal humbler than the thousands of campesinos shipped in by the ruling party to attend Salinas rallies. "All our expenses are paid by P.R.I.," said Maria Hernandez Moreno, waiting to greet Salinas in the mining town of Guanajuato. "We are brought here by bus and get lunch and sodas as well." When several hundred cheered Cardenas at a meeting in the plaza of Apaseo el Grande, an organizer proudly told the candidate, "The promise of neither...
...these groups oversees social-welfare tasks like organizing food and medical supplies for periods of curfew and supplying money to the poorer families. Another subcommittee ensures that foreign and Israeli journalists covering the uprising have access to the Palestinian side of the story. The most important committee is the one for "struggle operations." This supersecret, three- or four-member group decides what specific actions to take, from stone throwing to confrontations with the Israeli army. Once a tactic is approved, word is passed to the camp's or village's popular committee. From there, individual faction leaders mobilize their forces...