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...Glasgow-to-London mail train in 1963; from Rio de Janeiro to the Belmarsh prison in London. Strokes have weakened the once fun-loving outlaw. Though many suspect that he turned himself in to seek medical care in prison, he insists all he wants is a pint in a pub before he dies...
This year may be criti-cal. With two Japanese playing for the Seattle Mariners - Ichiro and vet-eran star reliever Kazuhiro Sasaki - Japan's pub-lic broadcasting company, nhk, may set a record for the most televised U.S. major league games in a single year. Says veteran sportswriter Kozo Abe, who has covered baseball on both sides of the Pacific: "The Japanese are finally beginning to realize how much better American big league baseball is - in real competition, that is, not goodwill games - in terms of power, speed, technique and depth. That could spell doom for Japan's game...
...Public Library of Science is asking scientific journals to make their material free and fully searchable within six months. The group plans to use Pub-Med Central, a website run by the National Library of Medicine as the home for the search engine...
...According to the managing editor of the Journal of Cell Biology, the magazine is not averse to allowing free content through its website but does not want to be searchable through Pub-Med central...
...However, Kirschner said the resistance to a government-run search engine was unfounded. There would be no direct oversight of journal content, and the search engine would simply be based around an already well-known scientific resource, Pub-Med Central...