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...Suzuki, a seven-time batting champion with the Orix Blue Wave team of Kobe, signed a three-year contract with Seattle for slightly more than $14 million. He had a relatively quiet spring training, batting a decent but unspectacular .308. Some quickly proclaimed him an expensive disappointment...
...attitudes toward FGM are slowly changing. In a quiet revolution, African women are beginning to speak out against the practice. Media campaigns linking such rituals to difficulties in pregnancy and AIDS have slowed the custom, especially in urban areas. The growing number of educated women has helped too. In the countryside, success is coming not by abolishing coming-of-age rites altogether but by recognizing their importance and replacing the cutting with alternative rituals. "In some tribes you cannot become a mature woman unless you have come through the ritual," says Kittony, whose group has used alternative rites to reduce...
...Louisville, Kentucky. Doctors had given Tools, a former telephone-company worker, only a month to live before the AbioCor device was implanted at the beginning of July. His death, from internal bleeding and organ failure, was not related to the mechanical heart. DIED. GEORGE HARRISON, 58, the Beatles' quiet and wry lead guitarist, of cancer; in Los Angeles. A proponent of Eastern culture, the youngest Beatle wrote some of the group's most lyrical songs (Something, While My Guitar Gently Weeps) and in 1970 topped the charts with his solo My Sweet Lord. DIED. JOHN KNOWLES, 75, author...
...When change comes not with the river's quiet grace but explosively fast, we talk about the world being turned upside down. Sept. 11, 2001 was one of those seismic moments, a day when the planet seemed to shudder and shift on its axis. The pilots from hell who obliterated the World Trade Center and part of the Pentagon left a sense of before and after cataclysm. What followed - war, anthrax in the mail, a new airline tragedy in still-reeling New York - made overwhelming the sense that the world is now forever changed...
...quiet Sunday morning in Silicon Valley, I am standing atop a machine code-named Ginger - a machine that may be the most eagerly awaited and wildly, if inadvertently, hyped high-tech product since the Apple Macintosh. Fifty feet away, Ginger's diminutive inventor, Dean Kamen, is offering instruction on how to use it, which in this case means waving his hands and barking out orders...