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At least in spring training, baseball is neither a game of inches nor a business measured in dollars and cents, though things are pretty well calculated. In Mesa, Ariz., where the California Angels do their exercising (and exorcising), home runs are gauged by how many rows deep they soar into...
Soon, this sick young man has brought out an entire bag of groceries (including maraschino cherries, pickled peppers, and peanut butter) which he proceeds to dump on the vagrant, splattering the stage and, occasionally, the front rows of the audience. This central event culminates in a failed attempt to snap...
One afternoon Moses and his guest came to the Morijo Loita Primary School, a windswept arrangement of tin-roofed buildings on a bare hillside a few miles from Moses' boma. Several dozen schoolchildren were gathered in a classroom of the sort that made one think of the places where Abraham...
Yet contrary to myth, the old auditorium's sound was not perfect. During the 1946 filming of the movie Carnegie Hall, the ceiling above the stage was ripped open to accommodate ventilation and lights. The hole was masked by canvas panels and curtains, which may actually have enhanced the hall...
Getting fired, though, is always a jolt. Once the shock has worn off, many people are left with a fragile sense of self-esteem. Even those who remain at work are affected by layoffs, suffering both from what is often called survivor's guilt and from apprehension about their own...