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Major-league baseball owners voted to declare an impasse and implement a salary cap -- the first step on the road to a 1995 season played by scab major leaguers -- if there is no settlement in the sport's four-month-old strike...
...thankfully, the Reds and Astros were playing a barnburner in Cincinnati. Even shivering as I always am in such situations (the song and dance is always the same: "No, thanks, I'll be fine in shorts and a T-shirt"), I had to enjoy it as our little scab game went into extra innings, tied 1-1. Bagwell had a round-tripper, and when the Astros wriggled out of a bases-loaded jam in the 10th, I was settling in for an historic marathon...
...fish, newts, jellyfish and other aquatic animals. So even with 750 workers who service life-support and mechanical systems still on strike, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration vowed to launch the space shuttle Columbia on time Friday at 12:43 EDT. The strikers-- who watched scab workers file in today--walked out Tuesday because of a beef with EG&G Florida Inc., which holds NASA's $1.9 million base-operations contract.parpar
...juxtaposition is absurd: Franklin and his wife fascinate historians because they embody so perfectly the courage and blind arrogance of 19th century Britain, but Subzero and Reepah are simply dreary. And Subzero, picking moodily at the scab of his 20th century conscience, fretting that the Inuit find him contemptible, giving tips on Arctic trekking (down sleeping bags collect moisture and freeze; masturbation at very low temperatures isn't worth the trouble) is just not as interesting to Vollmann's readers as to the author himself...
...Each "scab" candidate attended a camp in Indiana last weekend set up by the league to familiarize them-selves with the rules changes that they may be exposed...