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...Baseball fans, however, could gain one from the nippy weather. Too much of baseball is needlessly slow and drawn out these days, with both pitchers and hitters taking their time between pitches, but cold temperatures could change all that. Pitches know that if they don't work fast enough out there on the mound, the infielders and outfielders won't be very happy. "Get the ball, get back on the hill," Hershiser says. "Get the ball, get back on the hill. You don't want your fielders in a bad mood...
...patients. The goal, I guess, is to avoid situations like: "Hey, Mom, did you know that lady from church has syphilis?" Of course, we couldn't put a bag over Johnny's head, and he wouldn't have wanted that. He seemed happy for everyone to know him. The slow, cheerful deliberateness with which he acknowledged each of his new admirers shone warmly, calming the nervous air of my stressed-out suburbanite waiting room...
...previously undreamt of degree of prestige and will hopefully funnel both money and brainpower toward future research on ways to mitigate and even reverse the current climatic trajectory. Gore and the IPCC have raised awareness about climate change, but progress to reduce or reverse climate change remains slow and unsteady. Momentous shifts in the national and global psyches will be necessary to confront the problem of climate change, as the Norwegian Nobel Committee expressed on Friday. Action is necessary now, before climate change moves beyond man’s control...
...current factional infighting will have a huge impact on how the country is run for the next five to ten years or more, says Huang Jing, a China scholar with the Brookings Institute in Washington. Those leaders aligned with Hu broadly back his (so far unsuccessful) attempts to slow the country's obsessive pursuit of growth at all costs, engineer a soft landing for the overheated economy and ensure that the hundreds of millions of Chinese left behind by the extraordinary boom of the last two decades aren't permanently marginalized. Aligned against them is a group of leaders (often...
...however, seem willing to wait for Pakistan's slow evolution to democracy. Kunwar Khalid Yunus, a member of the National Assembly who is aligned with Musharraf's party, says that the power-sharing deal between Bhutto and Musharraf, unpopular though it may be, is Pakistan's best hope for tackling militancy in the present. "Benazir is not going to work alone. She will work in a troika with the new chief of army staff and Musharraf, and their exercise will be the eradication of religious extremism. Together these three forces are going to be more effective than Musharraf alone." Frustrated...