Word: spans
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...home game will be played on Sunday, Sept. 23. It'll be a bittersweet day for all baseball fans, but most of all for the citizens of Baltimore. He's theirs. Always was, for 21 years. It's an anomaly in today's sporting culture that a player could span his entire Hall of Fame career in one city. Barry Bonds, Alex Rodriguez, Ken Griffey Jr., Roger Clemens - all traveling salesmen by comparison. We cheer uniforms, not players (who can keep track?) these days, but Ripken made it easy to be an Orioles...
...overkill hypothesis is actually quite plausible. That's because it was not necessary for human hunters to do in every last animal. All people had to do was kill slightly more animals than were born, a process that Alroy's model suggests could easily have taken place over a span of 1,000 years. Ecological upheavals owing to climate change and outbreaks of epidemic disease could then have sped up the process, although Alroy's model did not factor these...
Juarez and its outskirts are dotted with enormous new plants, but these are not your padre's maquiladoras: some look like Italianate palaces (Johnson & Johnson) or works of modern art (Thomson electronics). Some have in-house banks, cafeterias, spic-and-span bathrooms and, increasingly, on-site training in new technologies unfamiliar to illiterate peasants from Oaxaca. Jaime Garcia, 31, an engineer from Torreon, heads an all-Mexican team of 16 young designers at Delphi Automotive Systems' Technical Center, working on steering-column prototypes for U.S. cars due out in 2004. From his wide-windowed floor, Garcia has a panoramic view...
...these two players who helped Harvard bounce back from a horrific 1-10 start. The lone win over that month-long span came in a 54-45 home contest against New Hampshire. Losses came against national teams Florida and Arkansas, as well as more local competition like Northeastern...
...They have no attention span, so it has to be infinitely useful,” Delvecchio said...