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...Victory is a model for brownfield development. What used to be an empty field has real potential to boost downtown Dallas," says local EPA boss Stan Hitt, whose offices overlook the arena site. Mayor Ron Kirk, who supported the project despite early opposition in town, is fairly beaming. "The manufacturers and polluters abandoned this 30 years ago, but we've cleaned it up and put it back on the tax rolls," he says. And Victory is just one big win for Dallas. Not counting that project, the city has leveraged $600,000 in EPA grants into $835 million in private...
...NOTES: Ripken is one of only seven players to amass more than 400 home runs and 3,000 hits. The six others are Hank Aaron, Willie Mays, Eddie Murray, Stan Musial, Dave Winfield & Carl Yastrzemski... Pete Rose owns the 11th- and 15-longest playing streaks in major league history (745; 678). The sum of those streaks still falls 1,209 games short of Ripken's mark... Ripken holds the major league record for home runs hit by a shortstop, with 345... 5,045 players were put on the disabled list from the time Ripken started his consecutive games streak...
MARCH 30--Is host at a lunch for Hall of Famers such as Whitey Ford, Yogi Berra, Stan Musial and Nolan Ryan, where he announces his T-Ball Initiative: he and Laura will play host to T-ball games on the South Lawn to promote the national pastime. (First game was scheduled for last Sunday...
Only one thing about this genial and savage film must sadden us: it is the first-produced feature screenplay by a writer named Stan Seidel, who died while the movie was in post-production. His was, obviously, a rare sensibility, unpredictable, unsentimental, unsparing and, most important, unlike anyone else's. Bless his memory. See his movie...
During this time period legendary creators like Jerry Siegel, Bob Kane and Stan Lee took the fledging industry in their hands and gave it a firm foundation on which everything since has been built. These people were the pioneers and visionaries responsible for creating the Supermans, Batmans and Spidermans who have graced so many pages over the years, characters who have leaped out of the panels and into our cultural heritage...