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...perfect foil for his flightier fellow Dominicans, Ramirez and Martinez. Ramirez plays left field, but that's more of an address than a position. On bad days, he fields fly balls like a Border collie, running left and right to herd the ball toward him. He can forget standard obligations: running to first base on a grounder, say. Last fall the Bosox offered him to any team that would eat the remainder of his $160 million contract--no takers. Lucky for Boston. Ramirez this year was calm and focused and hit a ton. "This team has a mentality that...
...chemical engineer was asked to make a small battery that would last for more than a few minutes. He was quite successful: at a demonstration for company executives, one toy car, equipped with an older battery, quickly slowed to a halt while another, powered with his now standard alkaline battery, raced around and around the cafeteria. Urry, according to his son Michael, was a modest man who "took special pride around Christmas, when there was a rush for batteries...
...study released last week by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. Since half the 28,000 fatal passenger-vehicle accidents that occur each year involve a single vehicle, the report noted, some 7,000 lives could have been saved in 2003 alone if ESC had been a standard feature on all vehicles. The report follows similar findings released by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in September...
...size model. A 256-MB player holds about eight hours of music or 120 songs, which means you will be refreshing your playlist frequently. That is relatively easy, especially with devices like Creative Labs' Muvo TX FM ($80 for 128 MB or $100 for 256 MB), which has a standard USB port built in so that you can plug it directly into your computer...
...like the one used in the presidential elections, are common; candidates who agree to spending caps receive matching public funds for all small and mid-size contributions. But this system has failed to curb the influence of special interest money in the campaigns. Full public financing remains the gold standard for campaign finance reform...