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...hurling circle. Finley, who also roams the outfield, and Snyder are two of Princeton’s top offensive threats as well. Second Team All-Ivy selections junior second baseman Kristin Lueke and senior outfielder Wendy Bingham have been solid this spring at the plate. Freshman outfielder Stephanie Steel has come in and started every game, and is currently second on the team in RBI. Two of the Tigers three Ivy losses last season came at the hands of the Crimson, so Harvard has shown it can certainly hang with the champs...
Sooner or later, the lure of profit will steel the nerves. "If there is business here, if there are contracts to be had, people will come," says Stephen Orr, 41, from Mill Valley, Calif. A former assistant vice president at Merrill Lynch, Orr has spent months in Iraq helping the Iraqi-American Chamber of Commerce organize an international trade fair, Destination Baghdad Expo, which is scheduled to take place in the city next month. Only about 20 U.S. companies, including General Electric and Motorola, have registered. Orr suspects that many companies are discreetly sending Iraqi representatives to seek out contracts...
Andy Allen, clad in his chef’s whites, stands in the cold steel confines of a walk-in refrigerator, clutching a bag of turkey noodle soup while recounting his pursuit of the perfect piece of pasta...
...bridges are unusual for having asymmetrical flourishes, canted curves that slant against the water or--as in his first American span, a $23.5 million glass-and-steel footbridge in Redding, Calif., that opens next month--a long, slender tail fin at one end that operates as a sundial. "Asymmetry allows you to explore," he says. "You can emphasize things having to do with the position of the city against the water or the curvature of the stream...
...cutbacks, BNSF plans to hire 1,600 employees this year and 1,000 more in each of the next five years. "I don't know if this is railroad's new Golden Age," says BNSF's boss, "but we haven't suffered the carnage of other businesses like steel and the airlines." Not that Rose doesn't dream big. Eventually, he says, the country's railroads won't be divided between East and West, and there will be a true transcontinental network. Then the big boards at the NOC will really get busy...