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Starting this week, cell-phone users will finally be able to keep their old numbers if they change carriers. If you're making a switch, there are some points you should bear in mind. At first only customers in the 100 largest U.S. metro areas can switch; others must wait until May. Make sure you're free of the contract that binds you to your old service: if you modified a plan or bought a phone in the past 12 months, you're probably still under contract, and breaking it could cost you $150. Don't cancel your existing service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tech: Playing The Numbers | 12/1/2003 | See Source »

...Land of the Rising Sun, Matsui is considered the best everyday player. The 28-year-old switch-hitter-who is not related to Yankees leftfielder Hideki Matsui (whose 1.88-m, 95-kg frame and status as Japan's premier power hitter led to Kazuo's being dubbed Little Matsui)-has won four Gold Gloves, batted better than .300 for seven straight years, hit at least 20 homers in each of the past four seasons and stolen 30 or more bases five times. In a millennium poll, fans voted him the greatest Japanese shortstop ever. He was 24 at the time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Little Matsui Steps Up | 12/1/2003 | See Source »

...course, the Yankees already have Derek Jeter and the Red Sox have Nomar Garciaparra-All-Star shortstops who aren't going to change positions. Assuming Boston doesn't trade Garciaparra, who's in the final year of his contract, they would switch Matsui to second; New York would put him either at second (trading Alfonso Soriano or setting him to graze in the outfield) or third (replacing Aaron Boone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Little Matsui Steps Up | 12/1/2003 | See Source »

...deficiency came despite the Crimson’s switch from man-to-man to the zone defense...

Author: By Timothy J. Mcginn, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Harvard's Strong 'D' Only Delays Its Defeat | 11/26/2003 | See Source »

Trying to satisfy students includes keeping a wide selection of products like cereals and bag candies on the shelves and may include a switch to Crimson Cash next year...

Author: By Wendy D. Widman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ‘Mr. Tommy’ Looks to Future | 11/26/2003 | See Source »

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