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Here's a trade deficit that the WTO can't fix. Every year, it seems, Japan sends its best baseball player to America's major leagues while the U.S. ships back geriatric has-beens and misfits. This year is no different. The latest Japanese export is skillful, switch-hitting shortstop Kazuo Matsui, who announced on Nov. 17 that he would leave the Seibu Lions and sign with an American team. "It's been my dream to play in the majors," says Matsui, sounding like a replay of the 2002 announcement by the New York Yankees' Hideki Matsui. (No relation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baby Godzilla Goes West | 11/24/2003 | See Source »

...slick fielder who won four Golden Gloves playing for the Lions, Kazuo Matsui batted .305 with 33 home runs and 13 stolen bases this year. Scouts liken the switch-hitter to a stronger Ichiro Suzuki, the All-Star Seattle Mariners' outfielder whose impact on the U.S. game turned Japanese players into must-haves for major-league rosters. Matsui's move will be lucrative. Several clubs have already expressed interest, including the free-spending Yankees, who are already paying $6 million a year to last year's Matsui. This year's Matsui is likely to demand a Godzilla-like salary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baby Godzilla Goes West | 11/24/2003 | See Source »

Urmi A. Desai, ’05 said that she has always thought the opportunity to switch carriers while keeping her number was interesting but that her current contract restricts her from making a move...

Author: By Alex B. Turnbull, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Cell Phone Numbers Become Portable Starting Today | 11/24/2003 | See Source »

...change to Federal Communication Commission (FCC) regulations will now allow cell phone owners to switch service providers without having to switch numbers— known as “number portability”—markedly reducing the inconvenience associated with switching carriers...

Author: By Alex B. Turnbull, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Cell Phone Numbers Become Portable Starting Today | 11/24/2003 | See Source »

...This barrier-free process means wireless customers in the top 100 markets can fully expect to switch companies beginning [today] without the kinds of obstacles that some companies have sought to impose,” Verizon Wireless said in an official statement...

Author: By Alex B. Turnbull, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Cell Phone Numbers Become Portable Starting Today | 11/24/2003 | See Source »

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