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...baseball's economics thrive, more teams can afford high-profile players to fill the DH spot: the Toronto Blue Jays can sign Frank Thomas, who hit 39 home runs for Oakland last season, to a two-year, $18 million contract, and Oakland can give Mike Piazza one-year, $8.5 million deal to replace him. The result is a concentration of DH talent the game has never seen before. "It's unusual," says veteran Texas Rangers scout Mel Didier. "You usually have two or three of those Hall of Fame caliber guys, but seven or eight...
Unlike its more primitive predecessor, this enhanced web is not merely about people going online to request content, but involves individuals actively contributing and exchanging information themselves. MySpace and Facebook thrive on content created by some users and downloaded by others. Whereas blogs spawn localized news and controversial opinions, websites are increasingly emphasizing interactive information available to anyone willing enough to click...
...rail connection, which opened in January, means the majority of Taiwan's population can reach Tainan in less than two hours, raising hopes that the island's spiritual and cultural center will thrive once again. "This is where Taiwan's modern civilization began," says Tsai Bi-ju, Tainan's international-affairs section chief, referring to the city's 200-year reign as the island's capital before Taipei replaced it in 1885. Tainan's founding father, a Ming dynasty general called Koxinga, arrived from China in 1661 with a fleet of artists and scholars, intent on transforming the Dutch-ruled...
...latest assault aims to protect the thousands of birds, wildlife and even some endangered species that wildlife experts and activists claim die annually from ingesting spent ammo that gets left in the mountains, prairies, and forests where the hunted species thrive. As an alternative, "get-the-lead-out" advocates want hunters to start using copper, bismuth, tungsten, steel, tin, and other alloys in their bullets...
...year. On an hourly basis, that's barely above what Wal-Mart is paying in its Secaucus, N.J., store. Maybe the cops can get a second job to make ends meet, since they can't afford to live in the city they protect. The same city where sweatshops thrive in Chinatown, immigrant Mexican help has been grossly underpaid by immigrant Korean deli owners, and immigrant African deliverymen had been getting $1.25 per hour at unionized Manhattan supermarkets (relying on tips) until authorities finally stepped in. "Wal-Mart's values are not New York's values," proclaimed Stuart Appelbaum, president...