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Captive animals have acted violently before. In 2006 an orca (a.k.a. killer whale) at SeaWorld in San Diego attacked its trainer, who survived. That summer an elephant killed its handler at the Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee. In 2004 a gorilla at the Dallas Zoo went on a rampage, injuring four people. A white tiger critically hurt illusionist Roy Horn, half of the performing duo Siegfried & Roy, at the Mirage Hotel-Casino in Las Vegas in 2003. More recently, in February 2007, a jaguar at the Denver Zoo killed a keeper. Despite these, among other dramatic attacks, some people wonder...
...they get Clemens? The Mitchell investigators interviewed his trainer, Brian McNamee, who told them that he injected Clemens in the buttocks with steroids four times over a several week period in 1998, when Clemens was playing for the Toronto Blue Jays. (He won the Cy Young award that year). Also, according to McNamee, he injected Clemens during the 2000 and 2001 seasons, when he played for the Yankees and won another Cy Young...
...providing anabolic steroids and human growth hormone to dozens of players and their associates. In exchange for what presumably will be a lighter sentence - he faces up to 25 years - Radomski agreed to cooperate with Mitchell's investigation. The Radomski probe also connected Mitchell's team to Clemens' trainer, McNamee. Cohen notes that it's certainly "unusual" for a private actor like Major League Baseball to operate in a law enforcement realm. "It's weird," says Rick Karcher, a professor at the Florida Coastal School of Law. "Why would the state have incentive to do that? 'Yeah, we'll give...
...there may be a significant difference in their ability to recover from the weekend's bloodshed. YWAM, perhaps the biggest trainer and sponsor of overseas missionaries in the world, is decentralized (the Arvada center was something of a branch office) and robustly healthy. On the other hand, New Life is centralized, campus-oriented, and has already been staggered by the resignation of Haggard...
...billion? If it goes public sometime next year, as is widely expected, potential investors need to ask, "How big can Facebook grow?" says Internet analyst Bob Peck of Bear Stearns, who pegged Facebook's value at $6 billion in August. "You want to buy low expectations," says David Trainer, president of the business-valuation firm New Constructs. Google went public amid widespread skepticism, but Facebook has been anointed by its boosters as the next Google, despite MySpace's bigger audience and deeper pockets. As is always the case with the Web, some investors are going to make epic amounts...