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...nation's economic doldrums are going to slow down the national pastime, there's not much evidence of it happening yet. This past season, baseball blasted a home run, scoring a record $6.5 billion in revenues. During the winter off-season, trade rumors and expensive free-agent signings have kept fans hooked. Struggling media outlets still saw fit to send some 370 journalists to Las Vegas to cover the sport's winter meetings, an annual hardball cattle call packed with rumor-hungry execs, scouts and assorted hangers-on, all looking for the next big deal...
...Baseball, of course, doesn't amount to much in the dead of winter, so the network's New Year's Day debut will consist of an hour-long studio show at 6 p.m., followed by the original telecast of Don Larsen's perfect game in the 1956 World Series. Before the season starts, the MLB Network will primarily feature sports news, original documentaries and spring-training reports for every team. The channel will broadcast World Baseball Classic games in March and 26 regular-season games during the year. The network's signature show is slated to be MLB Tonight...
...explosion of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines was the largest eruption in recent memory, and its effects on the atmosphere are still being measured. The 1883 eruption of Indonesia's Krakatoa led to a global cooling and the deadly winter of 1886-87 that wiped out the short-lived open-range cattle bonanza of Montana Territory. In 2000, Ken Wohletz, a scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, postulated that an even bigger Krakatoa eruption in 6th century A.D. may have sent a tall plume of vaporized seawater into the atmosphere, causing the formation of stratospheric ice clouds with superfine hydrovolcanic...
...between Los Angeles and Melbourne for $1,078. Book by Jan. 19, 2009, for high-season travel between Jan. 29 and April 30, 2009, or June 9 and Sept. 21, 2009. If you travel between May 1 and June 8, 2009, the start of the southern hemisphere's winter, fares drop about...
...World for Cheap. Expedia is having a winter sale, with hotel discounts of up to 50% off at properties around the world. A four-day trip to Cancun, including airfare and a room at the Gran Melia Resort, starts at just $666 per person. Airfare plus four nights at the W Hotel in New York City starts at $544 per person. Expedia has separate Web pages for people who prefer urban travel and those who like a sunny beach. Book before Feb. 11, 2009. (See 10 things to do in New York City...