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Robinson has no use for modern strategy either. In a sport that touts the trendy Moneyball style of play, in which esoteric statistics guide decisions, Robinson doesn't know OPS (on-base percentage plus slugging, Moneyball's sacred stat) from UPS. "I don't like the computer," he says. "I go with instincts and gut feelings and heart." Entering last weekend, the Nats had won an NL-high 17 one-run games, in which a manager's chess moves have the most impact...
...same time, however, scientists have come to appreciate what can be gained from decoding other genomes, from modern chimps and ancient cave bears to microscopic bacteria and viruses. As the cost of sequencing each base pair has dropped, from $10 in 1990 to less than 9˘ in 2002 to 1/10 of 1˘ today, researchers are doing more all the time. Although 99% of the planet's genomes have yet to be decoded, researchers have identified hundreds of thousands if not millions of genes, dwarfing the paltry 24,000 or so we carry...
...little over 1%, unemployment is 3.7%, well below rates across all 25 E.U. states. And Switzerland 's GDP per capita trumps its near neighbors', according to the O.E.C.D. For firms operating in the country, that's a sign of "stability in the workforce," says Matt Jackson, a Washington-based international corporate location specialist with Deloitte. Foreign firms agree. Steve McCracken, CEO of Ohio-based global packaging firm O-I, last week slammed the "socialistic" barriers to businesses in parts of the E.U., two months after announcing plans to locate the firm's European base in Lausanne. But barriers...
...charged with a crime, has no lawyer and remains in detention at Guantánamo. But his case is already the subject of several probes in Washington. A year ago, a senior FBI counterterrorism official wrote the Pentagon complaining of abuses that FBI agents said they witnessed at the naval base. The agents reported seeing or hearing of "highly aggressive interrogation techniques." The letter singles out the treatment of al-Qahtani in September and October of 2002--before the log obtained by TIME begins--saying a dog was used "in an aggressive manner to intimidate Detainee #63." The FBI letter said...
...Pforzheimer resident. As the couple lived apart—Mr. Carling, 32, is now completing a medical residency at Yale—Ms. Perry spent almost every weekend of her college career commuting. “We talk once a day, not for long, but just to touch base,” she explains. “We always know when we are next going to see each other...