Word: controller
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...curve. He went straight from high school to the pros, a rarity in Japan, and in his initial season he won 16 games. This year, he has 12 wins?the most victories in the Pacific League?and only five losses, though he has struggled with his control. "I tinkered with my form early in the season," he says. "But it's O.K. now." He has a big wind-up?holding the ball a full three seconds above his head?and a big kick. "He's the real thing," says Tuffy Rhodes, an ex-major leaguer now playing in Japan...
...surprisingly, though, that doesn't satisfy the swarm of trial lawyers and consumer advocates buzzing about--and therein lies the companies' real problem. No matter how well they handle the basic mechanics of the recall, the wheels are coming off their efforts at damage control...
...increase. Whites came in next at 29%, and African Americans were last at 26%. "If that were to happen in a disease like tuberculosis, syphilis or AIDS, I think there would be a public outcry, and understandably," says Dr. Frank Vinicor, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's diabetes division and one of the authors of the study. "These trends are very disturbing...
Under new guidelines issued last week by the National Institutes of Health, government-funded scientists will be allowed to use early-stage embryos left over from in-vitro fertilizations in their attempts to understand and control how stem cells turn into specific kinds of tissues--so long as they are harvested by private firms. With government money finally behind it, says pioneering stem-cell researcher John Gearhart of Johns Hopkins University, "the work will move forward rapidly...
...require that states test children every year from third through eighth grades or lose 5% of their federal aid. If a school turns in failing grades three years in a row, its students would receive federal vouchers for tuition at parochial or other private schools. But each state would control the content of its exams...