Word: cuttingly
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...question with Matsuzaka is whether he'll endure. Baseball managers are notorious in Japan for overworking their pitchers, and the list of hurlers whose careers were cut short by blown-out arms is long. In the U.S., a starting pitcher typically throws between 100 and 140 pitches a game. In Japan, 200-pitch games are not unheard of. The wear-and-tear on Matsuzaka's arm from his torrid schedule as a high-schooler might well come back to haunt him. "I worry about his future because he throws a lot compared to American pitchers and even other Japanese pitchers...
...Twenty other athletes have also been cut from the Olympic team, although it is unclear whether they have withdrawn due to positive drug tests or because they failed to meet national athletic qualifications. "This is a warning to all athletes who wish to come to the games with drugs in their system--stay at home," I.O.C. vice president Anita DeFrantz said after the news broke. "Do not come...if you are not coming clean...
...legally inspired window-dressing that seems both illogical and unlikely - would help protect the company from record companies' wrath. They were wrong. And now, as the music industry learns of Universal's hefty win, MP3 faces another round of jaw-dropping fines - while the site managed to cut deals with several record companies to stanch any legal action, only half of the music featured on MP3 is covered under those agreements...
...Tribeca neighborhood of New York City found itself in a quandary. "The school was small, the parent body was ambitious, and we didn't have any money," recalls Debrah Pearson Feinn, whose daughter Lily was a second-grader at the time. The arts budget had been cut, and in this neighborhood, thick with artists, a school without art was hardly a school at all. Brainstorming at a back-to-school party, parents came up with the solution: since the area was gaining a reputation not only as an artists' colony but also as a dining destination, P.S. 190 parents joined...
CHEERS! A medication used to quell nausea in cancer patients may reduce an alcoholic's cravings. Research shows that after three months on the drug ondansetron, drinkers cut their booze intake from an average of eight glasses a day to just two. Caveat: on dansetron works only in those who became alcoholics before age 25--about 3.5 million people--probably because young drinkers tend to have a specific biological predisposition to the disease...