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...Despite the carping, don't expect a slimmed-down preseason - and the reason is simple, money. "Spring training is lucrative for clubs, lucrative for the cities that host them, and will continue to be popular," says Maury Brown, editor of bizofbaseball.com, a site that tracks the economics of the game. According to a recent study commissioned by the Cactus League, which hosts 12 teams in Arizona, spring training will add $200 million to the state's economy...
...orders. The official Chinese media repeatedly feature stories on how local administrators ignore orders from Beijing on everything from controlling public spending and cracking down on corruption to protecting the environment. "Mining is the perfect case study of central-government relations with local government in China," says Arthur Kroeber, editor of the China Economic Quarterly. "The clash is between the central government's desires and the local government's pressing economic needs, and in 99 cases out of 100, local government wins...
Then there is what Publishers Weekly senior religion editor Lynn Garrett calls the Da Vinci Code effect. "Speculative histories were out there before Dan Brown wrote," says Garrett. "But they didn't make the best-seller lists and their authors didn't go on The Daily Show." Or receive a million-dollar paycheck, as was rumored in a recent case...
...them to the negative effects of breast cancer surgery that he has theorized. Retsky’s controversial hypothesis linking breast cancer relapses to surgery caused a moderate stir in the scientific community at the time of its publication in the International Journal of Surgery, drawing letters to the editor which ultimately put Retsky on his present course, One of the letters, from a lawyer in Tennessee, reported a common belief among the African-American community that tumors should be left alone lest surgery “provoke” them. The correspondence sparked Retsky’s interest...
...direction, if the shift of course websites to my.harvard this year is any indication. One potential solution is a student-made portal—an effort to create one is being spearheaded by former UC presidential candidate Thomas D. Hadfield ’08, who is also a Crimson editor. We are far more optimistic that students will be able to understand fellow students’ needs. Some things on our wish-list of features, however, require official University support. Students on their own could not, for instance, produce a Web site with GPS maps of shuttle locations...