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...much easier concept to pin down if all major leaguers were 6’7 and carved out of stone—but this is not the case. To be completely honest, most of these players truly look like regular guys, with five fingers a hand, five toes a foot (except for Antonio Alfonseca of the Texas Rangers, who was born with twelve toes and twelve fingers). Of course there are some exceptions to the rule (see a chemically altered Barry Bonds...

Author: By Frank Herrmann | Title: BALLPARK FRANK: Looking for Big League Answer | 4/5/2006 | See Source »

From the moment you set foot in the boomtowns of the Rio Grande Valley, you sense you are watching a gold rush, headlong and free spirited and corrupt and ingenious. Stand on a corner some morning in Laredo, Texas, and watch the first of 8,000 trucks a day hauling the global economy north and south, 18-wheelers full of bulldozer claws and baby cribs, all passing through a town that once didn't bother to pave the streets. Now it can't pour concrete fast enough. The banks are open 7 to 7, seven days a week; the pager...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: La Nueva Frontera: A Whole New World | 4/4/2006 | See Source »

...year would no longer have to contribute to the cost of their children’s tuition, room, and board. In addition, parents with annual incomes between $40,000 and $60,000 would see substantial cuts in their contributions to tuition. But undergraduates still had to foot a fraction of their tuition costs through paid work or student loans. The school’s policy on student contributions is now set to change. Under Harvard’s old guidelines, students on financial aid had to fulfill a “self-help” obligation?...

Author: By Daniel J. T. Schuker, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Ups Financial Aid | 4/3/2006 | See Source »

...this is a huge asset for the country as it moves its economy forward.”Summers spent Monday, March 27, the final day of his trip, in Dubai, where a Harvard Medical School program is collaborating with the local government to construct a 350,000-square-foot medical research facility.The emirate occupied the center of national security debates in the United States after a company based there announced plans to take over management of six major U.S. ports. The firm later said it would turn over operation of the ports to a U.S. entity.At a meeting hosted...

Author: By Nicholas M. Ciarelli, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Summers Calls for International Fund | 4/3/2006 | See Source »

...adds that the cdu needs to shoulder more of the burden of introducing controversial policies. One reason the spd has been losing support, he says, is that Merkel has kept her distance from such measures, leaving them to spd Cabinet members instead. "The Chancellor should put her foot down for painful reforms," says Thierse. Maybe, but judging by her performance so far, that's just not her style. Merkel appears to prefer working behind the scenes to basking in the limelight. She has brought a collegial atmosphere to the Chancellery that is proving wildly popular. "Suddenly a woman in black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Land of Smiles | 4/1/2006 | See Source »

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