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...unlikely success that says a lot about the appeal of minor-league hockey and the unique civic character of Lafayette, the self-proclaimed capital of French Louisiana. Simmering amid bayous and mossy oaks in the heart of Cajun country, Lafayette (pop. 112,000) is the league's fourth smallest market--and hasn't seen snow or natural ice since 1988. Not surprisingly, two lesser hockey leagues considered Lafayette too risky. Says Jady Regard, the Gators' general manager and a Louisiana native: "Hockey has no business working down here...
...Fourth, I'll take watching Pedro pitch over watching a bunch of drunkards yell at John Rocker sitting in the dugout any day of the week...
...witch hunts." The Dow Jones industrial average is expected to hit a record high of 30,000 within the next month. Investors were particularly exuberant this week after the announcement that the bug in Windows 2004, in which the newly-functional Internet refrigerator plug-in caused widespread failures during Fourth of July weekend last year, will be fixed in the new version...
DIED. ADAM PETTY, 19, fourth-generation member of the most celebrated family in stock-car racing; from head injuries sustained after crashing on a practice run at New Hampshire International Speedway; in Loudon...
...FOURTH The Web. Ford, GM and DaimlerChrysler announce a rare hookup. They will link all their tens of thousands of suppliers into a single, Internet-based network. This entity will encompass $250 billion annually of suppliers' products (and perhaps an additional $500 billion of those suppliers' suppliers' products). In short, every penny of waste will be wrung from the mammoth procurement system. The order cycle will speed up dramatically. Medibuy aims for the same hat trick in medical supplies, DigitalThink in training, CarStation in the auto-body-shop world. This is the white-hot world of B2B (business to business...