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...inherently unfair that Kansas City, Minnesota, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh, Montreal, Philadelphia, and San Diego will never win under the current format of major league baseball. You can probably add Oakland, the White Sox and Cincinnati to that list despite their remarkable recent success (which only went...
...those surveyed described their sibling relationships as "supportive," and only 11% were "hostile," with the rest falling somewhere in between. "I understand that there is sibling rivalry because I have two brothers and a sister," says Robert Stewart, chairman of the psychology department at Michigan's Oakland University. "But if something came up, and I needed to be on the other side of the country because one of them called, I'd go. There's not a whole lot of people in the world I'd do that for." Most people think of "rivalry" and "siblings" as synonymous and negative...
...Mets, Dodgers, Orioles, Braves, Red Sox and now the Rangers to spend them in oblivion. These smaller markets cannot permit themselves to be a de facto minor league operation for the big clubs, developing talent until they become available free agents. Yes, it's possible for a team like Oakland to compete, but GM Billy Beane has been nothing short of brilliant, and he has no room for error. How much will the pitchers he's devloped like Barry Zito be worth on the open market? Denny Neagle just got $10 million per year. Hell, Darren Dreifort...
CHILDHOOD TRAUMAS New research from the University of California, San Francisco, and Children's Hospital Oakland has found that post-traumatic stress syndrome affects children as young as age 7 more often than previously believed and for longer than parents think, even after minor accidents like bike crashes and falls. Postaccident, parents should be on the lookout for a change in grades, loss of concentration and increased tearfulness or jumpiness...
...opting for more enclosure as they mature. It didn't take long for Rob Frasca, CEO of Internet Venture Works, a firm based in Boston that builds Internet businesses with traditional companies, to make the change. When he started Galt Technologies in 1993 in an old warehouse in the Oakland district of Pittsburgh, Pa., Frasca wanted a "really cool" open design. "Within two months," he says, "all the employees had built their own makeshift barriers, using bookshelves, whiteboard, coatracks and Pier 1 folding screens. I quickly realized that while CEOs and marketing directors love the marketing ploy of high-tech...