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...kids, the racket starts in the cradle. A squeaky toy held close to the ear--which is precisely where babies may put them--can reach 94 db. A toy xylophone can ring in at 92 db. And since babies' ear canals are so small, a sound that gets in them may knock around harder than it does in an adult's ears and do commensurately more damage. When these battered baby ears make it to high school they only suffer more abuse as kids start listening to music at full volume and going to dance clubs where wall-to-wall...
...human highlight reel or that he played in small markets. ARod--impossibly talented, good-looking, 6 ft. 3, multilingual, hyperambitious, Armani clad and polished to perfect Jordanesque corporate blandness--is missing the only attribute most loved by kids who buy posters: winning. And if you can't get a ring with George Steinbrenner trying to buy one for you, then all the political skill in the world isn't going to make you the king of baseball...
With all my other birthdays, I've been able to feel that I can change the age and that the age doesn't have to change me. But this one has the ring of mortality. So I hope it will teach me to use my time better...
Open Windows, Shut the Door After five years in the ring with Microsoft, E.U. competition regulators finally landed a punch against the software heavyweight last week. Brussels levied a record €497 million fine against Microsoft for anticompetitive practices, granting rivals access to information on its Windows operating system and ordering the firm to offer a second version stripped of its proprietary Media Player. Microsoft is appealing - a process that could take up to five years - but even if the new rules kick in as early as this summer, the firm will be allowed to sell the Media Player version...
...ring would be nice,” Williamson says. “I just want to be satisfied, I was not satisfied at the end of last year. I want to be crying from happiness, not crying from what we could’ve done or what we should’ve done. We’ve got one shot. Let us walk away happy...