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...anyone for the expansion of the phony war?the tiresome tactical games played before and between matches. "Players these days talk too much," says Geoff Lawson. "There's a perception that you've got to match the Australians for talk, to try to dominate psychologically ... it's just rubbish. Just go out and play cricket, will...
...this stage of his tenure?isn't the leader Mark Taylor was. A statesman as well as a winner, Taylor had the edge in imagination: he knew when to desist with the orthodox and try the unexpected, and he stepped in when one of his bowlers was sending down rubbish, regardless of the bowler's name. Richie Benaud was the master of appearing assured even when the plane was in a nosedive, a knack Ponting rarely displayed in England. What's not in doubt is that his players want him as captain. "I know he has a lot to offer...
...vast number of papers, some of which are mediocre and some of which are stellar, Nobel Prize-winning work—I will be happy.” And therein lies the problem. Without a peer review process to separate the revolutionary papers from the merely good from the rubbish, scientists will have no way of knowing which discoveries and experiments merit their time and interest. Instead, they will spend inordinate amounts of time wading through the quicksand of junk science to get to truly interesting work. Peer reviewers are chosen as peer reviewers for a reason—unlike...
...Everest, Noguchi noticed that the growing ranks of fellow mountaineers left piles of discarded climbing gear and trash?much of the rubbish bearing Chinese, Korean or Japanese labels. When a European climber noted in passing that "Japan is a developed country, but without any manners," Noguchi decided something had to be done. Returning to Everest in 2000, he climbed the mountain four times over the next four years with an international team that cleared nearly eight tons of waste from its slopes, including more than 400 discarded oxygen containers. Local Nepalese villagers didn't see the point of the project...
...knowhow to picka good stock, right? Read up on a company's products, listen to what the CEO has to say, figure out where the industry is headed. Well, that's rubbish and pure distraction, according to quants, a breed of computer-loving money managers, many of them ex-mathematicians and physicists, who are gaining a following among ordinary investors...