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...been rumored to acquire—Sammy Sosa, Juan Gonzalez—for little more than Alfonso Soriano and various other Triple-A All-Stars? “ESPN is reporting that the deal between the Yankees and Heaven to put lefthander God Almighty in pinstripes has hit a snag, as the Yankees have been unwilling to include third-base prospect Drew Henson in the deal.” Sheesh...
...concentrating on terrorism itself. "There's a sequence to follow," says the European source. "You've got to take them one at a time." In its initial phases, the military plan hence concentrates on Afghanistan. Last week the preparation for presenting the final options to Bush hit a brief snag. On Thursday, Shelton reviewed the plans with Army General Tommy Franks, commander of Central Command, and with the commanders of the U.S. special forces. There was something in the plans that Shelton didn't like--"He wasn't comfortable with the targets," says a source--but by Friday the brass...
...Europe's most original architects, Santiago Calatrava, a Spanish-born engineer whose buildings and bridges are high-wire acts of structural and aesthetic daring. His centerpiece for the museum, in Milwaukee, Wis., is a tall sunscreen with wings that open and close. But tests on building material hit a snag, pushing back the screen's official May debut to Oct. 14. It's a thing of beauty, but will...
President Bush's decision to fund work on some 60-odd existing colonies of human stem cells, and only those colonies, hit a serious snag last week with the revelation that virtually all stem cells are cultivated using embryonic mouse tissue. The mouse cells provide the human ones with nutrients and growth factors crucial to their survival and proliferation. The problem: under FDA rules, mouse-fed stem cells given to treat human patients would be considered a "xenotransplant," or tissue from another species. Although hundreds of patients have received liver and fetal cells from pigs without any sign of foreign...
...best minds in comedy do their best work in the two or three years after college," Lewis said. "We want to snag him before he gets to L.A. and starts doing things with his own money...