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CINCINNATI -- Edinson Volquez wanted to quit. When the Texas Rangers staff pulled him aside that March 2007 day in spring training and told him that he -- the former No. 1 ranked prospect in the organization, possessor of a gilded changeup, a 98-mph fastball, and all of 14 major league starts -- would find himself not just in the minors, but three levels and 1,400 miles away from Arlington in Single A Bakersfield.
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake shook a rural part of northern California on Tuesday evening, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
A school bus in Jefferson County, Missouri, is caught in flooding.
Producers will rush out a video of the alleged call girl in the N.Y. governor's downfall
The best dog team anyone ever hitched to a sled was the one Susan Butcher stood behind in the 1985 Iditarod, the 1,100-mile race across Alaska from Anchorage to Nome. So says Butcher, who knows a bit about sled dogs. ''Those guys were athletes,'' she recalls with a wistful shake of her head, ''and it all just came together. No one was going to beat them or come close to beating them.''
Maybe it's partly the post-holiday blahs, but my mailbox these days is stuffed with laments from people who don't like what they're doing for a living, but aren't sure what they would rather do instead.
From "Gladiator" to "The Lion King", "Pirates of the Caribbean" to "The Simpsons," film composer Hans Zimmer's versatile and imaginative scores have added aural color, light and shade to the on-screen action.
Dear FSB: I'd love to start a small business in my hometown, but how do I analyze the market? What's an effective strategy for identifying a need in a town of 30,000? --Sidra Louis Miller, Edwardsville, Ill.
NANCY JARECKI MET BETTY IN A Roman hair salon. She and her husband, Andrew, the founder of Moviefone, had moved to Italy to enjoy the good life after selling the company in 2001. A year later, gett...
One CNN.com user described paparazzi as "dastardly and despicable" human beings. Another said stars can't have it "both ways," making millions and complaining about their lifestyles.
For the second time in three days, a strong earthquake rumbled Thursday night off the coast of northern California, about 300 miles northwest of San Francisco, according to the U.S. Geological Survey Web site.
On January 29, 1981, presidential press secretary Jim Brady called to tell me that on the following Monday, I would have the first one-on-one Oval Office interview granted to any magazine -- Inside Sports -- with the recently inaugurated Ronald Reagan.
One day you're scrubbing in the shower or driving in your car--whatever you do to kill time between episodes of The Anna Nicole Show--and suddenly a notion takes shape in your brain. Before you kno...
FSB: The Paper Chaseupdated: Tue Oct 01 2002 00:01:00
Al Neuharth's first eureka moment coincided with his birth--in Eureka, S.D., in 1924--and he's had newsprint in his blood from the beginning. As a boy he delivered copies of the local Alpena Journa...
Why is sharing knowledge hard? Why do ideas sit off in one corner of a company, as inert as argon, when they could bubble and fizz and precipitate gold somewhere else? The question comes up all the...
Earlier this month, analysts gave Xerox CEO Rick Thoman till the fourth quarter to save his job following a dismal inaugural year. It turns out he had only a couple of weeks.
I've always loved robots. An impressionable 9-year-old when The Day the Earth Stood Still hit the local movie theater, I practiced saying "Klaatu barada nikto" to keep my cigar-box-and-Erector-set ...
When we wrote about Warner Lambert (WLA; NYSE, $138.75; 1.1% yield) in this column in April ("Ewe and Your Money: How to Profit from Discoveries"), analysts projected that the stock would hit $120 ...
What manner of detritus is crammed inside your company suggestion box? Scrawled anonymous expletives? Gum wrappers? Or does it just fill up with dust balls until its annual spring cleaning? Not at ...
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EUREKA, CALIFORNIA -- A cellist quit the Eureka Symphony Orchestra rather than perform a work she said encourages the killing of wolves: Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf. Symphony officials said the....
If you came to this department hoping to get away from lists, tough luck (though ours -- over there on the right -- isn't nearly as long as the FORTUNE 500). Faithful readers of Books & Ideas may r...
IS AMERICA investing enough in research and development, a cornerstone of future economic success? Total U.S. outlays for government and civilian R&D peaked at $157 billion in 1989 and have since s...
Eureka, California, is the heartburn capital of the U.S.A. So says Warner- Lambert, maker of Rolaids. The company studied 197 cities and found that antacid munchers among the 25,000 residents of Eu...
Fortune: PRODUCTS TO WATCHupdated: Mon Apr 09 1990 00:01:00
CREATIVITY TOOLS Out of ideas? Try one of the increasingly popular creativity tools. ''Creativity,'' a $125 cassette-and-workbook course from Global Creativity Corp. and SyberVision, features real-...
For companies that develop new agricultural technologies, it's a season of drought: the doleful state of the farm economy worldwide has taken the near- term commercial luster off scores of promisin...
Wilson thinks its move to computer- aided design and engineering will advance sporting goods . . . Already the system, which cost close to $2 million and went into action last May, has paid dividen...
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