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  • Brooklyn Dodgers live on in Scully: Radio announcer makes rare trip east for NLCS

    10/20/2009 12:05:03 PM PDT · by EveningStar · 12 replies · 1,038+ views
    SportsNet New York ^ | October 19, 2009 | Howard Megdal
    As fans of the Yankees have had much to enjoy this October -- from the Alex Rodriguez resurgence to the first classic games at the new Yankee Stadium -- it has been a difficult month for fans of the Mets. Sure, the break from seeing one Met after another fall to the ground in pain has been welcome. But what pleasure can a National League New York fan get watching the Mets' primary in-division rival head inexorably toward a battle with the team's primary in-city rival? The answer is a simple one: the broadcasting of Dodgers announcer Vin Scully. With...
  • Bats and balls: Bigger testes mean smaller brains

    12/09/2005 7:01:03 AM PST · by billorites · 40 replies · 1,199+ views
    Economist.com ^ | December 8, 2005
    MEN are often accused by women of, to put it bluntly, having their brains in their balls. A joke, of course. But perhaps not as much of one as people might like to think. For a study of bats carried out by Scott Pitnick, of Syracuse University in New York State, and his colleagues, suggests that there really is a trade-off between the two organs. With about 1,000 species, bats are the second-largest group of mammals (rodents are top), so there is plenty of material for interspecies studies. Dr Pitnick's project, published in this week's Proceedings of the Royal Society,...
  • Beach family celebrates happy ending to pilot's ordeal

    04/04/2003 7:00:08 AM PST · by COBOL2Java · 5 replies · 520+ views
    The Virginian-Pilot ^ | 4 April 2003 | KATE WILTROUT
    Elizabeth Vincelette of Virginia Beach, shown with 4-year-old Annie, says a guardian angel must have been watching over her husband this week.Photo by Genevieve Ross / The Virginian-Pilot.VIRGINIA BEACH -- For her fourth birthday Tuesday, Annie Vincelette got a Rapunzel costume and a copy of the movie "Sleeping Beauty." Her best present, though, was a fairy-tale ending to her father's brush with death that day, 20,000 feet above the Iraqi desert. Lt. Chad Vincelette, 32, a Virginia Beach native and Navy F-14 fighter pilot, was heading back to the carrier Kitty Hawk after a bombing run when a mechanical failure...