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- Players in the NBA (ESPN)
Provides profiles of players in the National Basketball Association. Allows searches by name, team, or conference.
- Cuban Missile Crisis - Key Players (ThinkQuest 11046)
Provides profiles of key players in the Cuban missile crisis, including Nikita Khrushchev, Anatoly Dobrynin, Fidel Castro, John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, McGeorge Bundy, Robert McNamara, Dean Rusk, Maxwell Taylor, Theodore Sorensen, George Ball, Douglas Dillon, Paul Nitze, and Adlai Stevenson. 8-02
- -08-25-05 Study: MP3 Players Dangerous for Ears (CBS News)
"Since damage to hearing caused by high volume is determined by its duration, continuous listening to an MP3 player, even at a seemingly reasonable level, can damage the delicate hair cells in the inner ear that transmit sound impulses to the brain."
"Studies have shown that people exposed to 85 decibels for eight hours tend to develop hearing loss," Brian Fligor, ScD, of Children's Hospital in Boston, tells WebMD. He found that all the CD players he examined produced sound levels well in excess of 85 decibels."
"Every time you increase a sound level by three decibels, listening for half as long will produce the same amount of hearing loss. The kid who cuts my grass uses an iPod. The lawn mower noise is about 80 to 85 decibels. If he likes listening to his iPod 20 decibels above that, he's in the range of 100-105 decibels. At that sound level he shouldn't listen for more than eight to 15 minutes." 8-05
- Blu-Ray Players (Blu-Ray.com)
Describes the current players available. 06-06
- Three Softball Players to Be Remembered (CNN News)
"Neufeld, a 21-year-old senior psychology major from Brandon, Manitoba, was a key component to a team that had reached the NAIA national championship tournament for three consecutive years, Ternes said." 11-09
- Table Tennis - Rating System (USATT)
Describes the USA rating system for table tennis players.
- Davis, Miles (JazzOne Online)
Provides a biography of one of the greatest jazz trumpet players. 1-01
- Venus and Serena Williams (CNN News)
Provides a short biography of the two top players in women's tennis. They are the first sisters to be ranked first and second in tennis history. No brothers have ever held the distinction. 7-02
- Cuban Missile Crisis (ThinkQuest 11046)
"The Cuban Missile Crisis was the closest the world ever came to nuclear war. The United States armed forces were at their highest state of readiness ever and Soviet field commanders in Cuba were prepared to use battlefield nuclear weapons to defend the island if it was invaded."
"If you want to know everything about the Crisis, however, go to the Crisis Center where the tension begins. The site is also filled with tons of other goodies including the Recon Room, dossiers on the Major Players, and a Situation Room. Before leaving the site be sure to stop by the Debriefing Room to post your thoughts and questions on the message board and take a quiz to test your knowledge on the events of October 1962." 8-02
- 04-30-03 Reactions to New Middle East Roadmap (BBC News)
"The UN, US, Russia and the EU have finally presented their plan for peace...to Palestinian and Israeli leaders."
"BBC News Online looks at the reaction to the 'roadmap' from key players in the conflict." 4-03
- Electrified Clothes (CNN News)
"A new generation of 'soft' electrical devices has been made possible by a fabric with built-in touch sensor technology."
"The innovative material, known as ElekTex, could be used to incorporate phones or music players into clothes, remote controls into sofas, or light switches into walls or carpets." 3-05
- Recycling Technology (CNN News)
'Tons of computers, monitors, televisions and other electronic gizmos that contain hazardous chemicals, or "e-waste,' may be poisoning people and ground water. Activists say the nation's biggest environmental problem may be the smallest devices, and this week they're launching campaigns to increase awareness about recycling cell phones, music players, handheld gaming consoles and other electronics."
"Frequently, smaller portable gadgets have batteries that are prohibitively expensive to replace. So consumers in affluent countries simply toss them in the trash."
"Environmentalists are particularly bothered by the recycling and reuse policies of cell phone manufacturers and distributors and of Apple Computer Inc., maker of the iPod digital music player."
"The biggest offenders are cell phones, said Dinn, because they pose a hazardous "double whammy" to the environment. 04-05
- The Big Five (MSNBC News)
"The 'Big Five' have never been better."
"Golf's greatest active players — Tiger Woods, Vijay Singh, Ernie Els, Phil Mickelson and Retief Goosen — are dominating the sport."
"The Big Five have fared well so far in 2005, combining for 12 wins worldwide and in their 63 tournaments through the Colonial have missed just four cuts (Singh at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, which was won by Mickelson, and the Memorial, while Woods and Goosen didn't play the weekend at the Byron Nelson)."
- -08-01-05 Palmeiro Violates Public Trust (MSNBC News)
"All his well-known civic and charitable good deeds, his reputation as a clean player, were shoved into the pot to counterbalance the charge, made by Jose Canseco, that Canseco had injected Palmeiro with steroids on many occasions when they were teammates. Canseco wrote the accusation in a book. Then he swore to it before Congress. And Palmeiro denied it utterly, sitting just a few feet from Canseco."
"Of all the players in baseball, the least likely man to be caught cheating with steroids this season would be Palmeiro, right? Even if he had used them every day of his career, he would stop now, because anyone in their right mind would cease and desist."
"Yet, in one of the most unexpected announcements ever made in baseball, Palmeiro has been caught, suspended and has actually admitted to using steroids this season. Palmeiro simply claims that he has no idea how they got in his body." 8-05
- -09-04-05 Senate Report: U.S. Fostered Illegal "Kickbacks" to Iraq for Oil (BBC News)
"The US turned a blind eye to the former Iraq regime's $8bn trade in smuggled oil, a new US Senate report says."
"The report says the US was well aware of both the smuggling and the kickbacks Iraq solicited from players in the UN's oil-for-food programme."
"The US was not only aware of Iraqi oil sales which violated UN sanctions and provided the bulk of the illicit money Saddam Hussein obtained from circumventing UN sanctions," the report said.
" 'On occasion, the US actually facilitated the illicit oil sales.' " 9-05
- -11-09-05 Top Footballer Criticizes French Government (Guardian Unlimited)
"One of France's top football players has criticised the government's handling of the riots in major cities and urged authorities to address the problems fuelling the disaffection of youths in the suburbs."
"Defender Lilian Thuram, the most capped player in the French national squad, said the violence was the fruit of the economic and social deprivation in the banlieues - suburbs where the majority of the population are descended from Arab and African immigrants and unemployment rates often run as high as 40%." 11-05
- How Broadway Musicals Are Made (Musicals101.com)
Discusses the elements of a musical including The Score, The Book, Key Players: Production Team, Key Players: Creative Team, How to Write a Musical, and Getting Your Musical Produced. 12-05
- Biographies of Tennis Greats (Sporting-Heroes.net)
Provides profiles of the most accomplished tennis players. 01-06
- Editorial: How Apple May Save Blockbuster Video (PBC.org - Cringely)
"Poor Blockbuster Video hasn't made a profit in years, the stock is down about 90 percent from its 2002 high, NetFlix is cleaning its clock, and nobody - I mean NOBODY - thinks the future looks in any way rosy for this pioneering video rental chain. Steve Jobs to the rescue? Maybe."
"Apple's Blockbuster product strategy is simple. Start with a new iPod that has video- and audio-out capability. This iPod -- which will be just as good at playing songs as any iPod that preceded it - will be more than just a video storage device. It will be a video player. No make that plural - players - a whole family of video-out iPods, some with flash storage and others with little disk drives."
"Take your Video-out iPod to Blockbuster, drop it in a kiosk dock then download from the local xServe your choice of 50,000 movies. You can rent the movie or buy it and you can even choose the resolution, which may or may not affect the final price. Take the iPod home, drop it in the dock attached to your TV and watch the movie. H.264 decoding takes place in the iPod in hardware." 03-06
- -04-08-07 Military Commanders: More Time Needed to Determine Success (MSNBC News)
"While Washington appears headed toward a political endgame on Iraq, with the White House and Congress sparring over benchmarks and pullout dates, the war on the ground is at an ebb tide. All sides -- including U.S. military strategists and Iraqi sectarian leaders and insurgents, as well as regional players such as Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia and Turkey -- are waiting to see whether the new U.S. approach to make the Iraqi capital safer will work. Soldiers on the ground tend to see the Washington debate as irrelevant, and the perspective of many politicians in Washington is that the military schedule is simply too slow." 04-07
- Study: NBA Referees Biased (CBS News)
"An academic study of NBA officiating found that white referees called fouls at a greater rate against black players than against white players, The New York Times reported in Wednesday's editions."
"The NBA strongly criticized the study, which was based on information from publicly available box scores, which show only the referees' names and contain no information about which official made a call." 05-07
- The Internal Stress of Golf (New York Times)
"On the eve of the United States Open at Oakmont Country Club, considered by many the most difficult course to be host to golf’s national championship, players talked about the mental stresses of a game in which physical execution is a fraction of the chore and every swing is dependent on the individual golfer."
- MSN's List of Top Technology Products (MSNBC News)
Provides overviews of desktops, laptops, cameras, media players, cells phones, and more. 06-07
- Rodriguez, Alex (A-Rod) (Wikipedia.org)
"Alexander Enmanuel 'Alex' Rodriguez (born July 27, 1975, in New York, New York), commonly nicknamed A-Rod, is a Dominican-American baseball infielder. He is the starting third baseman for the New York Yankees, having played shortstop for the Texas Rangers and Seattle Mariners."
"Since 1996 (his first full season) through 2006 he leads the major leagues in home runs (HR), runs scored, runs batted in (RBI), total bases and extra-base hits. Of all players in baseball history at age 30, he is first all-time in both HR and runs scored, 2nd in total bases and extra base hits, 3rd in RBI, and 4th in hits. In his career to that point, Rodriguez had more HR, more RBI, more runs scored, and more base hits than all-time leaders Hank Aaron (HR and RBI), Rickey Henderson (runs scored), and Pete Rose (hits) did prior to their 30th birthdays. He also shares the MLB record (and holds the AL record) for most home runs in the month of April, hitting 14 in 2007."
"He has often been cited as the best all-around player currently in baseball." 07-07
- -07-07-07 Federer Wins Wimbledon (New York Times)
"Federer beat Rafael Nadal, his 21-year-old Spanish rival, in five sets Sunday, 7-6 (7), 4-6, 7-6 (3), 2-6, 6-2, joining Borg as the only men’s players in the last 100 years to win Wimbledon five times in a row." 07-07
- -10-09-07 Nobel Prizes for Physics Announced (CBS News)
"France's Albert Fert and German Peter Gruenberg won the 2007 Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for their discovery of giant magnetoresistance, a process used by billions [sic] of people on their computers and digital music players."
"In 1988 Fert and Gruenberg each independently discovered a totally new physical effect, GMR. In this effect, very weak changes in magnetism generate larger changes in electrical resistance. This is how information stored magnetically on a hard disk can be converted to electrical signals that the computer reads." 10-07
- 10-20-07 Privatizing Our Roads (Time.com)
"For states and cities looking to upgrade or replace aging infrastructure, partnering with private players is the biggest idea to come along since the interstate highway system started ribboning the country with asphalt in the 1950s. The appeal: governments can stop worrying about roads, bridges and tunnels, and companies get lucrative leases that allow them to collect money from drivers for generations. The craze is being driven by investors who crave the steady cash flow of decades' worth of tolls. There are 71 projects worth $104 billion being considered for private development by state and local governments, according to the publication Public Works Financing." 10-07
- How Tiger Woods Wins a Major (New York Times)
"Golf's four major tournaments offer competitors a more difficult test than the rest of the stops on tour. But while most players succumb to the tougher courses and heightened nerves, Tiger Woods shows less of a decline, especially in categories like greens in regulation and scrambling."
- -07-14-08 Former Allies in Afghanistan Now Attack Americans (U.S. News)
"Indeed, along with a smattering of Afghan tribal groups, Pakistani extremists, and drug kingpins, two of the most dangerous players are violent Afghan Islamists named Gulbuddin Hekmatyar and Jalaluddin Haqqani, according to U.S. officials. In recent weeks, Hekmatyar has called upon Pakistani militants to attack U.S. targets, while the Haqqani network is blamed for three large vehicle bombings, along with the attempted assassination of Karzai in April." 07-08
- -12-29-08 Editorial: A Failure of Oversight and Madoff (Truthout.org)
"I think we've had a collapse of the markets caused by three different factors. The three factors all point to the failure of regulatory entities to carry out their missions. One area is the liquidity and capitalization of the major banks, which SEC was supposed to keep an eye on. We've had one bank fail after another. When you look at the scope of those failures, and the magnitude of those failures, you have to ask yourself, how could anybody miss the red flags that these banks were in deep trouble."
"The second factor is market manipulation and insider trading. It has been a colossal failure by the SEC. Its failure to investigate the big players gave them a sense they were invulnerable. So, they just got bolder."
"The SEC seemed to be doing its best job on investment fraud, but some of the fraud that has surfaced before Madoff raised some questions about the SEC. Madoff is on a new scale." 12-08
- -01-06-09 Five Ways to Recharge Without Plugging In (U.S. News)
"So maybe we need a little magic: electricity that's delivered without wall plugs. A variety of new systems will recharge our cellphones, MP3 players and digital cameras without having to cable them into the grid. In fact, by year's end there should be at least five ways that we can detach ourselves from the outlet:" 02-09
- -03-26-09 Treasury Calls for Overhaul of Regulations (New York Times)
"The Obama administration on Thursday detailed its wide-ranging plan to overhaul financial regulation by subjecting hedge funds and traders of exotic financial instruments, now among the biggest and most freewheeling players on Wall Street, to potentially strict new government supervision." 03-09
- Study: Kids Returning to Sports Too Soon After Concussion (Time.com)
"Too many kids are returning to the playing field too soon after a concussion. How many? According to an alarming new study, from 2005 to 2008, 41% of concussed athletes in 100 high schools across the U.S. returned to play too soon, under guidelines set out by the American Academy of Neurology. The 11-year-old guidelines say, for example, that if an athlete's concussion symptoms, such as dizziness or nausea, last longer than 15 minutes, he should be benched until he's been symptom-free for a week. The most startling data point--uncovered by the same researchers who in 2007 brought to light the fact that girls have a higher incidence of concussion than boys--is that 16% of high school football players who lost consciousness during a concussion returned to the field the same day." 03-09
- Sports Concussions a Growing Concern (HealthLink)
"Many other sports and recreational activities, including wrestling, hockey, soccer (from head collisions), snowboarding and in-line skating, can also result in concussions. Even whiplash can cause a concussion. Altogether, about 300,000 traumatic brain injuries occur each year in sports and recreation in the United States."
"Several National Football League players (notably, quarterbacks Troy Aikman and Steve Young) retired after suffering several concussions during their careers. Multiple concussions suffered over a period of months or years increases the risk of permanent brain damage and post-concussion syndrome, in which neurological or cognitive problems become chronic. Even mild concussions occurring within hours, days or weeks of each other can result in 'second impact syndrome,' which can be fatal. As a result, coaches and trainers are showing an increased sensitivity to the effects of concussions on their players." 03-09
- The "Perfect" Tennis Player (NBC News)
Tracy Austin assesses the best players in history to say which she thinks had the best components. "Countless names have been exchanged in debating the identity of the greatest tennis player of all time: Federer, Sampras, Laver, Borg, Agassi, Nadal or Tilden to name a few. Such provocative discussions always seem to end with the realization that it's difficult to factor in different eras, equipment evolution and competitive environments. The bottom line is that each of the top players has had weaknesses that could be exploited in addition to their strengths." 06-09
- -08-28-09 Justice Department and CIA at Odds (New York Times)
"With the appointment of a prosecutor to investigate detainee abuses, long-simmering conflicts between the Central Intelligence Agency and the Justice Department burst into plain view this week, threatening relations between two critical players on President Obama’s national security team." 08-09
- Hockey into their 80's (CNN News)
"At age 80, Lewis' team now is the the Quincy Bald Eagles, a group of senior players who meet three times a week at a local ice arena outside Boston, Massachusetts." 06-09
- Bridge Paradoxes (Pavlicek)
"The subject of probability in bridge can be confusing to those who are not mathematicians. The purpose of this study is to clear up a few of the misconceptions or paradoxes that continue to confuse bridge players." 6-05
- Bridge - A History and Scoring (Wikipedia.org)
"Contract bridge, usually known simply as Bridge, is a trick-taking card game for four players who form two partnerships, or 'sides'. The partners on each side sit opposite one another. Game play is in two phases: bidding and playing." 6-05
- Sports and Exercise After 40 (MSNBC News)
"Competitive sports no longer are reserved for the young, and there are plenty of geezers who still have game. And we're not talking mall walking, shuffleboard and golf. A recent issue of GeezerJock magazine, devoted to competitive athletics for people over 40, had articles on the Senior Olympic Hockey Championships, 50-year-old rugby players and the Ironman Triathlon." 11-05
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