MANCHESTER United's youth brigade, augmented by star names RyanGiggs, Kleberson and Cristiano Ronaldo, were knocked out of theCarling Cup 2-0 by First Division leaders West Brom.
Baggies boss Gary Megson admitted: "Obviously one or two big namesweren't there, but right through they are a quality team.
"United are in the Champions League and going for the Premiershipand I can understand them putting out the team they did.
"I thought we played …
Renowned Green Bay Packers coach Vince Lombardi once stated, "Some people try to find things in this game that don't exist, but football is only two things - blocking and tackling."
Success in investing, much like football, is not about completing the Hail Mary pass. Executing the seemingly minor tasks, like blocking and tackling, lead to victory.
Many investors seek strategies that can very quickly turn a pittance into a fortune. Others look for complicated schemes that they may not fully comprehend, hoping that someone else's genius will result in outsize profits. Over the long term, those people nearly always lose.
Nevertheless, money management firms have …
Dow Chemical says it has agreed to buy specialty chemicals maker Rohm and Haas for $78 per share, or more than $15 billion.
Based on the per-share purchase price and the roughly 196 million shares Rohm and Haas had outstanding as of April 22, the deal would be worth about $15.29 billion.
Dow Chemical Co. values the deal at $18.8 billion including debt.
The …
Los Angeles County officials have acknowledged for the first timethat a woman who died shortly after writhing in pain for nearly anhour on the waiting room floor of Martin Luther King Jr.-HarborMedical Center could have been saved if she had been properlytreated.
Edith Rodriguez was captured on security videotape as a janitormopped around her and a triage nurse dismissed her complaints in theearly morning of May 9, 2007. Her death helped precipitate theclosure of the hospital's emergency room and inpatient care afterfederal regulators determined that staffers had failed to deliver aminimum standard of care.
The 43-year-old woman's boyfriend, who had accompanied her …
PETER DODWELL Brave New Mind: A Thoughtful Inquiry into the Nature Of Mental Life New York: Oxford University Press, 2000, 262 pages (ISBN 0-19-508905-7, C$56.00, Hardcover)
Reviewed by LEENDERT P. MOS
The author poses the major question for cognitive science: "Can mental life be exhaustively studied as a purely natural phenomenon, or must we go beyond the mundane, the merely physical, to grasp its reality?" (p. viii). His answer is, that "absolutely no psychological consequence follows from a model couched in exclusively algorithmic, physical, or physiological terms, which is the way contemporary cognitive science proceeds" (p. 190).
Planned as a history of …
WANTAGH, N.Y. (AP) — After promising in typical Trumpian modesty to replace a restaurant at a landmark New York beach with "the finest dining and banquet facility anywhere in the world," Donald Trump seethes four years later that visitors still must pass what he calls "a rat-infested dump."
When he announced plans in 2006 for "Trump on the Ocean" at Jones Beach, designed by legendary urban planner Robert Moses, the real estate tycoon envisioned a facility with sweeping views of the Atlantic and beachfront dining for as many as 1,400.
What he didn't anticipate was persistent civic opposition, or skeins of bureaucratic red tape.
"The word I'd use is incomprehensible," …
Moving day at the U.S. Open went like this: Get your birdies and eagles early and keep the bogeys and bigger numbers to a minimum as Pebble Beach got more difficult.
Phil Mickelson didn't follow the plan. And very quickly Saturday, Lefty was falling out of contention.
Mickelson struggled on the opening nine and made the turn at 3 over for his round. He bogeyed his first two holes before an adventure at the ninth.
On the long 505-yard par 4 that hugs the Pacific coastline, Mickelson's double bogey left him at 2 over for the tournament. Mickelson drove into a fairway bunker, hit the lip with his second shot and saw his third nestle into a thatch of …
