One thing that becomes abundantly clear in the postseason is which pitchers are trusted most by their managers. That’s why you see starters throwing on short rest, or bullpen relievers working multiple games in a row, or starters coming out of the bullpen when outs absolutely have to be recorded. MLB PLAYOFFS 2015: Best 50 players | Each team’s worst postseason memory It’s about trust. That’s why St. Louis manager Mike Matheny tabbed veteran John Lackey to start Game 4 of the NLDS for the Cardinals, with his team trailing in the series, 2-1....

Which made him eligible for one of the most audacious experiments in re- cent medical history–the AbioCor, the world’s first fully implantable, plastic-and-titanium, battery-powered replacement heart. In a seven-hour operation last Monday, Gray and his colleague Dr. Robert Dowling cut out most of the man’s diseased heart and stitched what remained to the cuffs of the mechanical one. They made the elaborate electronic connections for power, control and monitoring, and then watched as blood went coursing into the aorta and pulmonary artery....

Law-enforcement officials say Eyler is just trying to escape execution. They also fear that a deal would effectively reward a death-row inmate for committing multiple murders. To improve his credibility - and avoid a second death sentence - Eyler pleaded guilty last month to the 1982 killing of Steven Agan, a 23-year-old car-wash worker from Terre Haute, Ind. He also named an accomplice: 52-year-old Robert Little, a former professor at Indiana State University....

Two summers later, Brian, now 6, is back at camp. He walks over to the food table by himself. “Is this my cup?” he politely asks his counselor. “Yes,” she replies. Brian pours himself a glass of fruit punch. “Thank you,” he says, as his counselor beams. The exchange was a minor miracle for Brian, but it is what Camp Ramapo is all about. The sleep-away camp’s special program (“Mild Month”) for 92 troubled 4- to 6-year-olds is believed to be the only program of its kind....

PERCENTAGE OF ADULTS WITH SELECT EATING HABITS 1985 1996 2000* Three meals a day 33% 24% 21% Three meals a day 18 25 28 plus snacks Two meals a day 19 26 29 plus snacks SOURCE: ROPER STARCH WORLDWIDE INC. *NEWSWEEK PROJECTION

Amber seemed to blow in from tabloid Central Casting–complete with a tempestuous romantic past and the obligatory nude pictures–reviving cable interest in the story just when it seemed to be flagging. But is her time on the stage proportionate to her value as a witness? While prosecutors aren’t talking much about their line of attack, Amber fits neatly into their scenario of a discontented husband panicked at his impending fatherhood....

Take, for example, Hungary. By 2024, the Shanghai-based Fudan University is set to open a new campus in Budapest. The move comes after power has changed hands in Washington, moving U.S. policy away from former President Donald Trump’s strategic interest in Central Europe to the Biden administration’s bet on Berlin, Paris and Moscow. Following a series of Chinese infrastructure investments in the country, the new Fudan campus marks the next step in Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s Eastern Opening economic policy and his push to increase foreign direct investments and strengthen trade relations, primarily with China....

From day one, Milosevic thought the alliance would crumble; that Italy would not allow its bases to be used; that Greece would split away; that the Russians would run to his aid. But as the campaign moved on, NATO resolve strengthened. We succeeded because, with President Clinton’s strong leadership, we kept Europe and the United States together. Milosevic finally understood that we simply were not going to go away. And nor will we go away until the agreement on paper is translated into reality on the ground....

The Jewish community is justifiably hyper-sensitive about the topic of the Holocaust. More than one-third of world Jewry was murdered by the Nazi regime. So, flippant comments about the topic raise the ire of the Jewish community—and good people from around the world. As many commentators have jumped to explain, Whoopi’s claim that “the Holocaust isn’t about race” is simply false. The very basis of the Holocaust was Hitler’s theory of Aryan racial supremacy, set forth in his manifesto Mein Kampf and expounded upon in his Nuremberg Laws of 1935, and in various other writings and speeches....

DICKEY : The Israeli airstrike on Syria may have targeted a nuclear facility supplied by North Korea. What do you have on that? ELBARADEI : We have zilch on that. We would be happy to investigate it if anybody has any information that is nuclear related, but today we have nothing. Is the speculation about impending military action against Iran hurting or helping efforts at a negotiated settlement? We still have issues that we need to clarify in Iran....

The two companies are getting bulk discounts on the computers through a San Francisco start-up called PeoplePC, which will funnel employees toward online partners like E*trade and Buy.com, which then share revenue from the resulting transactions and fees. PeoplePC CEO Nick Grouf says the deals mark the beginning of the “boundary-less organization,” where information flows seamlessly up and down the corporate ladder. So will other big companies jump on board?...

Still, peace negotiators in Geneva were claiming a victory of sorts. After recognizing that they couldn’t count on NATO airstrikes, the Muslims returned to the talks, hoping for a better deal on paper. The international mediators themselves appeared to be sick of dealing with an intractable war and were now impatiently trying to impose peace. They presented the Serbs, Croats and Muslims with a 10-day deadline to approve a redrawn map of Bosnia-or face war without end....

The maneuvers in this dogfight shadow the intense politics of the global defense industry. Boeing has launched its war-tested F-15 against the cutting-edge but untested European Typhoon and French-built Rafale. The winner will grab a commanding place in the post-cold-war arms market. Defeat is almost unthinkable to Boeing, because U.S. companies have dominated fighter sales to South Korea. A victory for Eurofighter would be critical to the aim of the year-old European aerospace consortium European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS) to challenge American defense contractors....

Next month Andersen’s Web company, Powerful Media, will launch Inside.com, the most anticipated journalism venture since what’s-her-name introduced Talk. Using $25 million of painlessly raised cash and a staff plucked from Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone and The Wall Street Journal, it will attempt to combine savvy reporting with databases so voluminous that no executive whose livelihood is books, music, movies, television or the media will be able to drink his or her morning latte without logging on....

There was a time when Cheney’s presence in the White House was regarded as reassuring. With his thin record on foreign affairs and national security, George W. Bush seemed a little callow when he took office. Cheney, the former White House chief of staff under Gerald Ford and Defense secretary under the first President Bush, was a gruff, taciturn old hand who looked as if he were comfortable sleeping in a bomb shelter....

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Proposition 99 has never cost the state a dime. The 1988 initiative raised cigarette taxes by 25 cents a pack and placed the proceeds in a half dozen dedicated accounts. Most of the $550 million generated each year supports medical services for the poor. But the law reserves 5 percent of the revenue for tobacco-related research and 20 percent for educational programs to discourage smoking. The most visible is a $16 million-a-year media campaign designed to counter the cigarette companies’ better-funded promotions....

Small children, and others who don’t care which corporations own which characters, may come to differentiate the parks thusly: Universal–for better or worse, depending upon your taste–is the scarier place. On Kongfrontation, the King himself attacks your tram, blasts you with his hot banana breath, then throws the vehicle, at “gravity speed,” toward the street below. On the Jaws ride, you witness a boatload of “tourists” going to a watery grave, get rammed and tossed violently by a toothy Great White; then you see the shark blown to bits of bloody sushi....