Geography

Selling high is what Billy Bean does best (The Sporting News via Yahoo! News)

9 May 2008

On the same day San Francisco's ultra high-priced lefthander Barry Zito lasted five innings and dropped to 0-7 in a loss at Pittsburgh, St. Louis shut down high-priced lefthander Mark Mulder for about two weeks because of renewed complications in his two-year struggle with shoulder problems.

Stories About Real Lives -- Both Animal and Human (Washington Post)

9 May 2008

In his newest book, How I Learned Geography (Farrar Straus Giroux, $16.95; ages 4-8), Caldecott medalist Uri Shulevitz recalls how his family fled the Nazis in Warsaw and ended up in the Central Asian city of Turkestan.

STATEN ISLAND TURNING ON ITS HOMETOWN ZERO (New York Post)

9 May 2008

CUT off from the bulk of the city by geography, morality and the $12 blow dry, Staten Island is more small town than functioning borough. And so it was yesterday that the fall of Vito Fossella, the man affectionately known hereabouts as Don Vito - a homegrown politician and full-time skunk - was viewed with equal parts disgust and betrayal. "You're freakin' kidding me!" exclaimed Stephanie ...