Players with 20-game hitting streaks, one season.
Players With 20-Game Hitting Streaks, One Season All streaks through the 2007 same + Jimmy Rollins put together a 36-game hitting streak at the end of the 2005 season that extended to 38 games at the start of the 2006 campaign. Player Team Year Games Hank Aaron Mil. Braves...

Elston Howard, a valuable part of Yankee world series teams: former catcher was a major contributor offensively, defensively, with the pitching staff and in the clubhouse.
"ELSTON HOWARD. HE COULD do it all. He could catch. He could play first base and the outfield. "He was a solid batter who could hit for power and drive in runs. He had all the tools. "It really makes me wonder sometimes where the...

Divided by ocean, unified by parks: an exchange program has Australians turning in their boomerangs for Boston ballfields.
Imagine you've met a representative of a native Aboriginal tribe in Australia and are taught a provoking philosophy, "A river starts with a drop of water." Or, what about standing in the center of Melbourne Cricket Grounds (MCG) on a tour with 1968 Silver Medal Olympian Peter Norman. You...

David Westfall Bates, MD: a conversation with the editor on improving patient safety, quality of care, and outcomes by using information technology.
David Bates (Figure 1) was born in Madison, Wisconsin, on June 5, 1957. Early on, his family moved to Tucson, Arizona, and he grew up there. He graduated from Stanford University in 1979 and from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1983. His internship and residencies in...

Women's challenges in university leadership: encompassed by our gender.
It was one of those pleasant receptions at the end of the academic term when most people are in a congratulatory mood. Nearing the end of my first year as dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Boston University, I was still making the rounds of first...

Here at the GCN.
An Army of Ex-Lovers: My Life at the Gay Community News by Amy Hoffman University of Massachusetts Press. 166 pages, $22.95 CURRENTLY THE EDITOR of the Women's Review of Books and a long-time political activist, Amy Hoffman has written a highly readable memoir...

A conversation with Richard Stilwell.
Talking with Richard Stilwell in a lovely room at the Fairmont Copley Plaza in Copley Square, Boston ... Leslie Holmes: You supplied me with the most wonderfully complete resume, which I suspect you put together. It is so helpful, because you read things in paragraph form and...

Disorders cause billions in losses.
A new study suggests that major mental disorders cost $193 billion a year in lost earnings. Ronald Kessler, Ph.D., a professor of health care policy at Harvard University, Boston, and his colleagues analyzed data from 4,982 respondents to the 2002 National Comorbidity Survey Replication, a nationally representative study of...

U.S. House of Representatives Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense.
Congressman John P. Murtha, chair of the U.S. House of Representatives Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense, received the Man of Vision award, presented by Schepens Eye Research Institute, for his advocacy on behalf of veterans blinded by war and for research to restore their vision. The highest honor presented annually...

Report: successful firms know how to manage/mitigate risk.
Manufacturers that can effectively manage and mitigate risks in several key areas will get more products made that conform to industry standards and experience less asset downtime, according to an analysis. Best-in-class manufacturers encountered an 11% increase in the number of products that are in compliance and...