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Local scoreboard
; ...schools: Boys basketball State regional tournament games scheduled Tuesday (Class AAA), Wednesday (Class A) and Thursday (Class AA). See regional schedule box elsewhere in sports section. Girls basketball State tournament scheduled Wednesday-Saturday at the Charleston...
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CRITIC'S CHOICE
; ...has run a student workshop at the village of Koshirakura some 200km north of Tokyo. Now the subject of an exhibition at the AA (see picture), it began when the regional prefecture identified Koshirakura as a 'marginalised village' in need of revitalisation...
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Like a lava lamp, `Volcano' is silly yet fun
; ...relief chief Tommy Lee Jones has sent all its victims, including his daughter, Gaby Hoffman. His problems are two: how to block lava rolling down a busy shopping district from heading into a nearby neighborhood, and how to divert it from the hospital into...
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Fitch Affirms Aegon Americas IFS at 'AA+'; Outlook Stable.
; ...American operations (Aegon Americas). The Rating Outlook is Stable. Fitch affirmed Aegon N.V.'s Issuer Default Rating (IDR) of 'AA' (see separate release published today). In addition, Fitch has affirmed Transamerica 's IDR of 'AA', Aegon Funding Company 's senior...
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Agencies assign Lloyd's 'A' rating. (Lloyd's marketplace receives first claims-paying rates)
; ...rating after A++ and A+, while S&P assigned the market a rating of A+ (Good), its fifth highest rating after AAA,AA+,AA, and AA-. (See the chart on page 66 for examples of security ratings from other market players.) Also released last week was a statement from...
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Lavas and life.
; ...flows with higher silica content than basalts give rise to blocky flows that are similar to a'a but lack spiny projections. Block lava flows are rare because such magma usually erupts explosively. In a highly viscous magma, gas bubbles are unable to escape...
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A. L. reports: Chicago White Sox
; ...any time. The club also signed RHP Jose Paniagua, who was a key part of the Mariners' bullpen in 2001, and sent him to Class AA. SEE A DIFFERENT GAME: DH Frank Thomas says he has regained his power because he is trusting his hands more on inside pitches. Thomas...
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Reader's poem; HAPPINESS.(Features)
; ...gerroff the bus, am ower the moon The air is still, the place is warm Is me ind hor waak arm in arm Up Northumberland Street aa see the Haymarket Aa niwor bring the car cos there's neewhere ti park it Then ower Percy Street ti the Oxfam shop Ind here wor lass...
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Winfield makes the cut, stays at Class AA
; ...us in for the next four years." Winfield, with 625 students in grades 9 to 11, becomes the largest school competing in Class AA. (See list, Page 2B.) The new classification counts students in grades 9 to 11, including ninth-graders in feeder schools. The current...
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Cincinnati
; ...also throws a slider and a split-- finger. He used all three pitches as he averaged 9.5 strikeouts per nine innings in Class AA. SEE A DIFFERENT GAME: Even though he had hit three homers in his previous two games and the Reds were playing at Enron Field, OF...
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