| Filling Dontrelle's shoes _ Marlins' Miller will try
The Florida Marlins' never-ending, attendance-deflating cycle of purging payroll and revamping the roster reaps an occasional gem, and Andrew Miller could be one. The 6-foot-6 left-hander looks impressive merely throwing bullpen sessions this week at spring training. He delivers a darting fastball with a fluid motion, which makes him quite a contrast to herky-jerky Dontrelle Willis, the pitcher Miller will try to replace in the rotation. "I've got a great opportunity," the 22-year-old Miller said. "I'm going to try and take it." He was one of six players acquired by Florida in the December trade that sent Willis and slugger Miguel Cabrera to the Detroit Tigers. The Marlins made the deal hoping Miller is ready for a starting role less than two years after he was taken by the Tigers as the sixth overall pick in the 2006 draft.
Nanotech Filter Delivers Drinking Water
The researchers also gave the nanoparticles a negative charge. That's because impurities in water, including salt, organic matter and bacteria, also have negative charges. Try to put two negatively charged objects together and they will repel each other just like the same two polar ends of magnets. Laboratory tests showed that the new membranes demanded 50 percent less energy than conventional membranes. Such energy efficiency could reduce the total expense of desalinated water by as much as 25 percent. .
Wales see familiarity breeding success as Gatland opts for 13 Ospreys
The previous record was set in 1948 when Wales went to Twickenham armed with 10 Cardiff players, all of whom survived for two more games, but in those days the selectors had a working base of 16 clubs rather than the present format of four regions and an English outpost. .
Dramatic 'Heavy Hitter' ads now considered OK
Members of a local Boy Scout troop appear in an advertisement for Las Vegas lawyer Glen Lerner that ran during the Super Bowl. The boy on the left portrays a young Lerner, supposedly honing his "Heavy Hitter" skills to defend a boy whose nose was bloodied by a bully.
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