17 Hopefuls Eye Million XIV Field

The news Friday from Arlington International Racecourse was that17 horses were still in the lineup for Million XIV Aug. 28 and 10fillies and mares were set for the $500,000 Beverly D., to be runAug. 27.

In addition, Holy Bull and Tabasco Cat, the two leading3-year-olds, will meet in today's $750,000 Travers at Saratoga.Arlington will simulcast the 1 1/4-mile championship race that drewfour other horses.

Both the Million, at 1 1/4 miles, and the Beverly D. at 13/16 miles could be rated as championship events. Hardly a top horseis missing from the list of probable starters.

According to my sources, Hollywood Wildcat, one of the …

Japan central bank keeps interest rate near zero

TOKYO (AP) — Japan's central bank on Friday kept its key interest rate unchanged at nearly zero and extended by six months an emergency loan program for disaster-hit regions.

The Bank of Japan's nine-member policy board voted unanimously at a two-day meeting to maintain the overnight call rate target at zero to 0.1 percent.

It described the world's No. 3 economy as "picking up" and predicted an eventual return to a moderate recovery despite concerns about the health of the global economy.

Industrial production figures last week showed that output had nearly recovered to the levels recorded before the March 11 earthquake and tsunami devastated northeastern Japan. Exports …

Haeger strengthens case for Dodgers rotation spot

Knuckleballer Charlie Haeger moved closer to earning the fifth spot in the Los Angeles Dodgers' rotation, throwing 5 1-3 scoreless innings in a 3-1 victory over the Seattle Mariners on Saturday.

Haeger gave up just two hits, both singles by Ichiro Suzuki. He struck out five …

Capital Hill, cont.; Cubs lefty has picked up where he left off in '06

He is "king of the hill" now, less than a year after the groundseemed to be crumbling beneath him.

Rich Hill takes the mound for the Cubs tonight against theMilwaukee Brewers as the major leagues' hottest pitcher, his 3-0record and minuscule 0.41 ERA in stark contrast to his team'swayward start. The lefty's mastery dates back even farther, going 6-3 with a 2.91 ERA over the final two months of last season.

Before that? An 0-4 record and 9.31 ERA in a three-week stintthat ended with a May 20 start against the White Sox, in which Hilllasted only four innings and drew stinging comments from Sox managerOzzie Guillen for coming to the defense of Cubs catcher …

The Two Motor Domains of KIF3A/B Coordinate for Processive Motility and Move at Different Speeds

ABSTRACT

KIF3A/B, a kinesin involved in intraflagellar transport and Golgi trafficking, is distinctive because it contains two nonidentical motor domains. Our hypothesis is that the two heads have distinct functional properties, which are tuned to maximize the performance of the wild-type heterodimer. To test this, we investigated the motility of wild-type KIF3A/B heterodimer and chimaeric KIF3A/A and KIF3B/B homodimers made by splicing the head of one subunit to the rod and tail of the other. The first result is that KIF3A/B is processive, consistent with its transport function in cells. Secondly, the KIF3B/B homodimer moves at twice the speed of the wild-type motor but has …

Overseas Filipino workers unaffected by crisis

Most of the more than 8 million Filipinos working overseas have not been affected yet by the global financial storm, but a contingency plan has been cobbled together for possible layoffs, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo said Wednesday.

The workers are regarded as the country's financial backbone, with the earnings they send home _ US$14.45 billion last year _ accounting for 10 percent of gross domestic product in the impoverished Southeast Asian nation of 90 million people.

The bulk of them are in the Middle East, Asia, Europe and the United States, mostly working as nurses, laborers, construction workers and maids.

Arroyo told a Manila …

Friends Life t20: Can Essex [...]

Friends Life t20: Can Essex qualify? John Hardy, 43, a Ford'semployee from Barking, said: "I think it's a bit of an ask butnothing's impossible. I like Ravi Bopara, I know he hasn't done itrecently but I think he could make the difference."

Paul Adams, 49, a Ford's employee from Rainham said: "They shouldgo through. When you see the players that Essex have got, on paperthey have probably got one of the best Twenty 20 …