Kuroda gets only 4 outs against Phillies

Hiroki Kuroda's first start of the postseason for Los Angeles was a bitterly brief one.

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School Board Flip-Flops on Flip-Flops

The school board in this suburb between Seattle and Tacoma has flip-flopped on flip-flops. The board voted Tuesday to drop a proposed flip-flop ban on grounds that it would be impossible to enforce.

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Poll. Are some critics in life and in general just jealous people?

It seems to me that in life and with movies and TV shows and even on blogs, that some people see that other people are attracting a lot of positive attention and that some of those people seem to exist just to criticize the other people.

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Five weeks into the new TV season, it's clear that few new shows are tanking in the ratings. But breakout hits are elusive, too.

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As nouns go, "flop" is a good one—short, peppy, and to the point.

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Bad cars come and go, but flops are forever. By the same token, in the automotive world, a flop isn't necessarily a bad car.

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With critics and sofa kings churning out their lists for best and worst films of 2007 like Jonah Hill drawing dicks, let's take a look at the movies that failed to reach general expectations, whether at the box office, creatively, or both.

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After more than 10 years of newspapers slowly migrating to the Web, most have embraced the medium as their future, showing they can break news, provide audio and video extras, and give readers more space to react and rebut than ever before.

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Straight out of the UK and developed by British biochemists, the FitFlop is a sandal with a built-in "micro-wobbleboard" designed to destabilize your foot and create continuous tension in your muscles as you walk. So basically ... you get a workout while you walk.

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You've likely heard all about the successful experiments. Not just the "big bets" as Gates likes to call them, or the interesting things that happen at Microsoft Research, but projects that almost never made it to market, like J. Allard's Xbox. But what about the flops?

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Biggest Tech Flops of 2007

What product, technology, or service introduced this year will be the biggest flop and why?

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A rather fascinating list of all the shows that totally bombed on TV. Somewhat like a trip down memory lane, I'm sure you'll remember many them (although only vaguely). The Man from Atlantis? Yep... I watched it as a child. Battlestar Galactica 1980-- terrible show.

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Microsoft is a gigantic company, and wields lots of power. It also has made some real big mistakes in the past. (I would say that Vista will turn out to be a big mistake in the present, but we'll save that for another day). Remember Microsoft Bob? How about Dos 4.0? Losers.

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If it weren't for the talent of Michael Mann, a movie version of 'Miami Vice' would almost certainly be as awful as it sounds. And even with the talent of Mann, Universal is fighting negative early buzz about the film.

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