Although 795m songs were transferred to music players, burned to blank discs and the like, that was not enough to cover the loss to recording companies of falling CD sales.A zesty rise in the price of oranges was forecast after a cold snap in California's Central Valley damaged a large part of the crop.
Sure, but asking existential questions seems not only reasonable but also necessary when it comes to a game in which players burned broken bats in garbage drums to stay warm, and family members called hospitals searching for loved ones who should have come home hours earlier.
A player is burned when the burning-man on the outside team catches the ball and says, "burned" while they are running and is not inside one of the cones.
At 29, when most players have burned out and retired, Ms. Bammer is entering the United States Open, which begins Monday, ranked No. 29 in the world, a tribute to her perseverance and the commitment her boyfriend made.
The team's owner, Dean Griffing, who was clearly no Art Rooney, bought them second hand, on the cheap; players ritually burned pairs of the socks at a bonfire in 1962.
How could a player who burned himself out on drugs, alcohol and an apparent inability to cope with life beyond the final whistle be the guide and mentor to players who appeared lost and disillusioned by their own national federation?
If a player is burned, they have to go back to the previous cone.
Player burn-out was the game's burning issue at the start of the year, but it was the likes of New Zealand and Australia, who did not load their squads with many thirtysomethings, who found themselves booking early flights home.
Birmingham manager Alex McLeish has admitted he is worried by the prospect of player burn-out as his side fight against relegation.
The tacit admission from England's vice-captain that, debilitated by a virus, he could no longer cope with the international treadmill, will further fuel demands that the International Cricket Council adopts a less dismissive attitude to concerns about player burn-out.
The decision to rest Andrew Flintoff from Sunday's non-game - and mini-riot - at Guwahati was part of a wider scheme to ensure that player burn-out, one of the biggest concerns in the international game today, is kept to manageable proportions as England prepare for one of the most intensive years in their history.
