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In "Sons of Baseball," author Mark Braff examines the lives of people who grew up with MLB fathers. They have plenty of lessons for all parents.

Morimura's book about Unit 731, a secret biological warfare branch of the Imperial Army, helped force Japan to confront its wartime past.

Writer Seiichi Morimura helped force a reckoning upon his country with his 1981 exposé of Unit 731, a secret biological warfare branch of the Imperial Army that subjected thousands of people in occupied China to sadistic medical experiments.

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

Archinect profile for James Schmidt.

Briefs on local businesspeople

Michael S. Abrams its chief financial officer. In alignment with the company’s succession plan, Abrams joins Arch’s financial team in the role previously held by Richard Davis. Davis will remain with the company during a transition period, which will end on June 30, after which he will support the company in a consulting role through Dec. 31. Abrams has more than 25 years of experience as a chief financial officer to numerous public and private companies; principal investor; investment ba...

Paul Brassil of Medfield has joined the company as senior vice president/chief information officer and will oversee PCU’s information technology and digital innovation efforts. Brassil has more than 25 years of experience in the information technology leadership field with entities such as Commonwealth Medicine (a division of UMass Medical School), the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, EMC Corp. and Siemens IT Solutions and Services Inc. He holds an MS in computer information systems from Ben...

ALLIANCE  Police said they seized illegal drugs they believe were being sold as they found three people hiding in an Alliance home Sunday night, according to Stark County Jail record. Investigators said they searched for a half hour before they found the three suspects: a wanted man accused of raping two women in October, another man they say has been selling methamphetamine and marijuana and the woman who has a protection order against him. John W. Powell, 30, of South Arch Street, has be...

In the 1800s, humans were busy scurrying across the globe prying into the blank spots on the map, why? Because, of course, they were there. From the frozen poles of the Earth to its darkest jungles, we had a guy on it. Here in the United States, the transcontinental railroad had opened up the nation. But, despite nearly a century of poking around by native peoples, Spanish padres, men military, mountain and Mormon, there remained one big question mark over the terrain through which flowed the ...