In, the American League started seven future Hall of Famers: Rickey Henderson ( CF ), George Brett ( 3B ), Eddie Murray ( 1B ), Cal Ripken ( SS ), Dave Winfield ( RF ), Jim Rice ( LF ), and Carlton Fisk ( C ).

Borlaug's work with wheat led to the development of high-yield semi-dwarf indica and japonica rice cultivars at the International Rice Research Institute, started by the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations, and at China's Hunan Rice Research Institute.

The contest was started in 1982 by Professor Scott E. Rice of the English Department at San Jose State University and is named for English novelist and playwright Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, author of the much-quoted first line " It was a dark and stormy night ".

Rice started his senior season as a projected mid-first-round selection, but his stock rose to the point where he was selected # 4 overall in the 1989 NBA Draft due to his record-breaking performance in the NCAA Tournament.

Things started slow in Houston as Rice was still on the mend, rehabbing from his foot injury.

Rice was born in Ireland at a time when Catholics faced oppression under Penal Laws enforced by the British authorities, though reforms started in 1778 when he was a teenager.

The first outside mediation effort started on 17 May when Rwanda ’ s Vice-President Paul Kagame came to Addis Ababa, soon followed by US Under-Secretary of State for African Affairs Susan Rice.

Shown one of these, Matthias Rice, who ran a fancy woodworking business in Boston, started manufacturing the puzzle sometime in December 1879 and convinced a " Yankee Notions " fancy goods dealer to sell them under the name of " Gem Puzzle ".

Eventually, engineer Casey Rice joined Idful and started working with Phair and Wood as she had no band of her own.

Morrill started a law practice in Augusta ; his partners were James W. Bradbury and Richard D. Rice.

In 2004, Rice started on the pole and won the rain-shortened Indianapolis 500, his first Indycar race victory.

Rice started his 2006 season in the following race at St. Petersburg, Florida.

In the spring of 1995, a disgruntled student started a fire in the Rice Memorial Center that gutted much of the MOB band hall, as well as campus hang-out Willy's Pub and other parts of the RMC.

Just two minutes into the added half-hour, Heighway received the ball wide on his left flank from substitute Peter Thompson ( ironically, the man whose place Heighway had ultimately taken ) and started a run towards the Arsenal penalty area, with Gunners full back Pat Rice tracking his run but unwilling to put in a tackle.

In 2004 Dassulle started his own label, Mind Control Records ( also referencing Rice ).

While there, she became interested in the writings of Anton LaVey and Boyd Rice and started to suffer from depression.

With this change, the band started the tradition of wearing colorful formal wear on the field — something that has since been emulated by every Ivy League band at one point or another, as well as those of Stanford, Virginia, Rutgers, and Rice.

After a two-year masters studies in Rice University as a pre-formed quartet, the T ’ ang Quartet started their professional career in 1999 with unanimity of purpose: to break new ground by extending the sheer fun and enjoyment of classical music to a larger audience, as well as setting new standards of artistic achievement.

He has been a member of the Juilliard School faculty since 1991, and, in 2006, he also started to teach at Rice University.

In one especially infamous incident, on June 18, 1977, in the middle game of what would prove to be a three-game series sweep by the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park, Martin pulled Jackson off the field ( replacing him with Paul Blair ) in mid-inning for failing to hustle and catch a shallow outfield fly ball by Jim Rice, allowing Rice to reach second base.

A disgruntled Rice was eventually traded to the New York Knicks, where he would take on a sixth-man role on the team and provide the Knicks with well needed support off the bench.

The scene of lemmings leaping off a cliff in White Wilderness was used as political metaphor in a campaign ad promoting Andrew Monroe Rice, an Oklahoma candidate in the 2008 US Senate race.

They have also worn baseball uniforms and other humorous costumes, appearing in the game Rice Bowl Down Hill where they would try and put the contestants off by singing a very annoying chant, ' unda unda unda ' as well as Bridge Ball and other games.

Rice dishes such as ochazuke and noodle dishes such as yakisoba are sometimes eaten at the end to round off a drinking session.

Lt. Matt Rice of the Faulkner County Sheriff's Office reported that Johnson was found dead about 10 a. m. Saturday, February 13, 2010, at his home off Beaverfork Lake with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the chest.

Ye Cracke is a pub in Rice Street off Hope Street, Liverpool, England.

Moulded Plastics Company, Dunlop, had its UK head office and manufacturing plant based on what is now the Cavendish Retail Park ( off Rice Lane, opposite Walton Hospital ) until the mid-1990s.

On December 13, 2004, the PPR Group signed off on the sale of its subsidiary Rexel to the investment consortium Ray Investment, composed mainly of Clayton Dubilier & Rice, Eurazeo and Merrill Lynch Global Private Equity ( as known as BAML Capital Partners since 2009 ).

Upon joining the Redskins, Ellard set off on a blistering pace for the 1994 season, ending it with 1, 397 yards, 102 behind league-leader Jerry Rice.

In Freedom Park, located off Rice Road, across from Barton Field, is a display of two sections of the Berlin Wall, as well as a sign from the wall.

He batted. 333 in the World Series against the Boston Red Sox and led off for the Mets in the now famous tenth inning of Game 6 with a fly out to Jim Rice.

One day during his freshman year, Roberto was playing in Barrio San Anton when a part-time employee of the Sello Rojo Rice Company happened to drive by.

On their opening possession, Denver was forced to punt after three plays and the 49ers scored on their ensuing drive, marching 66 yards and scoring on a 20-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Joe Montana to receiver Jerry Rice.

Then on the third play of the drive, 49ers quarterback Steve Young threw a 44-yard touchdown pass to Jerry Rice.

After the turnover, Young lead his team on a 10-play, 67-yard drive, aided by a 22-yard pass interference penalty against Darrien Gordon on 3rd and 14, to score on his 5th touchdown pass, a 15-yard completion to Rice.

He was well known to television audiences as a team captain on the long-running BBC2 series Call My Bluff, and did voice-overs for advertisements, including Cadbury's Fruit & Nut chocolate (" Everyone's a Fruit and Nut case "), Batchelors ' Savoury Rice (" Every grain will drive them insane!

Starting the 2007-08 season, Rice signed to drive for A1 Team USA in the A1 Grand Prix international racing series.

With a swift turn outside Heighway gained a yard on Rice and hit a low drive into the net past Arsenal goalkeeper Bob Wilson who had committed the cardinal goalkeeping sin of coming out too far from his near post to anticipate a cross, thereby leaving a gap.

The Senators ' Sam Rice ran after an Earl Smith line drive hit into right center field.

New York turned the ball over on downs with their next possession, and Gannon once again went to work, completing a 50-yard strike to Jerry Porter and finishing the drive with a 9-yard touchdown pass to Rice, increasing the Raiders lead to 24-10.

On San Francisco's first drive of the game, a holding penalty on offensive lineman Guy McIntyre nullified a 63-yard touchdown completion from quarterback Steve Young to wide receiver Jerry Rice, and the 49ers had to punt.

A 21-yard reception by Rice sparked a 49ers drive to the Cowboys 10-yard line where Cofer made a 28-yard field goal to tie the game with less than two minutes left in the second quarter.

On the 49ers ' first drive of the game, wide receiver Jerry Rice caught a very long pass from quarterback Joe Montana and appeared to be on his way for a 50-yard touchdown ; however, the future hall of famer inexplicably fumbled the football into the Giants end zone without being touched.