To avoid letting them know you're thinking of buying them a new pair of pajamas, you might want to measure them completely all at once and tell them you need the info just in case you find a bargain at the mall somewhere. Measuring their feet is a dead giveaway. Take a look at the current shoes and note where the toes reach and where the wear on the shoe is occurring.What that means is that with the time already elapsed, the maximum payment to Wang is $306,000. Wang finished second in Cy Young balloting in 2006, but has not logged more than 100 innings since 2007. He has a respectable 6132 record and a 4.26 ERA in 130 games.

"A galactic Internet might be in use already, but by aliens, not by humans yet," says Italy's Claudio Maccone, writing in the current Acta Astronautica journal. Maccone is a cochairman of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) permanent committee of the International Academy of Astronautics. In his wideranging report which ponde