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Curlin Bucking History at Kentucky Derby

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Kentucky Derby purists cling to these truths: a horse can't win if he didn't run as a 2-year-old or if he comes into the race with three or fewer career starts.

It's been 125 years since Apollo won after skipping his 2-year-old season, and not since Regret in 1915 has such a lightly seasoned horse worn the blanket of red roses.

Arkansas Derby winner Curlin - unbeaten in three career races - tries to overcome both those obstacles in Saturday's 133rd Derby.

All that history and negativity working against his horse doesn't bother trainer Steve Asmussen.

"We're not running against history," he said Monday. "We're running against who they …

DOING BUSINESS ON LINE.

The dot-com phenomenon has made its way into the beverage alcohol industry, and there's no telling what the future will hold.

It was only a matter of time. First came the wave of dot-cam start-ups that attracted millions of dollars in venture capital, strange ads on television and a fair amount of interest from consumers, if only far the novelty of ordering a product from a virtual store. Then, just as many of those ventures were finding themselves squeezed by competition, along came the next wave of dot-cams, this time aimed at helping businesses source products more efficiently, streamline order processing and in some cases cut out middlemen.

So, it was no surprise when e-commerce came to the beverage alcohol industry In the past year, about a half dozen business-to-business (B2B) sites serving the wine and spirits industry have gone on-line on the Internet. And there may well be more soon.

What the sites purport to do is save retailers time and money, and expand distributor and supplier customer bases. In practice, all of the sites have a long way to go before they are universally available to retailers, but they are beginning to prove themselves, customer by customer.

How They Work

Each site promotes its point of difference -- technology, industry knowledge or neutrality, for example -- but they are more alike than different. In essence, these sites are extensive product catalogs that retailers can access at their leisure from their back-office or home computers. They can use these catalogs to obtain information about specific products and place orders through wholesalers. Right off the bat, that saves retailers the time of having to comb through several printed price books or catalogs to find products. But it's the bells and whistles on these sites that will likely make e-commerce attractive not only to retailers, but to wholesalers and suppliers as well.

"This is a relatively new …

Ear buds blast high-volume irritants.(Life-Style)

Byline: ERIN CARLSON - Associated Press

Dave Legeret silently fumed as the man seated beside him on the plane blasted techno music on his iPod at full volume.

"It was kind of rude," recalled Legeret, 38, a jewelry designer from Sandy Hook, Conn., who was forced to listen while flying from New York City to Disney World with his wife and 8-year-old son. "Listen to it at a level that just you can hear it and everyone else doesn't have to be subject to it."

Apple Inc.'s ubiquitous iPod is best known as an instrument of solitude - unless the user ignores standards of etiquette by invading the eardrums of fellow commuters, officemates or other innocent bystanders. Then it starts to get annoying. Especially when you're stuck …