With a bunch of versatile veterans, the Dallas Mavericks figure they can play any style of game and with any configuration of their lineup. That means they even like their chances against, say, LeBron James and Shaquille O'Neal on a night when Dirk Nowitzki is in street clothes. Seem silly? Not after the Nowitzki-less Mavs beat the Cleveland Cavaliers 102-95 Sunday night.

More than 25,000 runners, walkers and wheelchair athletes are expected to participate in this 22nd annual event.This year’s marathon route will start in Universal City near the intersection of Lankershim and Cahuenga boulevards, weave down through Hollywood on Vine Street and Rossmore Avenue to 6th Street; bolt into the heart of downtown and finally end near Flower and 5th streets.Organizers claim the L.A. Many, Eickelberg says, enter his office and announce, “My wife said I had to come.”Others see enormous successes and achievements interrupted by jarring moments of reckoning: burnout, depression, divorce, a rift with a child, hitting a wall. In Richmond and Atlanta, retailers and other business firms reported passing their cost increases through into their selling prices, and in Philadelphia and Dallas large numbers of business firms said they have raised or plan to raise their prices,” the Fed survey said.Other Fed regions reported that businesses were being more restrained in raising prices. It can be downright frightening,” he said.In his appearances, Snow carefully sticks to the administration’s Social Security talking points, a caution observers say adds to perceptions that he lacks the independence and authority of some past secretaries.”He is so careful to stay on the party line, you really don’t have to listen to him because you know what he’s going to say ahead of time,” said L. Can a cluster of light-filled meeting rooms make California a healthier place?That’s the hope of the California Endowment, a $3.7-billion fund created nine years ago to improve the health of state residents.On Thursday, the endowment officially opened the Center for Healthy Communities, an architecturally striking compound in downtown Los Angeles that offers the state’s thousands of health-related nonprofit groups a simple but potentially powerful tool: a place to gather.Ten public rooms of various sizes offer space for up to 400 people, along with support staff, the latest audiovisual equipment and soundproof translation booths.

Rob Niedermayer was credited with his sixth goal in his last 10 games.”Our guys said it hit the shaft of his stick above the top of the net,” San Jose Coach Ron Wilson said. NORTENO, PANAMA Dressed in sweaty surgical scrubs and grappling with a screaming 6-year-old girl as he pulled her abscessed tooth, dentist Jason Vogt didn’t look the part of a diplomat.But the U.S. 11 attacks, when dozens of banking and insurance companies lost their World Trade Center offices.Some steps have been taken to reduce consumption and pollution Importers can bring in only energy-efficient appliances Electric cars are exempt from duties. “We spent a lot of time working on the renovation of those categories.”Safeway began the first step in the re-branding two years ago by test-marketing its Ranchers Reserve beef, which claims to be more tender than other cuts.