Judgment Calls

[Thumb Up]To novelist Stephen King, for donating $1 million to his hometown of Bangor, Maine, so that the city can construct a Little League baseball field.

[Thumb Up]To the Cannondale Corporation, manufacturer of bicycle equipment, for promising to give 50 cents from the sale of each of its new water bottles to the Rails-To-Trails Conservancy, an organization devoted to converting abandoned railways into recreational trails.

[Thumb Down]To the F�d�ration Internationale Amateur de Cyclismes, the governing body for cycling, for failing to sanction the 11-day, 588-mile Ore-Ida Women's Challenge because the federation is opposed to women cycling more than 60 kilometers (37.2 miles) per day.