of the baseball fans especially those in Milwaukee, the great Brewers organization, and my teammates,” said Braun, a five-time All-Star who has won five Silver Slugger awards.

“I am glad to have this matter behind me once and for all, and I cannot wait to get back to the game I love.”

Braun, sidelined early this season by a stiff neck and later by an inflamed nerve near his right thumb, had a .298 batting average with nine home runs and 38 runs batted for a Brewers (41-56) team that is in last place in the NL Central.

He was suspended for 50 games by MLB after he tested positive for elevated testosterone levels in October 2011 but that ban was overturned four months later after he successfully appealed.

It was theSOME SCIENTISTS SEE their work make headlines. But MIT meteorologist Edward Lorenz watched his work become a catch phrase. Lorenz, who died in April, created one of the most beguiling and evocative notions ever to leap from the lab into popular culture: the "butterfly effect," the concept that small events can have large, widespread consequences. The name stems from Lorenz's suggestion that a massive storm might have its roots in the faraway flapping of a tiny butterfly's wings.

Translated into mass culture, the butterfly effect has become a metaphor for the existence of seemingly insignificant moments that alter history and shape destinies. Typically unrecognized at first, they create threads of cause and effect that appear obvious in retrospect, changing the course of a human life or rippling through the