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Investors are often caught flat-footed when markets slide. In 2001-02, deflation was the fear of the day, but few investors at the time saw the opportunity in commodities, which were going for a fraction of today's prices. Today investors are obsessed with inflation, while government and top...
Roger Maris, Jr., remains adamant in his belief that his father is baseball's rightful home run king. The former Yankee slugger's record of 61 homers in 1961 stood for 37 years, until both Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa passed it (with 70 and 66 homers respectively) in the...
> "What Mark [McGwire] did was phenomenal," the younger Maris said in an interview with TIME. "What Barry [Bonds] did was incredible, too. But it appears they had help. If that's what happened, then it's hard to compare apples and oranges."
The climate, however, has changed considerably. In 2005 a resolution was passed by the state senate in North Dakota, Maris's home state, to recognize Maris as baseball's single-season home run champ, and Democratic Sen. Byron Dorgan has sponsored a similar resolution in the U.S. Senate, citing the...
Diane Dobry, 49, grew up hearing legends of her great-grandfather, a Hungarian nobleman reduced to managing a baroness's stable. Later, as an instructor of media studies at Queens College in New York City, Diane visited Hungary several times to do research and wanted to share the experience with...