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...year 2025, and some things haven't changed. The sky is still blue. The Dow is poised to set another record. And Jose Rodriguez (Michigan State, class of '04) has just learned that he has colon cancer. But he's not too concerned. Thanks to the genetic revolution that swept over the pharmaceutical industry 30 years earlier, scientists have developed a variety of anticancer drugs that work far better, and with fewer side effects, than the old poison-and-burn treatments of the late 20th century...
...record by 1.6%; McGwire catapulted the same record forward by a nearly unfathomable 14.75%. Here is what a 14.75% improvement over some other well-known marks would yield: Someone would drive in 218 runs. The mile record would be 3:11.29. Even so hyperthyroid a measure as the Dow Jones industrial average would leap ahead to the vicinity of 10,100. In a sport whose progress is characteristically Darwinian in both style and speed, McGwire not only collapsed the decades, he invented a new algebra...
...consecutive-game streak quietly, sitting out a game unannounced at the end of the season, when SportsCenter was tuned to McGwire, Sosa and the Yanks. Ripken was healthy, but knew it was time to give someone else a chance to play. Before he started The Streak, the Dow Jones was 819.54. Worry...
...provide some comparison, the S&P 500 Index, a commonly used benchmark of stock performance, has increased by 18 percent since the beginning of the year. The Dow Jones Industrial Average has increased by 10 percent...
Will today's giddy economic boom give way to a brutal postholiday hangover? Last week the Dow Jones stock average slipped on confusing news of megamergers by some companies and thousands of layoffs at others. It then recovered slightly after the Department of Labor announced that the November unemployment rate dipped...