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...just won the Cy Young. The one bright spot of an otherwise awful season of baseball in Toronto got his reward Monday night when Roger Clemens won his fourth Cy Young award. He may never have been more deserving, when you consider that his 2.05 ERA was the lowest for an American League Cy Young winner since Ron Guidry put up a 1.74 in 1978. And in winning 21 games, Clemens alone accounted for nearly 30 percent of the Blue Jays' victories, making the Rocket well worth the $24.75 million the team paid to get him away from the Boston...
...Employment Cost Index, which the Fed chairman watches very closely, rose 0.8% in the third quarter of 1997, the same as the previous quarter. It's a signal that labor costs for businesses are not picking up even though the unemployment rate hovers at the lowest level in a generation...
...Apple, a historian at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and author of Vitamania: Vitamins in American Culture. In 1989 the recommended dietary allowance for folic acid was cut from 400 micrograms for all adults to 200 micrograms for men and 180 micrograms for women, because that was the lowest amount that would stave off a nutritional deficiency. At the same time, however, new studies were showing that higher doses of folic acid could prevent crippling birth defects during pregnancy and ward off strokes and heart attacks in older adults. "The recommended levels came down," Apple notes, "just...
There are dumb movies, and then there are dumb movies. Making slapstick, the lowest form of humor, successful requires enormous skill and talent. Rowan Atkinson's character, Mr. Bean, whose inspired idiocy traces a direct descent from Charlie Chaplin, infuses new intelligence into unintelligent comedy. It's really too bad that such a well-wrought dumb character finds himself in such a stock dumb movie...
...Traders also were put on edge Friday morning by a Labor Department employment report for October showing that non-farm payrolls unexpectedly increased sharply to 284,000. The unemployment rate dropped to 4.7 percent, the lowest level in 24 years...