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...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...
Some people are off racing the first time they get on a pair of blades and it probably helps if you know how to skate beforehand, but rollerblading is not rocket science. Anyone can do it with a minimal amount of practice...
...distressed by President Clinton's line-item veto last week of the $30 million that Congress had allocated for the Clementine II project next year. Clementine is a spacecraft that was to be launched in 1999 to approach an asteroid named Toutatis and send a camera-equipped rocket barreling toward it. The missile, after taking close-up pictures of Toutatis, would smash into its surface while Clementine recorded the impact flash and analyzed any ejected material. The goal was not only to test our ability to rendezvous with an asteroid but also to determine Toutatis' composition and mechanical strength--important...
...matter how much money they have to work with. Leonard Hamm, the new chief of Baltimore's school police, says he has seen firsthand how a talented principal can reverse the decline of a school. "I'm an overly simplistic guy," he says, "but man, it's not rocket science. It takes one person saying, 'This isn't going to happen...
...they don't have full-body tattoos or multiple piercings. There is barely a dreadlock to be seen; the average age of the expo attendee is 38, and the average wallet is fat. After all, this is the same bunch that has caused sales of natural products to rocket from $4.2 billion in 1990 to $14 billion in 1996, and sales of organic foods to rise from $1 billion in 1990 to $3.5 billion in 1996. So after 15 years of staying put in San Francisco, where it was first organized by a dozen or so holistic merchants, the expo...